The book explores medieval attitudes towards children, delving into various European sources to analyze images of childhood and the different stages of development recognized in that era. It covers perspectives from both the nobility and peasantry, providing a comprehensive view of how childhood was perceived and experienced in medieval culture.
Did women really constitute a `fourth estate' in medieval society and, if so, in what sense? In this wide-ranging study Shulamith Shahar considers this and the whole question of the varying attitudes to women and their status in western Europe between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries.
Geschichte der Frauen in der mittelalterlichen Gesellschaft vom 12. bis 15. Jahrhundert in Westeuropa unter anderem von Edelfrauen, Städterinnen, Bäuerinnen oder als Hexen diffamierten