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Queens of Infamy: Boudicca


Queens of Infamy: Boudicca
From the notorious to the half-forgotten, Queens of Infamy,
 a Longreads series by Anne Thériault, focuses on world-historical women of centuries past.

She was tall terrifyingly large, in fact. Her tawny hair fell in a “great mass” to her hips. She was dressed in a colorful tunic and cloak, her outfit completed by a giant fuck-off gold torc. Her voice was harsh, unfeminine. She had spent the last weeks murdering and maiming her way across the British countryside, and now she led a force of hundreds of thousands of Britons in a standoff against the occupying Romans. She had a rabbit hidden in her skirt for occult purposes. She was a bloodthirsty barbarian, devoted to a ghoulish religion, out to destroy the social order of the known world. At least, this is how historian Cassius Dio described Boudicca, a British tribal queen, over one hundred years after her death every civilized man’s worst nightmare. ....

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