1st Answer:
Women had no rights and were not treated very well. The peasant woman would take care of the children, cook the meals, help plant the crops, help reap the crops, carry the water, make the tallow candles, feed the animals, try to stay warm and dry. Some became nuns and spent their lives in a nunnery. Many women were abused and mistreated.
2nd Answer:
it depends on the class. if they where noble-women then they would basically sit around like a trophy wife.but if they were serfs then they would work along side the family "making clothes, milking cows" cooking meals... all though not hunting so much...(not only was it a mans thing, but it was a nodelmans thing)
3rd Answer:
Medieval women did many of the same things medieval men did, though they did spend more time than the men working in their homes and with their children. Of course, since most people were peasants, most medieval women worked on farms.
Other medieval women worked in textile, clothing, service, and food industries, as we would imagine. But women did many things we would not so easily guess. I recently read a paper on the construction of a church in France where the majority of the workers, including carpenters and masons, were women. Some of these were masters of their trades.
In the essay, "Women in the Medieval Guilds," Saunders lists the following professions women were known to have worked in: "brewer, laundress, barrel and crate maker, soap boiler, candle maker, book binder, doll painter, butcher, keeper of town keys, tax collector, shepherd, musician, rope maker, banker, money lender, inn keeper, spice seller, pie seller, woad trader, wine merchant, steel merchant, copper importer, currency exchanger, pawn shop owner, lake and river fisherwoman, baker, oil presser, builder, mason, plasterer, cartwright, wood turner, clay and lime worker, glazier, ore miner, silver miner, book illuminator, scribe, teacher, office manager, clerk, court assessor, customs officer, porter, tower guard, prison caretaker, surgeon and midwife." According to the Wikipedia article, "Horses in the Middel Ages," women also worked as farriers and saddle makers. (links below)
There were a number of women who were musicians. There was even a medieval word, trobairitz, which meant female troubadour. The list of women we know of who were troubadours is fairly long, and many of their lives were documented to some extent.
A surprising number of women were soldiers. This was true throughout the Middle Ages. In the Early Middle Ages, there were nations, such as the Saxons, in which it was common for women to go into combat. Fastrada, a Saxon soldier in a war against Charlemagne, later married him, and they had two daughters. But there were many others.
Of course, most women married. The laws pertaining to marriage varied widely from place to place and from time to time. While the Church concerned itself with sins and morality, including the sin of adultery, it seems not to have concerned itself with the actual marriage, and medieval marriages only included Church ceremonies for wealthy people, nobility, and royalty. Arranged marriages, which were common where there was a lot of money or power involved, were different for the common people. They were probably common family functions in some place, but were clearly unheard of for most of the people in others. Poorer medieval women usually married after they had saved money for dowries, to establish their households, and this was usually when they were 25 or older in many places, according to what records we have. In many places, women were allowed to choose their own partners if they had achieve majority.
The property laws pertaining to married couples were also highly varied. Some medieval women clearly were allowed to retain their own property, and others were not. Eleanor of Aquitaine retained her titles and lands when she married and was divorced from King Louis VII, and when she married Henry II, she remained in control, actually to the point of using her income from Aquitaine to support the rebellions of her sons against her husband. In England, women lost their property when they married in the 13th century, but regained title, though not necessarily use, of the land in the 14th century.
It was a pattern in medieval life that married couples worked together. Men did not want their families to suffer poverty when they died, so guilds often had provisions for women members. This way, widows and daughters of members could continue family businesses and pass them to their children. In some cases, women could join guilds on their own, independently. And although many guilds were closed to women, there were also guilds that were closed to men; the silk and textile guilds of Paris and Cologne were for women only.
Interesting medieval women included the following:
It is probably worth noting that of the ten famous medieval women mentioned above, six were of common rank.
There are links below for more information.
Women in mediveal times they work pretty hard. The great marjority of them were peasants. Some of these stayed on the farm got married raised there children cooked and open fires in the middle of the dirt floor of their cottages. so of them worked with their husband on the fields.others worked for themseleves or for bussinesses, operating looms and spinning wheels, finishing fabrics and sewing.others took in laundary. these are just a few ideas of what some of the women do in mediveal times.
Most medieval women worked pretty hard. The great majority of them were peasants. Some of these stayed on the farm, got married, raised children, cooked over open fires in the middle of the dirt floor of their cottages, because they had no fireplaces or chimneys, and worked with their husbands in the fields. They had few options.
One option was to become a servant. They did not usually choose to do this themselves, but were sent off at an early age by their parents. If they did well, they could save enough money to have a small dowry and get married to a man who lived in the village. But a large number never married and just remained house maids, kitchen maids, and so on, through their lives.
Many women who lived in villages were in trade, and they were often in trade with their husbands, selling merchandise. Others worked for themselves, or for businesses, operating looms and spinning wheels, finishing fabrics, and sewing. Others took in laundry. Some ran food stalls. Some made cheese or beer. There were a few guilds that permitted women to be members, but very few.
A fairly large number of women became nuns. Many of these were back to agricultural work, raising food for the convent, or washing, cooking, and so on. Their status as a nun freed them from some of the responsibilities of secular life, provided a greater measure of security, an allowed them a different sort of devotion than what they would have pursued with a family.
Some women, whether secular or clerical, were involved in medicine, nursing, raising medicinal herbs, preparing treatments and administering them.
Women who were wealthy did not have it easy. They had to be prepared to take over when their husbands were away or incapacitated, or when they died. The alternative was to depend on the goodness of others without a husband to protect them. Women of the nobility had to be able to defend the claims of their children. Some ruled in their own rights, and though countries like France and the Holy Roman Empire did not allow female monarchs, they did allow women to rule duchies as duchesses, and similarly allowed women to function as lesser heads of noble estates and manors. There were some women who ruled as queens regnant, especially in Spanish kingdoms and the Byzantine Empire, but also less commonly in many other countries.
They worked on farms, took care of medicine, the making of clothes, the household and children.
Wash, cook, have & care for babies, grow the kitchen garden, make and repair all the clothing, clean the home, keep the fires burning, and care for any elders.
During the day medieval ladies raised their children and did things such as weave tapestries and embroider.
the family tree for the lady was the lord...
madme
thousands.. each lord and lady had hundreds
A medieval princess is importent to medieval society because she is going to step up and become queen one day.
The job of a lady in waiting was to assist and attend to women of the noble classes such as a Queen, Princess or Duchess. They tended to be noble women themselves, but of lesser rank. Thanks! I really need this for my school medieval festival. After words I have to write an essay.
the family tree for the lady was the lord...
be a lady and wait
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there were no ladies back then
madme
The Queen
never mind lol
Raise the children and clean
The lady in waiting answered to king john the 2nd and his son athur.
Cleopatra Queen Elizabeth
No, a noblewoman would be a 'lady'.
This would depend on the country in which she lived.