Professor Janina Ramirez is a Sunday Times bestselling author, Oxford lecturer, BBC broadcaster and researcher. She is Director of Studies for History of Art at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, and Visiting Professor in Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln. She has published widely on medieval history, art and literature, has written both fiction and non-fiction for adults and younger readers, and has taught and researched across a broad chronological sweep, covering everything from the sculptures of antiquity to post-modern architecture. She has also written and presented documentaries across the world for over 15 years. She is Lifelong President of Gloucester History Festival, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Royal Society of Arts, Universities of York and Gloucestershire and City Lit. Her book Femina was an instant Sunday Times bestseller.
Revelatory... Ramirez shows again and again that dark age Europe
was a far more various place than we like to believe
*Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian*
One of Femina's greatest strengths is that it is not just a
collection of medieval heroines, although there are inspirational
stories aplenty in its pages, 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
*The Sunday Times*
It's about time these stories had a wider audience. They've been
waiting long enough.
*Spectator*
Passionate, provocative and brilliant, this book is a firecracker
somehow captured between two covers
*Lucy Worsley, bestselling author of Agatha Christie: A Very
Elusive Woman*
Beautifully written, wonderfully free-ranging and gloriously
original, Femina makes us look into the mists of history in new,
exciting and provocative ways. A joyous read
*Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk Roads*
Absolutely brilliant and highly recommended
*Caitlin Moran, bestselling author of How To Be a Woman*
Janina Ramirez is a born storyteller, and in Femina she is at the
peak of her powers. This is bravura narrative history underpinned
by passionate advocacy for the women whom medieval history has too
often ignored or overlooked. Femina is essential reading for anyone
who is interested in the Middle Ages and its place in the modern
mind
*Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantagenets and Powers and
Thrones*
The women of the Middle Ages, so often silent and inconspicuous in
our histories, find voice, agency and justice in this brilliant
book
*Alice Roberts, bestselling author of Ancestors:A prehistory of
Britain in seven burials*
Femina is an important addition to our understanding of a period
still - mistakenly - thought to have excluded women from positions
of power and significance. Femina skillfully brings out from the
shadows the lives of women who ruled, fought, traded, created, and
inspired
*Cat Jarman, bestselling author of River Kings: A New History of
Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads*
Spellbinding, passionate, gripping and magnificently fresh in tone,
boldly wide in range, elegantly written, deeply researched, Femina
is a ground-breaking history of the Middle Ages. It brings the
world to life with women at its very heart, centre stage where they
belong. What a delight.
*Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem: The Biography*
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