Urban WomenExploring womens stories of work, protest, and power in the medieval Low Countries The Middle Agesa time often cast as a dark period when violence reigned and men dominated society. Women, as the deeply rooted clich would have it, played scarcely any part. But this book tells a different story, one in which women step forward as the main characters. In the southern Low Countries, townswomen held substantial rights, which they used to conduct business,