Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, through the Women Written Out of It.

Author / Editor
Ramirez, Janina.

Title
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, through the Women Written Out of It.

Published
London: W. H. Allen, 2022; Toronto: Hanover Square, 2023.

Physical Description
xv, 447 pp.; illus.

Description
Includes a brief summary of KnT and posits that the petitioning of Theseus by the Theban women may have inspired the "final act" of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison when she reached "towards the king's horse" at the Epsom Derby of 1913. Also notes that, as a child, Wilding Davison adopted the pen name “Emelye.”

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Knight and His Tale