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Women In The Middle Ages

 

Life in the middle ages was very different than life now. The people lived very differently than how we do today. If you are interested in women in the middle ages and how they were treated, how they lived, and what life was like for them read here.

 

Getting Married: In the middle ages when a women got married it had a lot of different laws and ways that we get married to day, here are some facts. When a girl got marreid back then she had to have a wealthy family, this is because it brought important families together. Also one other important thing is that a girl didnt get to choose who she married unless she was poor. The parents arranged the marriages of there children. Love wasnt an issue. The only way that you could ever marry someone that you truly loved is if you were a poor girl. This is because it didtn matter who poor people married because they werent important back then.

Many young girls became widows because there husbands were killed in battle. But most of the women would have to find another husband to take care of her and her family.

 

Beauty: In the middle there was a look that everyone wanted. They wanted to be slim, have long golden hair, dark eyebrows, and small grey eyes. all of the women in the middle ages