Medieval Women: A Girl Worth Simping For
The medieval period in Europe is so interesting because it is at once disregarded as a dark time with little education, and yet, one has merely to look at a cathedral or a stained glass window or read Dante, and wonder that this reputation may be undeserved.
Feminists, especially, emphasise that all times in history before the feminist doctrines were imposed upon society were difficult, depraved and barbaric times for women. But we may get a glimpse of what it was really like for women in the thirteenth century by looking at the lives of a few women in particular and of many women in general through the imprints they left in their work and the poetry written about them.
What I’ve discovered is that medieval women were not only likely intelligent, powerful and grounded, but they had an allure to them that modern women would be desperate to recapture.
