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Illuminated Lives

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

Director
Ellen Besen
Year
1989
Runtime
5m
Release
1989
Language
en
Country
CA

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01 · Overview

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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.

  • #medieval
  • #dark ages
  • #middle ages (476-1453)
  • #manuscript
  • #medieval history
  • #working women
  • #woman centric
  • #women farmers

  • Directed by

    Ellen Besen

  • Written by

    Wendy Lill & Gloria Demers

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