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Covering the period c.1530 - c.1760, this book analyzes the aims,
facilities and achievements across all levels of education in
England, institutional and informal, acknowledging in context the
education situation in the rest of the British Isles, western
Europe and North America.
The period from c. 500 to 1200 comprises the formative centuries in
European history after the fall of the Roman Empire in the west.
Societies had to live through political, social, economic and
religious challenges. Half the population, though, also had to
labour under additional constraints imposed by the prevalent gender
theories, which carried a mixture of inherited Judeo-Christian
tradition and classical medical and legal custom through the
period. Helen M. Jewell provides a lively survey of western
European women's activities and experiences during this timespan.
The core chapters investigate: - the function of women in the
countryside and towns - the role of women in the ruling and
landholding classes - women within the context of religion. This
practical centre of the book is embedded in an analysis of
contemporary, usually male-voiced, gender theories and society's
expectations of women. Several individuals who vastly exceeded
these expectations, crashing through the 'glass ceilings' of their
day, are brought together in a fascinating final chapter. Combining
a historiographical survey of trends over the last thirty years
with more recent scholarship, this is the ideal introductory guide
for anyone with an interest in women's history from the Dark Age
through to the early Medieval period.
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