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Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

Genres

History , Animation , Documentary

Duration

5 min

Director

Ellen Besen

Rating

Rating not available

Release Date

July 4, 1989

Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

Original title: Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

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Synopsis

This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and similarities between that distant period and our own, and shows what medieval women’s lives were really like.