Download or read book Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect written by Shulamith Shahar and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first book-length treatment of women Waldensians, who have been almost written out of the main narratives of the sect, but are here shown to have played a full role within it. It throws light on women and gender in medieval society as well as on one of the main heretical movements in Western Europe in the early fourteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.