While a Medieval woman certainly did not have the personal power of a woman of the 21st century, she was not without agency, ...

In medieval society, most people lived in villages ... people faced starvation. Women in peasant families learnt to spin wool from an early age, using wooden wheels to make clothes.

Medieval Women and Their Objects. Co-edited with Jenny Adams ... The Mechanical Clock in Late Medieval Literature." "Representations of Peasant Speech: Some Literary and Social Contexts for The Taill ...