www.medievalbookshop.co.uk
Bargain books on the Middle Ages and all related subjects
Contact by email or post & phone
Publisher's notice
This book is not
offered for sale by
Medievalbookshop, but a link is provided so that you can
purchase copies from Amazon. Information about
this book was provided by the publisher
in 2001, and some details may have
changed. More
about this page...
John
M. Klassen & Eva Dolezalová, with Lynn Szabo, trans.
The
Letters of the Rozmberk Sisters: Noblewomen in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia.
Woodbridge: D. S.
Brewer,
2001.
Library of Medieval Women series.
144pp.
Paperback ISBN
085991612X.
Publisher's
recommended price £14.99/$24.95
The
letters of the
Rozmberk sisters, Perchta and Anézka, give a vivid insight into
how medieval women viewed themselves. Perchta's letters inform her
father
that his choice of a husband for her has caused her desperate sadness
and
sorrow in which death seems a better alternative. Despite her
unhappiness
and her almost total dependence on others, however, Perchta undertook
to
take control of her own fate and to improve the circumstances of her
life.
Her letters were the means whereby she informed her father and brothers
of her misery and persuaded them to take action, and in the process
they
tell us about her expectations of respect and companionship in
marriage.
The letters of both sisters show them to be women with a vigorous sense
of their own dignity and offer insights into the hopes and
disappointments,
joys and vexations of fifteenth-century women. The letters also
introduce
the environment and the activities of daily castle life, and offer an
intimate
picture of family life in the fifteenth century.
|
|
Back
to previous page
Browse books published this year
Go to Medievalbookshop used books page
Use these scrollbars to navigate the attic...
You need javascript
switched on for these scrollbars to work. If they don't, there's a full
set of links at the bottom of this page.
Primary
sources anthologies | anononymous
| facsimile
| A
| B
| C
| D
| E
| F
| G
| H
| I
| J
| K
| L
| M
| N
| O
| P
| Q
| R
| S
| T
| U
| V
| W
| X
| Y
| Z
Secondary
sources journals & partworks
| author
unknown | exhibition
guides & ephemera | A
| B
| C
| D
| E
| F
| G
| H
| I
| J
| K
| L
| Mc
| M
| N
| O
| P
| Q
| R
| S
| T
| U
| V
| W
| X
| Y
| Z
Reference books Reference index | general reference | bibliographies | biographical dictionaries | catalogues: auctions | catalogues: exhibitions | catalogues: museums & collections | chronology & dating | genealogy
& heraldry | guides & gazetteers | lexical: concordances, dictionaries, glossaries | maps & atlases | medievalism | name & place-name studies | pass notes & study guides | numismatics
Medievalism
main page | general non-fiction | reference books | biography & autobiography | travelogues | arcana | folklore | arts and crafts | kid's books | fiction | poetry | drama | humour
Other stuff browse by subject | browse by publisher | browse by series | gift books | kids' stuff | incomplete sets | shop returns | signed copies | unused bargains | useful non-medieval | new books (with Amazon links)