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Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

19890h 5m

Overview

This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and similarities between that distant period and our own, and shows what medieval women’s lives were really like.

Directed by Ellen Besen
Written by Wendy Lill, Gloria Demers
Produced by Margaret Pettigrew
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Margaret Pacsu

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Themes & Keywords

manuscriptmiddle ages (476-1453)dark agesmedievalworking womenwoman centricwomen farmersmedieval history

About Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages is a history, animation, documentary film released in 1989 exploring themes of manuscript, middle ages (476-1453), dark ages, medieval, working women, woman centric. Directed by Ellen Besen, it stars Margaret Pacsu. This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and similarities between that distant period and our own, and shows what medieval women’s lives were really like.

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