Who were famous women who lived in the Renaissance period?

Answer 1

Queen Margaret I of Denmark ruled as sovereign and united Denmark with Sweden, Norway and Iceland. She soundly defeated an army sent against her and was quite powerful.

Ethelfleda was a sovereign Queen of Mercia and was pretty good at kicking the Vikings around.

Hildegard of Bingen was a visionary who wrote books about medicinal herbs, wrote a play and composed music for it, which we still have and can read.

Empress Mathilda, claimant to the throne of England. After being challenged by her cousin Stephen, they fought a civil war that lasted for almost two decades.

Eleanor of Aquitaine was an important cultural leader and lead an armed company of women on crusade.

Marie de France was an important poet, though we known practically nothing else about her.

There were a number of sovereign empresses of the Byzantine Empire, including Empress Irene and Empress Theodora.

Hedwig was queen of Poland for a number of years. Interestingly she had herself crowned as king to point out that she was monarch.

Isabella of France, queen of England. She turned against her husband and ruled England for 3 years after his murder.

Margaret of Anjou, queen of England, raised armies during the Wars of the Roses to protect the rights of Henry VI.

Joan of Arc, military leader and greatest inspiration for the French revival during the 100 years war.

Yolande of Aragon, power behind the indolent Charles VII and possibly behind the acceptance of Joan of Arc.

Christine de Pizan, french writer and early feminist.

Answer 2

Joan of Arc, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, Lady Isabel de Montfort ( another Girl knight- she survived her missions- and was a crossbow expert to boot) , Queen Isabella of Spain also in the Female Knight category, though she was at the tail end of the Middle Ages- with the discoveries of Task Force 92 ( Commodore Columbus in charge!) well the modern era had dawned.

Answer 3

1st Answer

No. First no one could write nor read so the only people with books or writing books were monks. All the way into the late 1700's women on stage was not allowed. Women had no rights in the middle ages.

2nd Answer

Women certainly were authors and actors. They were active in other performing arts professionally, and there are dozens of female troubadours whose names are known.

I can only think of one actress of the Middle Ages, and that was Empress Theodora, the consort of Emperor Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire. I do not recall having seen others, but I know she was looked down on because actresses had a bad reputation. The very fact that they had a reputation tells you that there were more than one. Women were excluded from some types of performances in some places. I would be surprised if they were excluded from mummings, as these plays generally broke the normal rules, but they might have been.

As to Authors, those I can think of offhand include Margery Kempe, Christine de Pizan, Marie de France, Hildegard of Binged, and Julian of Norwich. There were many others whose names to not come to mind easily just now. Margery Kempe was particularly interesting because despite the fact that she was of common rank and without any connections to nobility, she was one of the most well travelled women in Europe and wrote what is regarded as the first autobiography in the English language.

Medieval women authors were not all operating in literature. Trotula of Salerno was a physician who wrote extensively on women's health.

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Answer 4

rasheed and lucy was two of the famouse women is the renaissance period and they alos had connection with mashti.