Medieval Royal Women

Oct 24, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Francesca Peacock |Medieval Royal Women

Credit: Battel Hall Retable © Leeds Castle Foundation 18 In the popular imagination, “medieval” and “women” aren’t always words which go together happily. Ideas about the lives of pre-Renaissance women tend to form two hazy stereotypes: an illiterate girl who was married young, and had to endure the horrors of pregnancy, childbirth, and a hateful repressive husband all before she was out of her teens; or her cloistered sister, a Nun, who lived a life of ascetic boredom and deprivation. In a...