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Cover 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 Cáin Adomnáin: the first laws for women St Æthelthryth The Trumpington bed burial

Chapter Three: Testaments

Wynflæd’s will The women from the Oseberg ship burial Æthelflæd: ‘Lady of the Mercians’ Of al-Andalus and Gandersheim Dhuoda: a mother’s handbook for her son Anna Comnena

Chapter Four: Chosen paths

Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir 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 Héloïse and Abélard Trials and tribulations Women in virtual landscapes

Chapter Six: A room of one’s own

Béatrice 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