Medieval Single Women 0-07-147554-0 with new images and annotated

with new images and annotated x-rays to support the text

audience-centered content that drives action

Martin Williams

EAN: 9781413028850

Medieval Single Women 0-07-147554-0 with new images and annotatedThe single woman is a troubling and disruptive category. Does it denote all unmarried women, therefore creating a group which every female was part of at some stage in her life? Or, were the categories 'maiden' and 'widow' so culturally significant in late medieval England that 'single woman' was a residual category for women seen as anomalous? Was the category 'single man' used in an equivalent way and, if not, why? This study offers a way into the