Thank you! 💜💜💜 I absolutely love, love, love that! Thank you for sharing that with me. May women continue to influence!!!! 🥂
I was really deep in research on the Hundred Years War a few months back and found this fascinating off-story about a 'Captain's wife' whom actually stirred a town into action because her husband was nowhere to be found. Her name is completely lost to history, but the town's refusal to cow-toe to the English is still studied today. A testament to how deeply ingrained patriarchal prejudice is. We know her husband's name, we know he defected to the English, we know she roused the entire town and stirred them to action, forcing the English to reroute, yet no one once thought to look back to ensure her name survived? Wild. Thank you for spending time with my words! 💜💜
How I wish my mother was alive to read this. She because fascinated by Medieval women in her 70s—and in the 1970s. Her love of history fed my love of history that gave me a career in teaching women’s history for 25 years. Thank you for your writing🙏.
Oh my goodness, this just means so much. Thank you for sharing this with me! Your mother sounds like a phenomenally interesting and influential woman. Isn’t it incredible how powerful women influence us to hunger for more knowledge? Thank you for spending your precious time with my words and these women! 💜
This was a fascinating read! Thank you for putting it together. There’s a book called Her Keys to the City that honours the women of Dublin (reminded me of what you’re doing here). A local artist where I live did an exhibition where each piece was given the name of a what would have been a well known women of her time but is being forgotten as her name isn’t recorded. She said some women would’ve been so famous but she couldn’t find hardly any information about them. History is written by the patriarchy.
Oh my goodness, thank you for sharing that with me. I am absolutely looking up that book, sounds incredible. And thank you for spending time with my words <3
A few years back I was attending a civil rights conference and one of the break out groups paired us with random folks from the crowd, I ended up paired with an art history professor at the local university. His particular research topic was recrediting women artists of the Middle Ages. Though we deviated a bit from the breakout proposed topic, our short time together was such a fabulous conversation that really reaffirmed my want to bring as many medieval women back to life as possible. Women's words will beat the patriarchal narratives, I'm sure of it.
Oh wow, what a great person to chat with. As I am enjoying chatting to you! Historical feminism, I love it, resurrect or bring to life all those women’s names is charity work! Let me know if you do check out the book what you think 😊
Thank you for taking time with my words and these incredible women. This one was hard to write, as I just wanted to keep reading more... and more... and more! They were all so phenomenal in their own right. Such a shame we are mostly deprived of their voices.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for spending you precious time here! It truly means so much.
Of course! I've been subscribed for a long while, I think for most of this Year of Our Lord 2024. Fascinating stuff you've got here. Since you covered Hildegard of Bingen, arguably the godmother and biggest pioneer of modern music as we know it, a future expansion covering Barbara Strozzi might be cool to dive into. I also love Eleanor of Aquitaine's story, the Widow Queen and one of the many oft-forgotten totally badass women of history.
But, time is limited, as you mentioned. So much material to cover, so little time…I often have to cut pieces short because reader attention isn't infinitive, even though I have so much to research/read/write/say. It's a perpetual battle.
Wonderful read! It makes me think about all the women we don’t know about that were erased from history. It’s got my creative mind thinking.
Thank you! 💜💜💜 I absolutely love, love, love that! Thank you for sharing that with me. May women continue to influence!!!! 🥂
I was really deep in research on the Hundred Years War a few months back and found this fascinating off-story about a 'Captain's wife' whom actually stirred a town into action because her husband was nowhere to be found. Her name is completely lost to history, but the town's refusal to cow-toe to the English is still studied today. A testament to how deeply ingrained patriarchal prejudice is. We know her husband's name, we know he defected to the English, we know she roused the entire town and stirred them to action, forcing the English to reroute, yet no one once thought to look back to ensure her name survived? Wild. Thank you for spending time with my words! 💜💜
Great post! As a former double major in history and women's studies, all your work is music to my angry, tired ears. Keep it up!
Thank YOU! I am so grateful you shared that with me, thank you. It means so much.
These stories are fuel to our fire, or perhaps words to our songs, and we will not stop singing them. 💜
How I wish my mother was alive to read this. She because fascinated by Medieval women in her 70s—and in the 1970s. Her love of history fed my love of history that gave me a career in teaching women’s history for 25 years. Thank you for your writing🙏.
Oh my goodness, this just means so much. Thank you for sharing this with me! Your mother sounds like a phenomenally interesting and influential woman. Isn’t it incredible how powerful women influence us to hunger for more knowledge? Thank you for spending your precious time with my words and these women! 💜
YEESSSS! Love that you too are obsessed with getting these women's voices more widely known! 🙌❤️🔥
Thank you!! I am so grateful to be in community with women such as yourself, Freya!!!!!
This was a fascinating read! Thank you for putting it together. There’s a book called Her Keys to the City that honours the women of Dublin (reminded me of what you’re doing here). A local artist where I live did an exhibition where each piece was given the name of a what would have been a well known women of her time but is being forgotten as her name isn’t recorded. She said some women would’ve been so famous but she couldn’t find hardly any information about them. History is written by the patriarchy.
Oh my goodness, thank you for sharing that with me. I am absolutely looking up that book, sounds incredible. And thank you for spending time with my words <3
A few years back I was attending a civil rights conference and one of the break out groups paired us with random folks from the crowd, I ended up paired with an art history professor at the local university. His particular research topic was recrediting women artists of the Middle Ages. Though we deviated a bit from the breakout proposed topic, our short time together was such a fabulous conversation that really reaffirmed my want to bring as many medieval women back to life as possible. Women's words will beat the patriarchal narratives, I'm sure of it.
Oh wow, what a great person to chat with. As I am enjoying chatting to you! Historical feminism, I love it, resurrect or bring to life all those women’s names is charity work! Let me know if you do check out the book what you think 😊
This is exceptionally good, with some of my favorite historical figures here (not everyday someone dives in to Héloïse and Hildegard of Bingen).
Flawless.
Thank you for taking time with my words and these incredible women. This one was hard to write, as I just wanted to keep reading more... and more... and more! They were all so phenomenal in their own right. Such a shame we are mostly deprived of their voices.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for spending you precious time here! It truly means so much.
Of course! I've been subscribed for a long while, I think for most of this Year of Our Lord 2024. Fascinating stuff you've got here. Since you covered Hildegard of Bingen, arguably the godmother and biggest pioneer of modern music as we know it, a future expansion covering Barbara Strozzi might be cool to dive into. I also love Eleanor of Aquitaine's story, the Widow Queen and one of the many oft-forgotten totally badass women of history.
But, time is limited, as you mentioned. So much material to cover, so little time…I often have to cut pieces short because reader attention isn't infinitive, even though I have so much to research/read/write/say. It's a perpetual battle.
It really is incredible how many women have just been omitted or overwritten in history to focus on men's accomplishments.
WOW WOW WOW
Thank you for spending time with my words and uplifting them!! ❤️❤️
Amazing post! Thank you for doing this work!
Thank you for spending your precious time here, I am so grateful! And for seeing the effort put into compiling these stories, thank you. 💜