¡Medieval Women!

1. ¡Medieval Women!

2. Daily Life • Lower class • Hard work • Cook meals • Help with husbands chores • Making and repairing clothes • Get up early to prepare for the day • Upper class • Were usually of noble blood • Lived comfortably with not much work

3. Clothing • Clothing showed what class they were in • Wealthy dress to look like queens or princesses of the era • The noble ladies clothing had beautiful dresses with intricate jewels etc. • Most garments had sleeves that went down to the wrist. • “kirtles” were tunics that were worn down to the woman's ankles. • Less fortunate women wore plain dresses • Tight caps were worn over the hair • Nets were occasionally worn over the hair as well and put into a “bun”

4. romance • Women were treated as property • When pheasants married it was usually out of love • When nobles married it was more of a business transaction • Courtly love became the subject of some of the most famous medieval poems, and where we get today’s word, “courtesy.”

5. Heroines • Matilda of Flanders • Queen of England • Eleanor of Provence • Mother of king edward 1 of England • Eleanor of Aquitaine • Queen of France

6. Sources • http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine2.html • http://library.thinkquest.org/12834/text.bios.html?tqskipi1=1&tqtime=0630 • http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrint/sujects/women/women.html