Uppity Women of Medieval Times - Softcover

Leon, Vicki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573240397 ISBN 13: 9781573240390

Publisher: Conari Press, 2007

Synopsis

Meet 200 \"Serfer Girls,\" \"Battle Axes,\" \"Amazons in Shining Armor,\" and a host of others who dazzled the Dark Ages and rocked the Renaisaance as, once again, Vicki Leon makes history sizzle.

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Review:

Our age doesn't have a lock on outspoken women, as Vicki Leon proves in this impudent, flippant history of the Middle Ages. In the 1600s, Lady Castlehaven charged her husband with rape and had his connubial rights--and head--removed. Prioress Eglentyne, who appears in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, fell afoul of clerical colleagues by ignoring rules about "dress, dogs, dances" and worse yet, "wandering in the world." And let's not forget Isabel, Queen of Castile, patron of Columbus, and wife to Ferdinand. Her marriage motto was "They rule with equal rights and both excel, Isabel as much as Ferdinand, Ferdinand as much as Isabel."

Review:

Historian Leon provides a lively history of a middle ages period filled not with homemakers and princes; but with feisty women who defied cultural expectations and built powerful lives. This is actually a series of biographical sketches of selected women; from an early Italian physician who developed a virginity-restoration technique to a fashion designer. --Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Conari Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1573240397
• ISBN 13: 9781573240390
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264