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Medieval Dynasty is a survival-strategy role-playing game developed by Render Cube and published by Toplitz Productions in 2021. [2] The game is part of the publisher's Dynasty series, where players, from the perspective of a character, establish a new dynasty within a thematic setting—in this case, from the viewpoint of common people in the Middle Ages.
In spite of the patriarchal medieval European culture, [44] which posited female inferiority, opposed female independence, [36] so that female workers could not contract out their labour services without their husband's' approval, [45] widows have been recorded to act as independent economic agents; meanwhile, a married woman—mostly from ...
Like the study of the humours, menstruation could be used to determine the health of a woman, her character, and even her intellectual ability. [2] Saint Cecilia was famously put into a bath of boiling water, but, due to her cold female body, was not affected. [3] Like menstrual blood, female vaginal discharge could be used to determine character.
In modern times the name, with the spelling "Tanith", has been used as a female given name, both for real people and, more frequently, in occult fiction. From the 5th century BC onwards, Tanit is associated with that of Ba`al Hammon. She is given the epithet pene baal ("face of Baal") and the title rabat, the female form of rab (chief).
"The woman warrior: gender, warfare and society in medieval Europe" Women's Studies – an Interdisciplinary Journal 17 (1990), pp. 193–209. Nicholson, Helen. "Women on the Third Crusade", Journal of Medieval History 23 (1997), pp. 335–449. Solterer, Helen. "Figures of Female Militancy in Medieval France," Signs 16 (1991), pp. 522–549 ...
The loathly lady (Welsh: dynes gas, Motif D732 in Stith Thompson's motif index), is a tale type commonly used in medieval literature, most famously in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale. [1] The motif is that of a woman who appears unattractive (ugly, loathly ) but undergoes a transformation upon being approached by a man in spite of ...
“The Anatomy of Power and the Miracle of Kingship: The Female Body of Sovereignty in a Medieval Irish Kingship Tale.” Speculum 81 (4): 1014–54. Gregory Toner, Manifestations of Sovereignty in Medieval Ireland , H. M. Chadwick Memorial Lectures, 29 (Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 2018 ...
In Europe, the development of the office of lady-in-waiting is connected to that of the development of a royal court. During the Carolingian Empire, in the 9th century, Hincmar describes the royal household of Charles the Bald in the De Ordine Palatii, from 882, in which he states that court officials took orders from the queen as well as the king.