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When flipping through the pages of history, especially when the Middle Ages are concerned, we are often confronted with two extreme figures: noble ladies awaiting rescue in their towers, immortalized in poetry (the queens of courtly love literature), or saints cloaked in divine silence along the dim corridors of monasteries. But what about the rest? Where are the millions of “ordinary” women who toiled in the fields with the plow, wove cloth in town markets, traded silk, and struggled day and ni