Shulamith Shahar: 2 books
Growing Old in the Middle Ages
'Winter Clothes Us in Shadow and Pain'
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The social realities of old age have undergone profound changes since the middle ages. This study shows, however, that the images, attitudes and expectations of old people have changed for less.
Shulamith Shahar shows how the status and social participation of the elderly varied according to...
The Fourth Estate
A History of Women in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Did women really constitute a `fourth estate' in medieval society and, if so, in what sense? In this wide-ranging study Shulamith Shahar considers this and the whole question of the varying attitudes to women and their status in western Europe between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries.