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Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife
The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
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Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife
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Amy Noble
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Hetta Howes
'A welcome addition to medieval history, giving us a window into the lives of women that many people only know by name, if at all.' PHILIPPA GREGORY, author of The Other Boleyn Girl and Normal Women
A spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history which takes us into the minds and lives of medieval women.
What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives? And how can we hear the stories of women from this period?
Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during medieval times. But remarkably, there are at least four extraordinary women who did. Those women were: Marie de France, a poet; Julian of Norwich, a mystic and anchoress; Christine de Pizan, a widow and court writer; and Margery Kempe, a "no-good wife". In their own ways these four very different writers pushed back against the misogyny of the period. Each of them broke new ground in women’s writing and left us incredible insights into the world of medieval life and politics.
Hetta Howes has spent her working life uncovering these women’s stories to give us a valuable and unique historical biography of their lives that challenges what we hold to be common knowledge about medieval women in Europe. Women did earn money, they could live independent lives, and they thought, loved, fought and suffered just as we do today.
This mesmerising book is an unforgettably lively and immersive journey into the everyday lives of medieval women through the stories of these four iconic women writers, some of which are retold here for general readers for the first time.©2024 Hetta Howes (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A fascinating book about four women - each a heroine in her own way - it tells us so much about their world, and about our own… What jumps off the page is the liveliness of the women, their passion, their courage and their own way of being a woman.
Beautifully written and brilliantly observed, Hetta Howes unlocks the secrets of women’s lives, so often silent and inconspicuous in our histories, and shows us the medieval world as we’ve never seen it before. Full of surprises and packed with thrilling details, this is an important, eye-opening book.
A celebration of female ambition and endeavour... enormous fun.
Meticulously researched... The result is a richly textured portrait that challenges stereotypes and celebrates female resilience and creativity.
Brilliantly revealing.
Lively and enjoyable… The result is illuminating… evokes the spirit of the period so well.
Howes’s book is highly readable and informative.
[An] immensely readable and academically rigorous book, Hetta Howes has succeeded in assimilating a vast array of material about the circumstances and contributions of women in medieval times, when the material is itself scattered, hidden, piecemeal, and prejudiced. This is a valuable contribution to our understanding. (Claire Gilbert)
Hetta Howes unflinchingly explores the trials medieval women faced and, importantly, how they fought back.
Weaving research, political insight and the women’s own words, this is a brilliant portrait of four trailblazers.
This meticulously researched book makes visible so much that popular models of medieval life have found inconvenient or uninteresting to accommodate: female friendship, lesbianism, pregnancy support, and above all the endless negotiations, compromises and sleights-of-hand which women must constantly enact to survive, then as now.
Hetta Howes approaches four pathbreaking women writers much as they approached medieval society's limitations on them: with narrative agency, innovation, and even a touch of irreverence. Her witty and amusing portrait reveals some astonishing truths: that these medieval women not only existed and held their own--but that their experiences of life, marriage, career, sex, and society are remarkably akin to our own.
With expert knowledge and manifest enthusiasm, Howes uses four very different women as jumping-off points from which to discuss medieval women’s lifespan and experiences, from marriage and love, to work and friendship, to power, achievement, and death. Engaging, authoritative, and original.
A spirited, sparky, and brisk account. With verve and brio, Howes takes the reader into medieval society via some of its most eloquent women, making them approachable and relevant to the world today.
In this engrossing début work, medieval historian Howes explores the lives of four women.
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