The Role of Women in the Year 1000: Great Women of the Year 1000!

A playwright who composed the epic poem "The Great," describing the rule of Otto I

• Avicenna
• Trotula of Salerno
• Hroswitha of Gandersheim

• Galen of Pergamon

A rebellious Viking woman who was reluctant to give upon the beliefs of her forfathers

• Sigrid "The Haughty"

• Al-Ghazali
• Al-Ma'mun
• Ibn Zaydun

A distinguished teacher at the medical school in Salerno who was interested in the health issues of women.

• Trotula of Salerno
• Hippocrates of Cos
• Trotula

• Galileo Galilei

A free spirited poet who frequented the vast libraries of Cordoba durning its Moorish heyday.

• Ibn Arabi
• Al-Ma'mun
• Ibn Zaydun
• Walladah bint Mustaki

Fatimid queen who was very involved with the political life of her empire.

• Asma

• Sitt al-Mulk
• Zaynab al-Ghazali
• Amina bint Wahb

A Byzantine Princess who became Saxon Empress, protecting the throne for her young son until he came of age to rule.

• Queen Isabella
• Theophano

• Catherine of Aragon
• Empress Theodora

Empress who was responsible for the deaths of some of her husbands.

• Zoe

• Queen Elizabeth I
• Catherine de' Medici
• Catherine the Great

She wrote the word's first epic novel, The Tale of the Genjii.

• Akiko Yosano
• Yoshiko Shimizu
• Lady Murasaki Shikibu

• Sei Shonagon

A scholarly writer, painter and art collector of great note, specializing in bronze and stone inscriptions

• SIgrid

• Trotula

• LI-Ch'ing chao

• Zoe