Medieval women: everything you wanted to know
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Do You Want to Be a Nun?
Women are more likely to not get married if they have money. There is a real worry about women on their own as independent entities. The best thing that a woman could do is never marry and join the church, says Maclean Powell. But it's possible to live as a single woman - but people don't like it because women are perceived as being kind of unruly.
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