Women in Medieval English Society

 Week 1 – Introduction to medieval women and their lives in medieval society
 Week 2 – beginning with real women: Margaret Paston and her busy life
 Week 3 – Margery Kempe and her unusual life
 Week 4 – fictional women in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
 Week 5 – women in medieval Mystery (religious) drama
 Week 6 – women in the Tudor Interludes (secular plays before Shakespeare)