The transmission of knowledge in clerical and academic settings of the later Middle Ages has been relatively well studied by traditional scholarship. But successes achieved in other subject areas by application of a set of methodologies grouped under the rubric of 'gender studies' offered hope that
Seeing and Knowing: Women and Learning in Medieval Europe 1200-1550
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- Publisher
- Brepols Publishers
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 216
- Series
- Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts 11
- Category
- Library
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