Perhaps that is a point that Leyser wanted to make. Bridget of Sweden and her daughters fight their way in even if Joan of Arc doesn't. The reality of the book undermines the subtitle, there can't be a history – a narrative – of all women, covering a thousand years and more, even if one only considers England not that Leyser does that exclusively, St. It makes for a curious reading experience, like wandering through the bare bones of a very much longer book that hasn't yet been written. The chapters, bar one or two references, are not interlinked, you could read them as free-standing, well not as free-standing essays because the chapters plainly are not like essays – they pose no one question and come to no one answer. That was my experience of reading this book – the closest thing I've ever come across to a historical If on a Winter's Night a traveller.Įach chapter covers different topic Archaeology, History & Hagiography, Law Codes, Vernacular Literature, 1066 for Women, Sex Marriage & Motherhood, Women at Work, Widows, Female Monasticism, Anchoresses and Recluses, Lay Piety, Literary Interests & Images. From there your companion points out below the flash of sunlight on a distant stream, a stretch of path emerging then disappearing among the trees, a corner of a glade. You've climbed up through woodland to the summit of a hill.
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