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Title: Uppity Women of the Renaissance by Vicki Leon ISBN: 1-57324-127-X Publisher: Conari Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: More stories of famous and forgotten women
Comment: Another entertaining collection of mini biographies of women from the well-known to the obscure. one or two of the stories slightly puzled me. For instance, there is an interesting story about a doctor trying to concot a remedy for the plague out of badgers, but his wife's role seems to consisted of dying of the plague, not a particularly uppity thing to do, couldn't quite see what she was doing there. Also Vicki leon, rather oddly ,seems to have swallowed all that nonsense about the Renaissance being a time when individuality was born etc, it's as if she hasn't read her earlier book 'Uppity Women of Medieval Times' which is full of individuals. @Renaiisance' was a term invented in the 19th century to describe something that never actually happened, individuality, art.learning etc flourished throughout the Middle Ages, there was no 'Renaissance'. Also she is still going on about witchhunts being a 'holocaust'(insulting to vicitms of the real holocaust. The number of people executed as witches wasfar fewer than she claims, they were not all women, and the imputus for witchhunts came from commoners, not from the church or the state. But anyway, these stories of interesting women are fun to read, and I always find lots of women I'd never heard of before. Another fun read.
Rating: 5
Summary: I loved this Book!
Comment: Uppity Women of the Renaissance by Vicki Leon is a pleasure to read and it's a book you'll keep going back to. Leon knows how to make history fun and she has a knack for finding the most interesting characters from the past, and then bringing them back to life.
If you've never read one of Vicki Leon's books, you're in for a real treat. Give one as a present to a reluctant reader, give one to yourself!
Ms Leon is not just an excellent writer, but is also a fine historian. She has made it her mission to discover long lost women with spunk and brains, and to bring them to the public's eye. I'm a big fan of her's and have every book she's written. I especially like to give them as gifts since they are that rare combination of spirit, fun, frolic, sassiness, seriousness, and real history. Uppity Women of the Renaissance is one of Ms. Leon's very best. Highly recommended.
Rating: 3
Summary: Amusing - yes. Educational - not really.
Comment: Not too bad as far as coffee table books go. All the articles are short - a few hundred words - and there are plenty of B/W pictures to break the text up. This is a book I'd be happy my teenage daughter reading to get her interested in thinking outside the 'norm' of historical research but she wouldn't learn much from it (this book).
A nice, light, amusing read that isn't going to offend anyone and might just entertain or inspire along the way.
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Title: Uppity Women of Medieval Times by Vicki Leon ISBN: 1573240397 Publisher: Conari Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Uppity Women of the New World (Uppity Women Series) by Vicki Leon ISBN: 1573241873 Publisher: Conari Press Pub. Date: 30 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Uppity Women of Ancient Times by Vicki Leon, Conari Press ISBN: 1573240109 Publisher: Conari Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Outrageous Women of the Renaissance by Vicki León ISBN: 0471296848 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 11 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Uppity Women of Shakespearean Times by Vicki Leon ISBN: 1567313736 Publisher: Fine Communications Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.98 |
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