Evaluate the importance of women in two medieval wars.

Candidates will make an appraisal of the importance of women in two wars. While the focus of the response must be within the timeframe of this topic, the two wars need not have occurred at the same time but they may or may not be chosen from the same region. Candidates may evaluate the role of individual women or, alternatively, choose to evaluate the role of women in general. They may, for example, evaluate women’s military role as warriors or leaders, or their roles in replacing or supporting absent men, perhaps as regents or managers of estates. Importance may be gauged by their impact on the outcomes of wars or their value in enabling men to fight and supporting them at war. Each war may be considered separately or a thematic approach adopted.