Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, through the Women Written Out of It.
- Author / Editor
- Ramirez, Janina.
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