Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages
1989-07-04en5m
HistoryAnimationDocumentary
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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Producer
Margaret Pettigrew
Animation
Bob Mistysyn
Writer
Wendy Lill
Associate Producer
Ellen Besen
Painter
Nance Thacker
Painter
Wendy Anderson
manuscriptmiddle ages (476-1453)dark agesmedievalworking womenwoman centricwomen farmersmedieval history