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

Name: Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages
Genre: History, Animation, Documentary
Released: 1989-07-04
Duration: 5 min
Rating: 0
Cast: Margaret Pacsu

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

Produced by:

ONF | NFB

Released on: Tuesday, July 4, 1989

Runtime: 5 minutes

Genres:

History
Animation
Documentary

Directed by: Ellen Besen

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Overview

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.