Medieval women: everything you wanted to know
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The Islamic World Is Where the Parties Are Happening
If I have to be reincarnated and sent back as a woman to the medieval period, I'm going for the Islamic world. A lot more freedoms for women under Islam than there were for Christianity. Women can be trained at higher levels and do more schooling. They kind of have a little bit more of a life outside of the house. Christians worry that girls are going to convert to Islam because it's said that Islam is much easier to follow than Christianity.
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