Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 23880
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Ramón Muntaner , Don
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  • Title: A Profitable Sideline to Gardening (1283) [From Chronicle]
  • Source: The Broadview Book of Medieval Anecdotes.  Edited by Richard Kay, compiler.  Broadview Press, 1988.  Pages 257 - 258.
  • Description: A woman named Marcadera went to gather herbs outside the wall of her besieged town. When she encountered an enemy French soldier on horseback, she attacked with her lance and took him prisoner.
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Warfare and Warriors Women in Active Roles
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  • Geographic Area: Iberia
  • Century: 13
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  • Year of Publication: 1988.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0921149255