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When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female laborers in the field, and even women of ill repute. In reality, however, medieval conceptions of womanhood were multifaceted, and women's roles were varied (...)

Canta, oh, musa , comienza a recitar el aeda, e inmediatamente volamos a la Grecia de la antigüedad. Allí, donde la leyenda, el mito y la historia se difuminan, Homero nos recibe en la llanura. Helena de Esparta, bella entre todas las mujeres, ha sido raptada por Paris, príncipe troyano. Menelao, (...)