PositiveThe Times (UK)This desire to categorise women as good or bad, and the detrimental impact it has had on our understanding of the past, is at the heart of this engaging new history of the Middle Ages. Janina Ramirez believes that medieval women have too often been silenced by modern historians and their contemporaries ... One of Femina’s greatest strengths is that it is not just a collection of medieval heroines... but also a readable and wide-ranging account of the Middle Ages — with the women put back in — that forces us to look at familiar stories in new ways ... Ramirez, an Oxford lecturer in art history, is also very good on the material culture of the period.
