Femina: The instant Sunday Times bestseller – A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

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Falls ihr aber - wie ich - gerne mehr über Frauen* im Mittelalter erfahren möchtet und Bock auf ein Sachbuch der etwas anderen Art habt, kann ich euch Janina Ramirez beeindruckendes Werk sehr ans Herz legen! But I think that questioning and challenging assumptions is what she would expect her readers to do. She has also written and presented a number of documentaries for BBC4 and Radio Four, and is a regular guest presenter of Front Row. I have been a fan of Janina Ramirez for a few years and she (for me) makes history come alive whether on TV or on the page.

Ramírez draws her evidence from art and architecture as well as written texts to add context to her narrative, and joyfully gives life to the subjects of her chapters with quirky details.Again, there was a Horrible Histories related fact that caught my eye - the Roman Emperor Elagabalus apparently liked to be referred to by female pronouns and allegedly discussed gender reassignment surgery.

To compare, the 2021 London census reported around sixty percent of the population as white and the remaining forty percent as Asian, Black, mixed, and other, encouraging a re-evaluation of London’s medieval streets as similarly cosmopolitan and diverse. Although it does not appear Eleanor was prosecuted for either crime, their testimony evinces involvement with members of the clergy, monks, and nuns, suggesting that their arrest was about moral corruption by high-status individuals rather than prostitution or sodomy.I found every chapter interesting and thought provoking, and liked the way Ramírez used her topics to debunk myths about the Middle Ages and demonstrate how there are more similarities with our modern world than we may like to think. Generell hat das Buch leider keinen erkennbaren roten Faden: es handelt sich um eine Aneinandereihung von Biographien von Frauen und Essays über Personengruppen bzw .

As the author admits the book covers only a handful of women, so might I ask…how is individual success of a few women supposed to change the way we see the middle ages? In Femina, Ramirez—a cultural historian, author, and broadcaster— intends to re-evaluate the status of women in the Middle Ages whose names have been ‘struck from the historical record due to the one word annotated beside them – FEMINA. Janina Ramirez wirbelt mit ihrem Sachbuch "Femina: Eine neue Geschichte des Mittelalters aus Sicht der Frauen", übersetzt von Karin Schuler, genau diese Geschichtsschreibung gehörig durcheinander und erweckt die Frauen des Mittelalters wieder zum Leben, die so lange vergessen bzw. There is an irking sense that these prominent women overshadow the over-written or simply forgotten women that make Femina so wonderful. Femina has great content and information on the great women in history that were written out for whatever reasons.Only now, through a careful examination of the artifacts, writings and possessions they left behind, are the influential and multifaceted lives of women emerging. But the actual writing and stories wasn’t thrilling… a big focus on items rather than people’s histories… a few standout moments like the early chapter on Vikings and the last chapter on migration, race and sexuality but the middle parts bored me. The subtitle also suggests there will be more about women in general, rather than focusing solely on the stories of these women who are by definition exceptional. My overall impression is of the book trying to make a larger argument (thesis) from a collection of engaging essays about medieval women who were influential in their time. Vagabonds was very open and matter-of-fact about its attempt to put people back into history, and The Dark Queens pretty much got stuck in to its version of Game Of Thrones.