2023/102: Femina — Janina Ramirez

2023/102: Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It — Janina Ramirez

Hildegard was a product of her time; it is not simply that she was extraordinary, but the world she grew up in was more hospitable to extraordinary women than we might think.[loc. 3686]

Ramirez aims to find 'empowered women with agency' from medieval Europe: she eschews the best-known candidates (Joan of Arc, Isabella of France, et cetera) but reveals her subjects from multiple angles. ( Read more... )