According to the lesson, how did medieval society view women?

In the first place, the Church constituted and disseminated two symbolic figures to identify women. Eva, created from the rib of Adam, reflected the kind of woman that had to be avoided because it induced the expulsion of both from paradise; and the Virgin Mary, interpreted as the model to follow, since she represented virginity, the figure of motherhood and self-denial as a wife. In addition, the sexual act was understood as a conjugal duty whose sole purpose was procreation.

The ideal of femininity grouped certain features in his personality, such as being chaste, hard-working, cultured, honest and serious. As for the physical, the light-skinned woman (who has not taken color working in the sun), liked, blond and curly hair, bulging belly and quite generous breasts.

Regarding education, we must know that the majority of society was illiterate. The vital reason was that the peasants, who occupied most of the population, had no access to culture and knowledge. On the contrary, it is known that the majority of noble women could be cultivated with different knowledge, such as writing, reading, languages ​​or music.

Finally, it should be noted that the religious were in advantage over the others in the educational field, since most of them could have knowledge of Greek and Latin and writing. It is known that women wrote from the convents.

In short, women were hardly important at this time and were a second-class citizen. Their tasks were to take care of the house and the children and to be devoted, faithful and docile wives. Only some nobles or queens managed to have a more relevant role in the society of their time, queens as important as Isabel the Catholic, for example.