I really don't know much at all about the Middle Ages. Other than like stories about King Arthur and Merlin, I really can't remember anything. I do know that back in whatever time periods their was always a definite gender separation in which we mostly here about men and their stories and hardly ever women. This was even shown in the art displayed in the David Owsley Museum, of all the pieces in there, I don't think there was a sole picture of just a woman and the one that was, Portrait of a Lady with a Turban, had its reasons for having been painted. the lady in the picture displayed jewelry indicating that she was married and we are even able to tell that by the slight plumpness of her midsection that she is pregnant. In the description of the painting all of this is explained, indicating that if this women was not pregnant or at least married she most likely would not have been the sole subject of this picture. These are my thoughts at least...
Citations
Pulgo Domenico. Portrait of a Lady with a Turban. 1525. Oil on canvas. David Owsley Museum, Muncie, Indiana.
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