Product Description: The single woman is a troubling and disruptive category. Does it denote all unmarried women, therefore creating a group which every female was part of at some stage in her life? Or, were the categories "maiden" and "widow" so culturally significant in late medieval England that "single woman" was a residual category for women seen as anomalous? Was the category "single man" used in an equivalent way and, if not, why? This study offers a way into the complex process of social classification in late medieval England...read more

Product Description: What was the role of the Christian household in medieval Europe? Contributors to this volume of collected essays write from a number of disciplinary perspectives, examine socially diverse households, from different regions, in different periods...read more