Medieval women: everything you wanted to know
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Eleanor Janiger is the author of a new book on medieval women, The Wants and Future Sex. She tells Emily Briffett about everything from the trials of childbirth and menstruation to the best places for women to party in the medieval period. What was the most respected guild that medieval women could join? And why did medieval people believe that older women's looks could kill?
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