What might be one of the reasons there were no definitive roles for women in most of Shakespeare's plays? Men played all the parts.
Women were uneducated.
Men felt that women should be kept in their place.
It was a dangerous and very physical profession.

Upon the fall of rome, europe ceased being influenced by the cultures of the mediterranean coast and was more influenced by germanic tribal confederations that had already taken over vast swathes of roman territory, although the influence of rome on the former empire was very strong in legal