We will illuminate the influence of women on war, politics, business, religion and culture. We will study queens, writers, artists, nuns businesswomen, and peasants in order to understand how women ...

Historians believe that women played a key role in the ... as there were few large towns in the Middle Ages. The majority of people were peasants. The Great Plague In 1665, the plague arrived ...

One thinks of the Middle Ages as a time when peasants rarely moved more than a ... Curiosity no doubt played a part, but men and women traveled to holy sites to save their souls—it was a serious ...