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Elisabeth van Houts (born 1952) – medieval European history; Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949) – Frankish and Carolingian history; Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker (born 1940) – specialist in the position of women during the Middle Ages; Mayke de Jong (born 1950) – political and religious history of the early Middle Ages; Eileen Power (1889 ...
Women of different classes performed different activities: rich urban women could be merchants like their husbands or even became money lenders; middle-class women worked in the textile, inn-keeping, shop-keeping, and brewing industries; while poorer women often peddled and huckstered foods and other merchandise in the market places, or worked ...
Medieval women scientists (1 C, 9 P) W. Women in medieval warfare (7 C, 37 P) Women writers (medieval) (26 C) Pages in category "Medieval women"
Along with composer George Antheil, they developed radio frequency-hopping as a radio-guiding system for American torpedoes during World War II (which was ahead of its time and eventually used in ...
"The woman warrior: gender, warfare and society in medieval Europe" Women's Studies – an Interdisciplinary Journal 17 (1990), pp. 193–209. Nicholson, Helen. "Women on the Third Crusade", Journal of Medieval History 23 (1997), pp. 335–449. Solterer, Helen. "Figures of Female Militancy in Medieval France," Signs 16 (1991), pp. 522–549 ...
Female saints of medieval Wales (1 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Christian female saints of the Middle Ages" The following 132 pages are in this category, out of 132 total.
Common free women may have been found spinning as well as weaving. [1] An important figure in poetry, especially the Beowulf poem, high status women are depicted serving drinks for company and family. [6] Women of this time were also entertainers, comedians, and singers, and may have been employed by households or travelling groups. [1]
Lynn, John. "Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge University Press, 2008) McLaughlin, Megan. "The Woman Warrior: Gender, Warfare and Society in Medieval Europe." Women's Studies (1990) 17: 193–209. Martino, Gina M. Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast. (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).