![]() 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. ![]() From Queen Elizabeth to Joan of Arc, from Artemisia Gentileschi to Damia al-Kahina, this collection of medieval. 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. Vicki Leon, tireless explorer of the past, has gathered a treasure of information from sources written, etched, carved, and painted, to reconstruct the lives of wild women who wouldn't keep their places. ![]() Her marriage motto was "They rule with equal rights and both excel, Isabel as much as Ferdinand, Ferdinand as much as Isabel." 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. In the 1600s, Lady Castlehaven charged her husband with rape and had his connubial rights-and head-removed. ![]() This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 264 pages. ![]() Our age doesn't have a lock on outspoken women, as Vicki Leon proves in this impudent, flippant history of the Middle Ages. Download or read book Uppity Women of Medieval Times written by Vicki León and published by Fine Communications. ![]()
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