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Opportunities for, accomplishments of, and challenges faced by women in the Middle Ages. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Wife of Bath--her career, financial status, and five marriages. The economic, social, and spiritual reasons women chose to enter or were sent to convents; the advantages of convent life. The twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen and her poetry; music; and visionary, theological, scientific, and dramatic writings. The types of healing practiced by women healers in medieval Spain and their training and education. Virgin miracles, or songs to the Virgin, and what they teach us about healing in medieval Iberia.
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