Table of Contents
Welcome Page
About Unquiet Women
Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
Chapter One: Portraits
Egeria the pilgrim
The Spitalfields sarcophagus
Handmaids of God
Hypatia of Alexandria
St Brigit of Kildare
Hestia, goddess of the hearth
The Quiet Woman
Chapter Two: Legacies
Empress Wu Zhao
The weavers of West Stow
La Señora de Cao
Cain Adomnain: the first laws for women
St ?thelthryth
The Trumpington bed burial
Chapter Three: Testaments
Wynfl?d’s will
The women from the Oseberg ship burial
?thelfl?d: ‘Lady of the Mercians’
Of al-Andalus and Gandersheim
Dhuoda: a mother’s handbook for her son
Anna Comnena
Chapter Four: Chosen paths
Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir
Seeresses and cunning-women
Trota, the medic of Salerno
A Mochica stirrup vessel
Peace-weavers, war-spinners
A female Viking warrior’s grave?
Chapter Five: Hard times
Christina of Markyate
Of Bayeux and Domesday
Chambres des dames - women’s workshops
Heloïse and Abelard
Trials and tribulations
Women in virtual landscapes
Chapter Six: A room of one’s own
Beatrice de Planisoles
Begin the beguines
Margery Kempe: Alewife, miller, mystic
The Book of the City of Ladies
A tale of three marriages
Chapter Seven: New worlds
Queen Njinga of Ndongo
Two native women: Malintzin and Anacaona
Matriarchs of Chaco Canyon
Anne Bradstreet: High and Mighty
The will of Ana de la Calle
Chapter Eight: The unquiet chorus
Three faces of Artemisia Gentileschi
Malice Defeated: Elizabeth Cellier
Mary Astell’s Serious Proposal
Celia Fiennes
Postscript: New trajectories
Plate Section
Bibliography and further reading
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
About Max Adams
Also by Max Adams
An Invitation from the Publisher
Copyright