Peasant women of the Middle Ages had to wake up real early to cook breakfast and head off to the fields where they would work the rest of the day. In the movie 'The Name Of The Rose' women's roles were to be a peasants and a prostitutes. According to the church and the monks in the abbey they said that women were devils. For example, in the movie Adso fell in love with this woman but instead of moving in with her, he left her and continued on with his beliefs. Also, in the movie brother William said "more bitter then death is women" which means women would ruin lives. If women were not paesants they would be living out of their husbands' money.