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Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages

Ellen Besen

1989 5 min

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This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and similarities between that distant period and our own, and shows what medieval women’s lives were really like.

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This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and similarities between that distant period and our own, and shows what medieval women’s lives were really like.

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History

Women

All subjects

Credits

• director
  Ellen Besen
  
• producer
  Margaret Pettigrew
  
• executive producer
  Kathleen Shannon
  
  Rina Fraticelli
  
• associate producer
  Ellen Besen
  
• script
  Wendy Lill
  
  Gloria Demers
  
• animation camera
  Robert Mistysyn
  
• sound
  Todd Warren
  
• editing
  Sidonie Kerr
  
  Cathy Gulkin
  
• sound editing
  Julian Olson
  
  Clare Bambrough
  
• music editing
  Julian Olson
  
• re-recording
  Adrian Croll
  
• narrator
  Margaret Pacsu
  
• music
  Sharon Smith
  

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