{"id":50,"date":"2015-07-10T17:47:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T17:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swordmaiden.net\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2015-12-10T19:53:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T19:53:13","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/swordmaiden.net\/?page_id=50","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"history\"<\/a><\/h5>\n
A collection of articles about female fighters through history, myth and the SCA.<\/h5>\n

Period Female Warriors<\/h3>\n

Catalina de Erauso<\/a>
\nA excerpt from the autobiography of the Lieutenant Nun, a woman who spent her life fighting under cover as a man.<\/p>\n

Joan of Arc<\/a>
\nArguable the most well known woman in medieval history.<\/p>\n

Maria of Pozzuoli<\/a>
\nAn Italian Soldier in 1343 C.E.<\/p>\n

Sigelgaita<\/a>
\nA Lombardian princess (some times referenced as Gaita) who rode to battle with her husband and rallied the troops.<\/p>\n

Skialdm\u00e6r<\/a>
\nShieldmaids in the Viking Age.<\/p>\n

Walpurgis<\/a>
\nThe woman from the I.33 Manuscript of German sword and buckler fighting from the 1300s.<\/p>\n

Women and Chivalry Podcast<\/a>
\nThe ChivalryToday.com Podcast about Women and Chivalry which explores how women fit into the code of chivalry in medieval history and the modern world.<\/p>\n

Women and the Art of Battle in the Late Middle Ages<\/a>
\nAn overview of women warriors in the late middle ages.<\/p>\n

Women Warriors: Myth or Reality?<\/a>
\nA great overview of women fighters.<\/p>\n

Mythical Female Figures<\/h3>\n

Eleanor of Tortosa<\/a>
\nCamelot\u2019s Lady Knight<\/p>\n

Grendel\u2019s mother<\/a>
\nA passage from Beowulf that references female fighters.<\/p>\n

SCA Female Fighters<\/h3>\n

By Right Of Arms<\/a>
\nQueens and Princesses by Right of Arms in the SCA<\/p>\n

Flowers of Souvenance<\/a>
\nA 15 issue newsletter than began in the late 80s which presented information for the lady fighters and others.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll See Your Six<\/a>
\nAll about Sir Trude and her run in with a mugger in the streets of New York.<\/p>\n

Order of the Oleander<\/a>
\nThe Estrella War favor for women who fight on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

The Beginning<\/a>
\nThis story explains how women came to fight, not fight, then fight again in the SCA.<\/p>\n

To Rowan Beatrice von Kampfer<\/a>
\nA poem about the day Sir Rowan won crown.<\/p>\n

Links<\/h3>\n

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