 |  | | | The Dark Ages | 12 July 2005 | | |
A woman's status
By 500 AD, the Romans had left and the country was being fought over by British Celts, Picts, Saxons and the Irish. Each people had its own attitudes with regards to the position of women -a British-Celtic woman in Wales could take her husband to a divorce court for the infamous impotence test, while the Anglo Saxon St Hilda had the ear of Kings.
Jenni will be talking to Simon Young who has written a book called A.D.500 A Journey Through the Dark Isles of Britain and Ireland and Dr Sally Crawford, lecturer in Medieval Archaeology, University of Birmingham.
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