A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval Life
- Author / Editor
- Labarge, Margaret Wade.
A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval Life
- Published
- Boston: Beacon, 1986.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 270 pp.
- Description
- Despite repressive laws and the misogyny of clerical writers, it appears that wives, widows, religious women, mystics, townswomen, and peasant women had more control, respect, and influence than has been thought. Labarge presents the whole social gamut, from queens to prostitutes in France, England,the Low Countries. and southern Germany, and includes women as healers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.