2.  Lower class  Hard work  Cook meals  Help with husbands chores  Making and repairing clothes  Get up early to prepare for the day  Upper class  Were usually of noble blood  Lived comfortably with not much work

3.  Clothing showed what class they were in  Wealthy dress to look like queens or princesses of the era  The noble ladies clothing had beautiful dresses with intricate jewels etc.  Most garments had sleeves that went down to the wrist.  “kirtles” were tunics that were worn down to the woman's ankles.  Less fortunate women wore plain dresses  Tight caps were worn over the hair  Nets were occasionally worn over the hair as well and put into a “bun”

4.  Women were treated as property  When pheasants married it was usually out of love  When nobles married it was more of a business transaction  Courtly love became the subject of some of the most famous medieval poems, and where we get today’s word, “courtesy.”

5.  Matilda of Flanders  Queen of England  Eleanor of Provence  Mother of king edward 1 of England  Eleanor of Aquitaine  Queen of France

6.  http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroi ne2.html http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroi ne2.html  http://library.thinkquest.org/12834/text.bio s.html?tqskipi1=1&tqtime=0630 http://library.thinkquest.org/12834/text.bio s.html?tqskipi1=1&tqtime=0630  http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrint/suject s/women/women.html http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrint/suject s/women/women.html