By the Late Middle Ages, Women Were

question 72

Multiple Choice

By the late Middle Ages, women were:

• A) Elevated to a place of purity and considered almost perfect.
• B) Considered to be more like Eve than Mary.
• C) Thought to be temptresses.
• D) Sent to convents to be cured of their natural tendencies to seduce men.

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