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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 ...
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 ...
The following is an incomplete list of women monarchs who are well known from popular writings, although many ancient and poorly documented ruling monarchs (such as those from Africa and Oceania) are omitted. Section 1 lists monarchs who ruled in their own right, such as queens regnant. Section 2 lists legendary monarchs.
Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman and first Black person in general to receive a pilot's license. Because of gender and racial discrimination, she learned French and went to ...
"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 ...
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"
Female saints of medieval Wales (1 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Christian female saints of the Middle Ages" The following 131 pages are in this category, out of 131 total.
Adrienne von Speyr; Alexandrina of Balazar; Anna Kingsford; Anna Maria Taigi; Anna Schäffer; Anne Catherine Emmerich (blessed); Bárbara de Santo Domingo; Beatrice of Nazareth Flemish nun