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• catalog abstract ""This collection of occasional writings by renowned medieval scholar Margaret Wade Labarge considers an eclectic mix of themes and issues in the history of the Middle Ages. The varied lives of medieval women, their power and status within society, are depicted through their own writings; questions of medieval culture are linked to those facing humanity in our time; travel, as experienced by the most prestigious ambassador and by the lowliest pilgrim, is explored; and the origins and conditions of health care are examined. These themes have inspired or informed her eight major works, but are revisited here with the clarity, wit and discipline of a great teacher. These essays will give readers already acquainted with Labarge's work new pleasure, and provide an enticing path into medieval lives and time for new readers."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b10448420.
• catalog created "c1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "c1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
• catalog description ""This collection of occasional writings by renowned medieval scholar Margaret Wade Labarge considers an eclectic mix of themes and issues in the history of the Middle Ages. The varied lives of medieval women, their power and status within society, are depicted through their own writings; questions of medieval culture are linked to those facing humanity in our time; travel, as experienced by the most prestigious ambassador and by the lowliest pilgrim, is explored; and the origins and conditions of health care are examined. These themes have inspired or informed her eight major works, but are revisited here with the clarity, wit and discipline of a great teacher. These essays will give readers already acquainted with Labarge's work new pleasure, and provide an enticing path into medieval lives and time for new readers."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
• catalog description "The lives of medieval women. In search of medieval women. A medieval woman's advice to wives. Wives, widows and wantons, a medieval sampler. Three medieval widows and a second career. Beatrice, Countess of Provence, marriage politics in the thirteenth century. The education of medieval women revisited ... The status and power of medieval noblewomen. -- Aspects of culture, medieval and modern. The cultural tradition of Canadian women. Stained glass, a reflection of the thirteenth century passion for light. Medieval travel and travellers ... -- Highways and byways of scholarly enquiry. Saint Louis and the Jews. Travels of a diplomat, Edward I's use of Othon de Grandson. A clock to Constantinople, the travels of Ghillebert de Lannoy. Pero Tafur, a fifteenth century Spaniard. Henry of Lancaster and Le livre de seyntz medicines. Pey Berland, Archbishop of Bordeaux, 1430-1456. -- Medieval health care. The health problems of medieval travellers. The Régime du corps of Aldebrandino of Siena, a thirteenth century regimen for women. Gerontocomia, on the care of the aged, a fifteenth century Italian guide by Gabriele Zerbi (1445-1505).".
• catalog extent "292 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0886292905".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "c1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "[Ottawa] : Carleton University Press,".
• catalog subject "940.1 21".
• catalog subject "CB351 .L32 1997".
• catalog subject "Civilisation médiévale.".
• catalog subject "Civilization, Medieval.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The lives of medieval women. In search of medieval women. A medieval woman's advice to wives. Wives, widows and wantons, a medieval sampler. Three medieval widows and a second career. Beatrice, Countess of Provence, marriage politics in the thirteenth century. The education of medieval women revisited ... The status and power of medieval noblewomen. -- Aspects of culture, medieval and modern. The cultural tradition of Canadian women. Stained glass, a reflection of the thirteenth century passion for light. Medieval travel and travellers ... -- Highways and byways of scholarly enquiry. Saint Louis and the Jews. Travels of a diplomat, Edward I's use of Othon de Grandson. A clock to Constantinople, the travels of Ghillebert de Lannoy. Pero Tafur, a fifteenth century Spaniard. Henry of Lancaster and Le livre de seyntz medicines. Pey Berland, Archbishop of Bordeaux, 1430-1456. -- Medieval health care. The health problems of medieval travellers. The Régime du corps of Aldebrandino of Siena, a thirteenth century regimen for women. Gerontocomia, on the care of the aged, a fifteenth century Italian guide by Gabriele Zerbi (1445-1505).".
• catalog title "A medieval miscellany / Margaret Wade Labarge ; with introductions by N.E.S. Griffiths.".
• catalog type "text".