Uppity Women of Medieval Times - Hardcover

Leon, Vicki

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1567312500 ISBN 13: 9781567312508

Publisher: Fine Communications, 1997

Synopsis

Reconstructs the lives of "wild" women who wouldn't keep their places during medieval times, including Queen Elizabeth, Joan of Arc, Caterina Da Vinci, and Lisa di Anton

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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: Fine Communications
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1567312500
• ISBN 13: 9781567312508
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 241