The Power of Women in the Middle Ages
Following Donne nello specchio del Medioevo (1995), Laterza is publishing the second volume of the trilogy devoted by Duby to women in the 12th century. Using a literary genre that was very fashionable at the time – genealogical histories composed in honour of great families – Duby gathers information for a vivid picture that will overturn our usual ideas about the total subordination of women in the Middle Ages.