Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 5495
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Rosenthal , Joel T.
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  • Title: Other Victims: Peeresses as War Widows, 1450-1500 [The author examines the lives of English war widows, who often suffered for their dead husbands' military and political disgraces. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Upon My Husband's Death: Widows in the Literature and Histories of Medieval Europe.  Edited by Louise MirrerStudies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization.  University of Michigan Press, 1992.  Pages 131 - 152. Originally published in History: The Journal of the Historical Association 72, 235 (1987): 213-230.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Noble Women Politics Social History Wars of the Roses Warfare and Warriors Widows
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 15
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  • Author's Affiliation: State University of New York, Stony Brook
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  • Year of Publication: 1992.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0472102575