Lynda Telford Livres

New B-format paperback - This fascinating book explores the status of women in medieval England, both before and after the Norman Conquest.

Reveals a bloody and turbulent period in Romes history.

A revealing history of women who were a power behind the papal throne. Engaging, controversial and sometimes illuminating.

The women of Ancient Rome, were obliged to maintain the 'Mos maiorum', the established order of things. Romulus himself was believed to have devised the almost indissoluble marriage rite, the 'Confarreatio', which put a wife under the absolute power of her husband. She could not divorce him, but he could divorce her.

From the family shrine, the Lararium, to huge public festivals, which embodied the sanctity and viability of the state itself, religion permeated every aspect of Roman life.