WOMEN IN MIDDLE AGES

In the Middle Ages women had one special role: all women were expected to be subservient to the men in their family. Most of them worked and didn't stay at home, contrary to some modern beliefs.In that time there's an exceptional women called Joan of Arc. Noble Lady had another role: tthe pleasant women played an important role in her household. She worked very hard to help support the faminly. To entertainn they varied according to status but included feasts , banquets, jousts and tournaments, Mistery Plays... The most famous women composter in the Middle Ages was Hildegard of Bingen, and the main church in Europe were the Catholic Church. In this church there were some leaders; bishops: who were often wealthy and came from noble families, ruled over groups of parishes called ``diocese´´ and the parish priests: on the other hand, come from humbler blackgrounds and often had a little education. Other important thing in is this age was the Inquisition, the machinery of repression, whose mission was to match over the purity of the religious principles.