Posts Tagged ‘women warriors’
From the Archives: Madeleine Caulier Goes To War
At the moment, I’m deep in a chapter about women who disguised themselves as men and enlisted as soldiers–the subject of the blog post below. I know a lot more about the subject than I did when I wrote this post back in 2013. And while I still think all their stories sound much the…
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Fighting the Roman Empire
Back many moons ago when I was writing the proposal for this book I’m writing,* one of the first women I wrote about was Boudica, the Celtic woman who led an uprising against the Romans and almost kicked them out of Britain in 60 BCE. One of key elements in her story, at least from…
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Was She Or Wasn’t She?
If you’ve been hanging out in the on-line places where history and science–and, occasionally, the history of science–intersect over the last week or so,* you’ve read articles with tiles that are variations on “a female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics”–the title of the scholarly article that first appeared in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology…
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