middle ages, 500-1500

Profiles the lives, accomplishments, and practices of two hundred women during Rennaisance times from England, Spain, India, Rome, and other countries.

Examines the roles that women of the Middle Ages played in family and public life, religion, the arts, and in political and economic development.

Examines the activities of women in the feudal societies of France, England, the Low Countries, and southern Germany from 1100 to 1500, discussing the daily lives, ideas, attitudes, and social developments of queens, noble ladies, nuns, mystics, townswomen and peasants, healers, and others.

Contains biographical profiles of seventy women from the Medieval and Renaissance world.

A five-volume set of biographical sketches, arranged alphabetically, of 470 individuals whose contributions influenced world culture and the social development of societies flourishing in earlier centuries.

Presents alphabetized biographical sketches of significant men and women of the Middle Ages, roughly spanning the years 390-1410, and also includes a chronology of events and lists of popes, emperors, and monarchs; colleges and universities, and their founding dates; major monasteries, abbeys, and convents, and their founders and dates; and individuals listed by occupation or contribution.