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What was it really like to live in the Middle Ages?
www.learner.org/exhibits/
middleages/feudal.html
Overview of feudal life, with a section on the role of women.
Was the Medieval Church Corrupt?
www.the-orb.net/non_spec/
missteps/ch11.html
Academic article looking for evidence for the common assumption that
the Church was full of sleaze in the Middle Ages.
Fornication and Adultery
www.brown.edu/Departments/
Italian_Studies/dweb/society
/sex/fornication-adultery.shtml
Study of the Church's attitudes to sex during the Middle Ages.
Sex, Society and Medieval Women
www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/
medsex/text.htm
Fascinating article that covers medieval medicine, sex and medicine, women and medicine, sex and society, virginity, courtly love, prostitution.
Books
Uppity Women of Medieval Times by Vicki Leon (Conari Press, 1997)
£12.99
Guide to 200 feisty women who lived in the Middle Ages.
Common Women: Prostitution and sexuality in medieval England by
Ruth Mazo Karras (Oxford University Press, 1998) £16.99
A controversial account of ideas about prostitution and what it meant
to be a woman in the Middle Ages.
Love in the Western World by Denis De Rougemont (Princeton University
Press, 1995) £14.95
Academic account of the evolution of Western romantic love from the medieval
courtly love tradition.
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