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A review by lucyatoz
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages by Janina Ramírez
adventurous
challenging
informative
medium-paced
4.0
For Women's History Month 2024, I read Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it by Janina Ramirez. It is an interesting telling of history, with details on physical archaeology and historic documents punctuated with research from new scientific methodology, such as DNA analysis, weaved with a fictional narrative, which is mainly sensible, to round out each chapter.
Each chapter tells the story of some well-known and some much lesser known women starting with the Suffragettes Movement of the late 1800's and early 1900's before moving onto women from the Middle Ages including Hildegard of Bingen, the Birka Warrior, Jadwiga, Aethelflaed, Margery Kemp and Cathars. We are taken around Europe as we learn about each of these women and the world in which they lived.
I own a copy of this book and listened to it on cloudLibrary. I read this for prompt 39, non-fiction recommended by a friend, for the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge 2024.
Each chapter tells the story of some well-known and some much lesser known women starting with the Suffragettes Movement of the late 1800's and early 1900's before moving onto women from the Middle Ages including Hildegard of Bingen, the Birka Warrior, Jadwiga, Aethelflaed, Margery Kemp and Cathars. We are taken around Europe as we learn about each of these women and the world in which they lived.
I own a copy of this book and listened to it on cloudLibrary. I read this for prompt 39, non-fiction recommended by a friend, for the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge 2024.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny and Religious bigotry
Moderate: War, Antisemitism, Sexual content, and Violence
Minor: Cursing