Poet Mystic Widow Wife The Extraordinary Lives of  by Hetta Howes PAPERBACK

Poet Mystic Widow Wife The Extraordinary Lives of by Hetta Howes PAPERBACK

Brand new product\nFree UK standard delivery 2-3 days from despatch\nTracked secure courier\nPlease check delivery times at top of listing\nBookCurl is a family bookseller - thank you for your business\n\n-- As featured in The Bookseller Buyer''s Guide Seasonal Highlights\n\nA spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history which takes us into the minds and lives of medieval women.\n\nWhat was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives? And how can we hear the stories of women from this period?\n\n Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during medieval times. But remarkably, there are at least four extraordinary women who did. Those women were: Marie de France, a poet; Julian of Norwich, a mystic and anchoress; Christine de Pizan, a widow and court writer; and Margery Kempe, a no-good wife. In their own ways these four very different writers pushed back against the h

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