Despite these criticisms, the book's importance in highlighting the significant role of women in medieval history cannot be understated. To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. to Jawiga, the now sainted and the once and only female “king” of Poland and Margery Kempe, whose dictated autobiography (believed to be the first in the English language) offers a unique look at life in the late 14th and early 15th century. It's well-written and covers an interesting period focusing on women, which often don't get coverage when the Middle Ages are concerned.

Leider hat sich Autorin einiges herausgenommen, was ich von einer ernsthaften Historikerin nie erwartet hätte. Al bij al zijn de stukken over voor mij onbekende geschiedenis te warrig om er enig houvast aan te krijgen, de vertaling te slecht om mij niet af en toe te ergeren. Ich liebe Serien wie "Vikings: Valhalla" oder auch "The Last Kingdom", weshalb ich einige Frauenfiguren aus Dr. There is only a limited amount of information about these women, it just seems to me that it's how it's dressed up which makes all the difference. The section on the Cathars—the victims of the 13th century Albigensian Crusade in southern France—was a bit better; while again pretty surface-level on the individual women, it compensates for that by including a bunch of them along with addressing the larger issues at play.

The middle ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings: a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded women. The narrative occasionally loses its thread, describing extensive historical context before circling back to the main subject. Ramirez’s essay style of an introduction to each chapter’s subject by reference to a relatively contemporary event (for example the 1997 canonisation of the fourteenth century Jadwiga, “King” of the Poles in chapter 7), followed by an imaginative verbal recreation of an event in the individual’s life and then an exploration of their wider historical significance is a good approach. Additionally, while the subject matter is engaging, the impact is lessened at times by the author’s writing, which can be clunky and not always serve the fascinating narratives within. I find it likely this has to do with the translations of the stories used, but generally we anglicise names without using letters not in the English alphabet; one example I noticed in the book is Thorbjorn which has i in the text instead of j.

Die Autorin, Kulturhistorikerin, Literatur- sowie Sprachwissenschaftlerin, Dozentin und Forscherin Dr. Overall, the analysis suggests she travelled to London from Africa and was subject to the same harsh living conditions experienced by many working-class fourteenth-century workers. I understand that it’s about the wider female experience or their lives but like I say, I think I expected more on specific women. But the actual writing and stories wasn’t thrilling… a big focus on items rather than people’s histories… a few standout moments like the early chapter on Vikings and the last chapter on migration, race and sexuality but the middle parts bored me.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Only now, through a careful examination of the artefacts, writings and possessions they left behind, are the influential and multifaceted lives of women emerging. Another chapter begins with a fourteenth century journal found in a dusty closet of a country mansion and was almost trashed when it was rescued serendipitously by a visiting museum curator.Since her death, Jadwiga has been invoked for nationalist purposes rather than for her accomplishments as an intelligent female ruler, her piety and image as a paragon of virtue overshadowing her history-altering life. You might have assumed Bj 581 would have one of those helmets with curly horns too, were it not for the fact that the “classic” Norse headgear was actually a stage prop invented for a production of Wagner’s Ring cycle just two years earlier, in 1876.