![]() ![]() ![]() But the Middle Ages, by definition, fell somewhere in between: there it was not so clear where the pillars were posted. As for the modern, there too one naturally saw the predominance of men in public and intellectual life. Ancient history, supported by the classical curriculum that once ruled the roost in humanistic and indeed general education in the West, was validated by the men-only educational institutions built around that curriculum. The cause? As I recall, she suggested that it was a mix of sheer competence-once admitted to higher education, women generally had better-developed language skills than men-and a sort of historical type-casting. John Stratton Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityĬaroline Bynum, the distinguished historian of European Christianity, once pointed out to me that in the West, medieval history is a field where women are far better represented than they are elsewhere. ![]()
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