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May 10, 2023 · What Was Life Really Like for Women in Medieval Times' Medieval historian Dr Eleanor Janega investigates one of the least recorded aspects of medieval life - working women. But dig deep...
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What did women really look like in medieval times? How did they care for their health and beauty? How do their standards of beauty compare to ours today? Con...
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1 day ago · Co-curated by Jackson and Julian Harrison, “ Medieval Women: In Their Own Words ” spotlights queens, nuns, authors, warriors, physicians and artisans alike. As the name suggests, the show ...
Jan 15, 2024 · From queens to peasants to religious figures, women found new opportunities to fight for themselves, for what they cared about, and for what they believed in. Exploring this period through these notable women can give a new and unique understanding of the Middle Ages.
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- Famous Women of The Middle Ages
- Theodora of Byzantium
- Hilda of Whitby
- Ende The Illuminator
- Aethelflaed, Lady of The Mercians
- Matilda of Tuscany
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Marie de France
- Julian of Norwich
Scholars divide the Middle Ages into three periods: 1. Early Middle Ages – 476-1000 2. High Middle Ages – 1000-1300 3. Late Middle Ages – 1300-1500 There were many famous women throughout these three eras but the following twelve are among the best-known: 1. Empress Theodora of Byzantium 2. Hilda of Whitby 3. Ende the Illuminator 4. Aethelflaed, La...
Theodora (l. 500-548) was an actress in Constantinople (and possibly a prostitute) who converted to Christianityand took up wool-spinning and weaving as a profession. How she met the future emperor Justinian (r. 527-565) is unclear, but he was so in love with her that he changed the law which forbade royalty from marrying actresses and made her his...
Hilda (l. 614-680) was a noblewoman in the early days of the Kingdom of Northumbria who chose a life of piety and devotion to one at court. She rose from a novice to abbess of her order and founded Whitby Abbey, which became a center for learning and culture. Hilda was an able administrator who took care of the many facets of running the sizeable e...
It is well-established that, by the 13th century, women were involved in book production as scribes, illustrators, and illuminators of manuscripts, but Ende's work makes clear that women were involved in this process as early as the 10th century. Ende was a nun at a monastery in Spain when she worked on the manuscript now known as the Gerona Beatus...
Aethelflaed (r. 911-918) was the daughter of Alfred the Great (r. 871-899) and became Queen of Mercia following the death of her husband Aethelred II. As a daughter of Alfred, who believed literacy encouraged piety, she was highly educated and cultured. Her court was a well-known center of culture at which her nephew Athelstan, future King of the A...
Matilda (1046-1115, also known as Matilda of Canossa) was one of the most powerful women in the Middle Ages and the preeminent political force in medieval Italy. She is best known for her military prowess in defending her lands and the authority of Pope Gregory VII (c. 1073-1085) from the aggression of Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire(r. 1056-1105...
Hildegard (1098-1179) was a German polymath; a mystic, healer, scientist, visionary, author, composer, and abbess who claimed to receive visions from God from the time she was three years old and never doubted their truth. In 1150, she is said to have received a vision to move her order to Rupertsburg and, when her male superior refused her, she pr...
Eleanor (l. c. 1122-1204) was Queen of France, Queen of England, wife of two kings, mother of King Richard I (the 'Lion-heart'), King John of Magna Carta fame, Marie de Champagne (patroness of Chretien de Troyes), as well as a number of other notable children. She personally participated in the Second Crusadealong with her ladies-in-waiting, allege...
Marie (wrote c. 1160-1215) was a multilingual French poet, translator, and proto-feminist best known for her poetic work The Lais of Marie de France which popularized the concept of courtly love, the chivalric code, and the power of women. She is recognized as the first female poet of France but seems to have spent the majority of her time in Brita...
Julian (l. 1342-1416, sometimes given as Lady Juliana of Norwich) was a mystic, visionary, and author of the masterpiece of religious literature, Revelations of Divine Love. Julian's actual name is unknown, and her pen name comes from her residence at St. Julian's Church in Norwich, England. In May 1373, Julian believed she was dying and, as she la...
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In medieval history, the stories of powerful women are often forgotten, overshadowed by tales of famous kings and knights. Yet, there were many women who were rulers, warriors, scholars, and visionaries, all who wielded influence and power in a world dominated by men.
