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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The lady & the Virgin The lady & the Virgin Penny Schine Gold Penny Schine Gold provides a bold analysis of key literary and artistic images of women in the Middle Ages and the relationship between these images and the actual experience of women. She argues tha… OL120458W
Collapse Collapse Jared Diamond,Ricardo García Pérez "In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much… OL276557W
Prostitution in Mediaeval Society (Women in Culture & Society) Prostitution in Mediaeval Society (Women in Culture & Society) Leah Lydia Otis Prostitution in Medieval Society, a monograph about Languedoc between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, is also much more than that: it is a compelling narrative about the social construction of s… OL9348079W