Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages (1989)

overview : 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.

Release Date : Jul 04, 1989

Runtime : 5m

Genre : History  Animation  Documentary  

Companies : ONF | NFB

Countries : Canada

Keywords : manuscript, middle ages (476-1453), dark ages, medieval, working women, woman centric, women farmers, medieval history