Medieval women were normally denied access to public educational institutions, and so also denied the gateways to most leadership positions.
Modern scholars have therefore tended to study learned medieval women as simply anomalies, and women generally as victims.
This volume, however, argues instead for a via media .
Drawing upon manuscript and archival sources, scholars here show that more medieval women attained some form of learning than hitherto imagined, and that women with such.
D.s. Brewer Women intellectuals and leaders in the middle ages, hardcover/kathryn kerby-fulton
