Unquiet Women: From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment by Max Adams

Unquiet Women: From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment

Max Adams

304 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced

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Unquiet Women is an exquisitely crafted patchwork of the forgotten lives of some of the most remarkable women in history.Wynfl d was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who owned male slaves and badger-skin gowns; Egeria a Gaulish nun who toured the Holy La...

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fast 9%

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