🎧 Medieval Women with Eleanor Janega
🎧 Gone Medieval
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38m
What made for the ideal woman in the Middle Ages? In her new book The Once and Future Sex, Dr. Eleanor Janega looks at what beauty, sexuality, work and social status meant for medieval women. Despite the expectation of their primarily being mothers, they were also industrious farmers, brewers, textile workers, artists and artisans.
In this episode of Gone Medieval, for International Women's Day on Wednesday 8 March, Dr. Cat Jarman finds out more from Dr. Janega about an era that paved the way for new ideas about women’s nature, intellect and ability.
This episode was edited and produced by Rob Weinberg.
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