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Authors: Vicki Leon
ISBN-13: 9781573240390, ISBN-10: 1573240397
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Date Published: May 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Vicki Leon

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

When Uppityhood Twas in Flower
Making hay in the Middle Ages1
Axes to Grind, Places to Pillage25
Credit Problems of the Frankly Feudal49
Plagues & Other Predicaments73
Courtly Love, & Not-So-Very87
Crusades & Pilgrimages, here We Come113
Persecution Mania, Witch-burning Madness139
The Joy of Sects - 31 Flavors of Religious Life157
A Lust for Wander: Gotta Get Outta This Zip Code181
Got a Brain, Not Afraid to Use It205
Bibliography231
Index235

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