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Shulamith Shahar; trans Chaya Galai.
The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages.
Published London: Routledge, 1991 reprint (originally published by Methuen, 1983).
Series: University Paperbacks series.
ISBN 041504605X;
ISBN-13: 9780415046053.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: the University Press, Cambridge.
Size: 137x214x20mm.
Page count: xiii,351pp plus 16 pages of monochrome plates.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: a heavy crease to the top corner of the front cover; covers have been sealed under transparent protective plastic; spine slightly faded but not creased; previous owner’s name & initials on the half-title page, otherwise the text appears to be free of marking.


This item £4.50
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price for revised edn. £17.99]
Weight without packaging: 445g.

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Contents: Public & legal rights; Nuns; Married women; Women in the nobility; Townswomen; Women in the peasantry; Witches & the heretical movements.


See also | Women’s studies |

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