Recs if you like Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women...

Nonfiction titles concerning events, people, and history from the Medieval/Early Modern periods! Many of these are suggestions from the PB community as shared in the Medieval Times quest forum.

Recommendations always welcome!

The majority of history has been, and still is, written by men. Even when men write about women in history, they often get it wrong, distort the truth to fit moral or political narratives, or just plain have no idea what the female experience is so they miss what’s actually important.

Here is a list of some of history written by female authors, who are looking at history through their female gaze - not through the lense of what men have decided is history.

Suggestions welcome!

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Non fiction books about history (mainly ancient and medieval) and mythology

turns out when you wanna write a book, you have to read a lot of books first. wild.

(some of these i've already read, some are on my tbr, some are on my wishlist...)