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  2. Women in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    Peasant women during the time period were subjected to a number of superstitious practices when it came to their health. In The Distaff Gospels, a collection of 15th-century French women's lore, advice for women's health was plentiful. "For a fever, write the first 3 words of the Our Father on a sage leaf, eat it in the morning for 3 days and ...

  3. Perceptions of the female body in medieval Europe - Wikipedia

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    The best of women were virgins, as "the construction of the female chaste body as a sign of fallen humanity's alienation from its own properly angelic nature" only furthered the gap between pure virgins and women of a lower tier who were virgins no longer. [11] In The Romaunt of the Rose, "women are synonymous with sensual desire." The ...

  4. Single women in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    In medieval Europe, there was a geographic contrast in the proportions of single women. In England in 1377, about one-third of adult women were single women. [ 1 ] In Florence city of Italy, in 1427, about one-fifth of adult women were single.

  5. Medieval female sexuality - Wikipedia

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    The history of Medieval women's sexuality and lesbianism is not well-documented and seldomly acknowledged due to lesbianism being underplayed or ignored compared to male homosexuality in the Medieval time period. More often, Medieval physicians discussed male homosexuality in greater detail than lesbianism in handbooks that detailed religious ...

  6. Women in Anglo-Saxon society - Wikipedia

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    The study of the role of women in the society of early medieval England, or Anglo-Saxon England, is a topic which includes literary, history and gender studies.Important figures in the history of studying early medieval women include Christine Fell, and Pauline Stafford.

  7. No one's sure exactly why this woman had a story to tell, because this woman lived as many as 6,000 years ago. We can still imagine her intoning scary scenes with foreign howls. A charming man's buttery voice might've won over a reluctant, longhaired princess; a beguiling forest creature's dry cackle a smoke signal for danger.

  8. Category:Medieval women - Wikipedia

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    Medieval women scientists (1 C, 9 P) W. Women in medieval warfare (7 C, 37 P) Women writers (medieval) (26 C) Pages in category "Medieval women"

  9. 16 Bizarre Careers for Women That No Longer Exist

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    During the Edo period, from 1603 to 1867, Japanese culture birthed an odd job known as heoibikuni. ... In ancient and medieval Europe, a group of wise women who were mostly elderly would give ...