Word: petronilla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women chosen for the table each made some kind of contribution to society; each, too, attempted to improve the conditions of women during their lives. And each struggled with her own creativity in a hostile world. Many are unknown--Petronilla de Meath, for example, burned as a witch in Ireland in the fourteenth century. She symbolizes the persecution of women in medieval times, a persecution more gory but no more tragic than that which exists till this...
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