I probably mostly read fiction. I just assume that somewhere in high school they already taught me everything I need to know, and if anything else comes up, I will look it up on Wikipedia. Sometimes I read essay collections or diaries or somesuch thing (but those are basically just blog posts from the past).

But vis a vis the lives of Women in the Middle Ages, I did recently read the Letters of Abelard and Heloise, which was super-sweet. Mostly because, despite being a famous (eunuch, hehe) philosopher and everything, Peter Abelard is totally annoying in his love letters. And Heloise d'Argentuil kicks ass. (I'm sure it must have been somewhere in your book. Abelard was tutoring Heloise in Latin and such and then he slept with her, and then her uncle castrated him, and sent her off to a convent, and then he become totally famous, and she became head abbess, and they started sending letters to each other where he mercilessly berates her, and she's all, you're a huge tool).