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Critique of Women In The Middle Ages

IntroductionIn this critique of Women In Thelives: childbirth, survival, marriage,
Middle Ages, I will identify the Gies'property rights, legal rights, education,
purpose in writing this book and discuss howwork, political roles, and religious
well they fulfilled their purpose. Also Iroles.Authors' Writing StyleDespite the
will evaluate the merits and shortcomings ofdifficulties in writing about medieval women,
this book in relation to the themes, sourcesthe Gies do an excellent job of providing the
used, and the authors' writing style.Authors'reader with an extended, if not complete,
PurposeThe Gies assert that researching andview of the lives of these women. They must
writing about women in the Middle Ages isnecessarily fill in some blanks that history
difficult, due to the sources that arehas left us, but the majority of their
commonly used and which gives a misogynicconclusions seem very logical and believable.
view of women, such as the writings of ChurchFor instance, the pervasive belief that women
fathers, contemporary law books, and literaryhad few legal rights is shown to be not
works. The Gies attempt to describe the livesstrictly true in the descriptions of the
of women in the thousand years known as thewoman who disinherited her son in favor of a
early Middle Ages, Dark Ages, and High Middlekinswoman (21) and other examples of women
Ages.The first section of the book offersmaintaining control over their own
background information on the lives of womenproperty.The manner in which the Gies trace
in the early Middle Ages, and the lastthe fluctuating status of women in the Middle
section are individual portraits of specificAges is seen to be directly connected to
women in the High Middle Ages. The Giespolitics, economics, and changing social
explore several elements that affect women'sstructure.



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