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"Early medieval chroniclers, who would probably not have read Plato or Aristotle as they were not translated into Latin until the thirteenth century, often documented the exploits of warrior women without particular comment. The Abbot of Cluny, Peter the Venerable (c. 1092–1156), wrote that ‘it is not altogether exceptional among mortals for women to be in command of men, nor entirely unprecedented for them even to take up arms and accompany men to battle’. The Bishop of Rennes, Marbod (c. 1035–1133), praised the biblical Judith for beheading Holofernes and taking up arms against her enemies. Yet from the thirteenth century onwards, roughly contemporaneous with the translation and circulation of Aristotle and Plato, chroniclers and clerks began to express increasing levels of surprise and outrage at women who participate in military activities."
Medieval Women and War Female Roles in the Old French Tradition, Sophie Harwood