The Most Powerful Women in the Middle Ages, Part 1: Queens, Empresses, and Viking Slayers

Published: Aug. 21, 2018, 7:10 a.m.

The idea of a powerful woman in the Middle Ages seems like an oxymoron. Females in this time are imagined to be damsels in distress, trapped in a high tower, and waiting for knights to rescue them, all while wearing traffic-cones for a hat. After...