[wideawake]

There are exaggerations here, obviously. But women in the High Middle Ages did indeed enjoy the right to own property and to contract marriages on their own behalf.

They also were able to enjoy political and ecclesiastical authority and to build and run business ventures.

In the High Middle Ages, the Catholic Church was pretty much the only game in town theologically - yet feminists despise the Church.

[Dems_R_Losers]

I am reading a fine biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine. She was once the biggest landowner in all of Europe! She owned about a third of France at one time.

[sageb1]

And I despise feminists.

[twigs]

I think freedoms varied from town to town for everyone. But it certainly makes sense that during a time when a lot of men were often off fighting that their women at home assumed a lot more responsibility. I also think that the middle ages has gotten the rep for being a very backward age. That’s not necessarily true at all.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

“yet feminists despise the Church.”

I agree. Christianity is the key to women’s freedom. The current hatred has a lot to do with leftist theology and not much to do with true freedom.