Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages
History
Animation
Documentary
Overview
This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and similarities between that distant period and our own, and shows what medieval women’s lives were really like.
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Keywords
manuscript
middle ages (476-1453)
dark ages
medieval
working women
woman centric
women farmers
medieval history
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