Queen Califia: Amazonian women in the Middle Ages - Deepstash
Queen Califia: Amazonian women in the Middle Ages

Queen Califia: Amazonian women in the Middle Ages

  • Around 1500, a Spaniard named Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo wrote or adapted a series of novels about Amadís, a knight-errant from the fairytale country of Gaula (unconnected with Gaul or Wales).
  • In the stories, Califia was a formidable warrior, with a menagerie of 500 griffins that were fed on human flesh.
  • She lived in a realm called California or Califerne, an island-state near the lands newly discovered by Christopher Columbus.

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