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A survey of women’s lives in the later Middle Ages When, in the late fourteenth century, Julian of Norwich was walled up in a cell from which she was not to emerge alive, it was not a punishment. Rather,

Mystics and hustlers" A survey of women’s lives in the later #MiddleAges

#History #BookReview by Helen Castor

POET, MYSTIC, WIDOW, WIFE
The extraordinary lives of #medieval women
320pp. Bloomsbury. £22.
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