Middle Ages in a skirt

We read about them in knightly novels and satirical novels Bokkaccio, saw in films, looked at the paintings. But there was no consensus either. This is understandable - what could have in common, beautiful princesses, for which the knights perform exploits, and dirty peasants who are meekly dying somewhere there, in the background of a series or a novel?
What is her - "right" medieval woman? "Vesse of sin" or a beautiful lady? Valuable goods in the marriage market or the disenfranchised slave of her husband? Daring harlot or exalted nun? Or maybe all this is taken together? Or nothing of this, so it’s better to forget everything that we knew or thought that we knew on this topic, start studying all over again and seek the truth somewhere else, where no one has been looking for.
women of the Middle Ages: stereotypes and facts