Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife - The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women

''A fascinating book about four women - it tells us so much about their world, and about our own- What jumps off the page is the liveliness of the women, their passion, their courage and their own way of being...'' PHILIPPA GREGORY, author of The Other Boleyn Girl and Normal Women

''Brilliantly revealing''Observer

''A celebration of female ambition and endeavour... enormous fun'' The Sunday Times

A spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history which takes us into the minds and lives of medieval women.

What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives? And how can we hear their stories?

Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during medieval times. But remarkably, there are at least four extraordinary women who did. Marie de France, a poet; Juli