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Miscellaneous Uppity Women of Medieval Times by Vicki Leon $14.95 / Conari Press / 1997 Author Vicki Leon marches the reader through history with poignant 1 to 2-page snapshots of 200+ courageous, conniving, creative, clever, exciting, passionate, saintly, violent, and astounding spitfires. With a zesty humor relating medieval and contemporary flashpoints, Leon writes, "Who says women can't hold a grudge as well as men? Sixth-century Queens Brunhilda and Fredegund carried on a fourty-year grudge match with enough testosterone to awe even the Serbs and Croats." These dynamic and enjoyable biographies are organized into themes such as: Making Hay in the Middle Ages, Courtly Love and Not-So-Very, Persecution Mania, Witch-Burning Madness, and my favorite, The Joy of Sects, 31 Flavors of Religious Life, among many others. Within these chapters, meet Chiyome, a 16th-century Japanese entrepreneur who starts her own Nijna company, learn why Claire of Assisi is the patron saint of the TV industry, and greet Catalina de Erauso, a nun-turned-sword-slinger who drank, dueled, pillaged, caroused, slept, and crossed-dressed her way across Spain.

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