A fascinating and highly readable survey.
-- Library Journal Crusader and concubine, laundress and troubadour, mystic and midwife and miniaturist, beguine and bondwoman and the bersatrix rocking the cradle of kings -- all find their rightful place in this bountiful compendium.
With vast resourcefulness and a lively (and often irreverent) eye for the creaturely real, the authors make it impossible to sustain any last lingering illusions about the Middle Ages being 'a man's world.
' -- John.
Markus Wiener Publishers Between pit and pedestal: women in the middle ages/marty williams
