Little is known about the life of women in the Middle Ages, but without
doubt it was hard. The Church taught that women should obey their husbands. It
also spread two very different ideas about women: that they should be pure and
holy like the Virgin Mary; and that, like Eve, they could not be trusted and
were a moral danger to men. Such religious teaching led men both to worship and also to look down on women, and led women to give in to men's authority.
Marriage was usually the single most important event in the lives of men
and women. But the decision it
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