Medieval Women with Eleanor Janega
Gone Medieval
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What Are the Sources of Women in the Middle Ages?
Aristotle is as much to blame as Thomas Aquinas for the ways that people thought about women in the Middle Ages. Aristotle, even physicians like Galen or people from out of the Hippocratic school,. individuals like this really build up ideas about what it is to be a woman for medieval people. For them, what it isto be a woman is you're not a man. And so women as a result are defined as being not men.
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