In this last blog post sharing a little of my research into mediaeval women, I will talk briefly about the daily lives of fourteenth century women. The most striking thing I have learned from reading modern historians’ accounts of the daily life of women in the fourteenth century is how busy most of them must …
Month: October 2016
Mediaeval women (3)
In this third blog post sharing a little of my research into mediaeval women, I will discuss some of the practical aspects of the lives of women in the fourteenth century. What women wore and where they lived Fortune's Wheel is set in the middle of the fourteenth century. The Luttrell Psalter, produced around 1330-35, perhaps …
Mediaeval women (2)
In this second blog post sharing a little of my research into mediaeval women, I am looking at the rather negative view of women that can be found in some mediaeval literature. Mediaeval misogyny An interesting aspect of the view of women we find in some of the contemporary literature is the contrast between the …
Medieval women (1)
The principal characters of Fortune’s Wheel are women: Alice, the middle-aged widow of a moderately affluent peasant; Eleanor, a young free woman, orphaned by the plague and now thrown onto her own resources; and Margaret, the wife of the lord of the manor of Meonbridge. I wanted to tell the story of Fortune’s Wheel through …
Carolyn Hughes 