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

July. 04,1989      
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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.

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Reviews

Clevercell
1989/07/04

Very disappointing...

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ThiefHott
1989/07/05

Too much of everything

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Taraparain
1989/07/06

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

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Dana
1989/07/07

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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