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An examination of the changing situations of European women from late Antiquity to the Renaissance, a period when Europe changed from a unified polytheistic society focused on the Mediterranean, to a group of incipient nation-states, overwhelmingly Christian, characterized by a rise in urbanism, by looser social bonds, and by the need to respond to the challenges presented by Islam in the Middle East. Explores how the social, political, and legal structures that evolved in this period affected European women’s lives and relations between the sexes.
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