The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages: Queens, Saints, and Viking Slayers, From Empress Theodora to Elizabeth of Tudor

by Michael Rank and Melissa Rank

The idea of a powerful woman in the Middle Ages seems like an oxymoron. Females in this time are imagined to be damsels in distress, trapped in a high tower, and waiting for knights to rescue them, all while wearing traffic-cones for a hat. After rescue, their lives improved little. Their career choices were to be a docile queen, housewife, or be burned at the stake for witchcraft. But what if this image of medieval women is a complete fiction? It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1492173967
• ISBN13: 9781492173960
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"