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Who are some of history's biggest unnamed badasses? (www.wearethemighty.com)
submitted 1 year ago by FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world to c/history@lemmy.world
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Personally, my favorite is the Viking of Stamford Bridge. The thought that one man taking out 40 English soldiers and completely altering history in one epic fight is just awesome, and no one recorded his name.

They just gave him a kickass title instead.

Awesome.

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Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive' (www.science.org)
submitted 1 year ago by BlockPartyDemon@lemmy.world to c/history@lemmy.world
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The coolest medieval woman you've never heard of: Christine de Pizan (weirdmedievalguys.substack.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Dee@lemmy.world to c/history@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/78168

Title explains it, Christine de Pizan was kind of a bamf and you should know about her.

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Waldrada: The Woman Accused of Witchcraft during a Medieval Divorce Scandal (florencehrs.substack.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/78069

A fun read about a royal woman in medieval England who is believed to be the root cause of the kingdom falling. Personally, I like the perspective that she and King Lothar II were actually in love and all the nastiness historians have on Waldra is nothing but the defamation put out by his wife Theutberga. We don't have any way of knowing for sure, but that's how I'm going to interpret this event when I adapt it into my own writing, for the drama 😎