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The idea of a powerful girl in the centre Ages seems as an oxymoron. Females in this time are dreamed to be damsels in stress, trapped in a higher tower, and looking forward to knights to rescue them, all while putting on traffic-cones for a head wear. After save, their lives better little. Their career options were to be either docile queens, housewives, or be burned at the stake for witchcraft. But imagine if this image of middle ages women is a whole fiction? As it happens that it is. Powerful feminine rulers fill the Middle Age range. Anglo-Saxon queen Aethelflaed individually led armies into direct combat with Vikings in the 900s and kept England from overseas invasion. Byzantine Empress Theodora stored the empire from dropping apart through the Nika Revolts and halted her partner Justinian from fleeing Constantinople. Catherine of Siena almost single-handedly restored the papacy to Rome in the 1300s and navigated the brutal and male-dominated world of Italian politics. Joan of Arc completely reversed the fortunes of France in the Hundred Years War and commanded assaults on British fortresses despite being an illiterate 17-year-old peasant. This audiobook will look at the lives of the ten most effective women in the Middle Ages. Whether it's the famed scholar Anna Komnene, who composed the first narrative record, or Ottoman Queen Mother Kosem Sultan, who ruled the Islamic empire through three of her sons - each one of these women held amazing levels of electric power at the same time when women were thought to not have any. It will explore the way they were able to ascend the throne, what made their achievements so noteworthy, and the impact they had on their particular societies after their fatalities. It will express the historical track record of these women, their civilizations, and what about it helped or hindered their climb. Their testimonies still echo right down to today. They can be a testimony to the resiliency of people to accomplish amazing things, even if population sets on them enormous constraints.
