Isabelle Chabot is an historian specialized in the Middle Ages and works at the University of Padua. She published monographs and essays with several publishing houses, such as Marsilio, il Mulino and Ed Sorbonne.
Women in the Middle Ages were not on the battlefields, which made them scarcely visible in an era punctuated by wars. Chronicles and literature of the time recount the exploits of kings, emperors, knights, saints, popes and warriors, as if they were the only subjects that moved human history and imagination. So, battles are the only way to enter history? Fortunately, no. Let’s follow in…