Authors: Vicki Leon
ISBN-13: 9781573240390, ISBN-10: 1573240397
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Date Published: May 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
The author of "Uppity Women of Ancient Times" makes history sizzle once again with insightful and witty portraits and accounts of women, notorious, courageous, and unusual who both defined and defied their times. Exceptionally researched and irresistibly entertaining, "Uppity Women of Medieval Times" gives readers a feminist--and humorous--perspective on little-known great women of history. NPR underwriting in San Francisco & New York.
When Uppityhood Twas in Flower | ||
Making hay in the Middle Ages | 1 | |
Axes to Grind, Places to Pillage | 25 | |
Credit Problems of the Frankly Feudal | 49 | |
Plagues & Other Predicaments | 73 | |
Courtly Love, & Not-So-Very | 87 | |
Crusades & Pilgrimages, here We Come | 113 | |
Persecution Mania, Witch-burning Madness | 139 | |
The Joy of Sects - 31 Flavors of Religious Life | 157 | |
A Lust for Wander: Gotta Get Outta This Zip Code | 181 | |
Got a Brain, Not Afraid to Use It | 205 | |
Bibliography | 231 | |
Index | 235 |