Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2178
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Dennis , George T.
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  • Title: Woman Repels Pirates: Note in a Florentine Manuscript [a brief notice in a Greek manuscript describes a woman archer who in 1341 drove away two pirate ships; includes Greek text and English translation].
  • Source: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 23, ( 1999): Pages 256 - 257. The English translation of the Greek text was reprinted in Medieval Warfare: A Reader, edited by Kelly DeVries and Michael Livingston. University of Toronto Press, 2019. Page 258.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Edition of Text;Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Editing Texts Greece Greek Literature Makouraino, Female Archer Warfare and Warriors
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  • Geographic Area: Eastern Mediterranean
  • Century: 14
  • Primary Evidence: Manuscript; Florence, Mediceo-Laurentian Library, Conventi soppressi, 20, fol. 73v. The note follows a poem on meter and is dated 1341 in the margin.
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  • Author's Affiliation: Catholic University
  • Conference Info: - , -
  • Year of Publication: 1999.
  • Language: English;Greek
  • ISSN/ISBN: 03070131