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Mariah Luther Cooper

Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages

Just the Good Wife? Death and Legacy of Noblewomen in the Middle Ages

by Mariah Luther Cooper on November 15, 2018
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Many medieval women were not just "the good wife" or "the good mother", but also had real power. But their power was often erased after they died.
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