The exhibition presents an extensive collection of medieval books revealing women’s active lives in a society that often relegated them to the roles of maidens or nuns.
Each item in the collection tells a story about women's realities, portraying how they seized opportunities despite the harshness of medieval life.
The exhibition includes a textbook depicting a divorce trial, highlighting the lack of rights for women as the judge only listens to the husband.
A surprising Welsh law allowed wives to annul marriages after seven years if their husbands had bad breath, illustrating varied cultural attitudes toward women's rights.
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