Fémina : Una nueva historia de la Edad Media a través de las mujeres

The Middle Ages are often considered a bloody era populated by Vikings, knights, monks, and kings: a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded women. But if we look a little closer, we find that those centuries were anything but "dark." Janina Ramirez, an Oxford historian specializing in the Middle Ages, has discovered a large number of women's names in historical records crossed out with the word "female" next to them. Our view of history, therefore, is incomplete: they are missing. Only now, thanks to a meticulous examination of the objects, writings, and possessions they left behind, are the influential and multifaceted lives of the women of that time emerging. "Femina" goes beyond official history to uncover the true impact of women like Jadwiga, the only woman to rule as a "king" in Europe; Hildegard of Bingen, the greatest scholar and polymath of the Middle Ages, or the Viking warrior of Birka, whose skeleton, originally attributed to a man, contradicts the belief that medieval women did not engage in warfare. In a vibrant journey across Europe, the voices that emerge in this volume offer us a glimpse into a profoundly original and exciting new Middle Ages.