Unquiet women : stories from the dusk of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Enlightenment
Adams, Max, 1961-2018
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Wynflæd was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who owned male slaves and badger-skin gowns; Egeria, a Gaulish nun who toured the Holy Land as the Roman Empire was collapsing; Gudrid, an Icelandic explorer and the first woman to give birth to a European child on American soil; Mary Astell, a philosopher who out-thought John Locke. In this exploration of some of remarkable - but little-known - women living between between the last days of Rome and the Enlightenment, Max Adams overturns the idea that women of this period were either queens, nuns or invisible. In a sequence of chronological chapters, a centrepiece biographical sketch is complemented by thematically linked stories of other women of the time.
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Author:
Adams, Max, 1961-, author
Imprint:
London : Head of Zeus, 2018.
Collation:
292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm
Notes:
"An Apollo book."Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781788543415 (hbk)9781788543408 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
920.7'2
Language:
English
BRN:
332829
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