This got here with another episode of the History and Plug podcast.

Before Alexander Hamilton became the most popular historical celebrity of the 20 teens,

thanks to the release of the hip-rod-way musical Hamilton, the biggest historical celebrity

of the early 20th century was Joan of Arc.

Flopper has copied her short hairstyle, silent movies were made about her, and she was the

unofficial symbol of suffragents.

What's interesting is that many of them didn't glaw on to her image because she was somehow

pushing back against an oppressive male order during the high middle ages, for rather,

because she represented the time in history when women had more rights than they did in

the 20th century.

This might seem odd because today a lot of people consider the middle ages as a blottersy

time of Vikings, Saints and Kings, the male dominated society that oppressed an excluded

woman.

Today's guests, Yannina Ramirez, argues that that was not the case at all.

She's the author of the new book Femina, a new history of the middle ages through the

women written out of it.

She argues that, what we see, women have been striking influence all throughout the medieval

period.

From Atholflade and Atholwin, back-to-back female rulers and Anglo-Saxon England, to the

designers of the biotapistry, one of the most important historical artifacts we have,

tells us all sorts of things about the Norman Conquest of England.

To the scientists, heildegard of Bingan, writer, composer, philosopher, and mystic, and considered

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