Book of Donmon Teith

Praise for the first edition: 'It is difficult to imagine another book in which one could find all this diverse material, and no doubt Amt's collection, in its

From women's medicine and the writings of Christine de Pizan to the lives of market and tradeswomen and the idealization of virginity, gender and social status

Looks at the lives and social conditions of women in medieval Europe.

What was the status of women in the Middle Ages? How have women fared in the hands of historians? And, what is the current state of research about women in the

The first complete look at the social status and daily life of medieval Jewish women.