There's nothing like a mad woman...

We all know (or we should, anyway) that history has preferred quiet women. Ideally, women of the ancient and not so ancient world had no thoughts or opinions at all. But if they did, they were expected to keep their mouths shut. For women, speaking out wasn’t just an aberration. It was a violation. A crime, even.

In the 16th century, there was this f*ck…