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

1989-07-04 en 5m
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.

Editor

Cathy Gulkin

Editor

Sidonie Kerr

Associate Producer

Ellen Besen

Producer

Margaret Pettigrew

Painter

Wendy Anderson

Animation

Bob Mistysyn

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

Status

Released

Countries

  • Canada

Companies

  • ONF | NFB