Have you ever wondered what life was like for the ordinary housewife in the Middle Ages? Or how much power a medieval lady really had? Find out all about medieval housewives, peasant women, grand ladies, women in trade and women in the church in this fascinating book.

More has been written about medieval women in the last twenty years than in the two whole centuries before that. Female authors of the medieval period have been rediscovered and translated; queens are no longer thought of as merely decorative brood mares for their royal husbands and have merited their own biographies. In the past, historians have tended to look at what women could not do. In this book we will look at the lives of medieval women in a more positive light, finding out what rights and opportunities they enjoyed and attempting to uncover the real women beneath the layers of dust accumulated over the centuries.

• The only popular history book on the subject of

  medieval women

• The author teaches adult education classes on the

  subject and attends re-enactments as a medieval housewife

• Author’s

  previous book, Everyday Life in Medieval

  London, proving popular: Amberley’s Facebook new book alert received an

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• Author interested in signing events