考察妇女的教育地位,是认识妇女社会地位的一个独特视角。在中世纪的欧洲,大多数人都没有受过正式的学校教育。①当时欧洲妇女的受教育程度相对于男子来说普遍更低,有机会受到良好教育的妇女只占少数,而且一般都来自于上层社会或知识分子家庭。在13世纪欧洲的大学普遍兴起以前, Examining the educational status of women is a unique perspective on understanding women’s social status. In medieval Europe, most people did not have formal schooling. At that time, the education level of women in Europe was generally lower than that of men, and only a minority of women had the opportunity to receive good education, and most often they came from the upper class or from the intelligentsia families. Before the general rise of European universities in the 13th century,