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Women and the book

by Lesley Smith, Jane H. M. Taylor

1997 287 pages eng

In this wide-ranging collection of essays, the authors address some key questions in the relationship between women and books in the middle ages. How were women portrayed in medieval books? What books by medieval women survive? What kind of books did medieval women read? Concentrating on the pictor…

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