So I started reading Le Roman de Silence, a 13th century French chivalric romance about a girl raised as a boy in a kingdom where women can't inherit. Her name is Silence, and she goes on knightly adventures.
The author begins this tale of adventure with a 3-page rant about the greed of rich people ruining the world, and then literally says (at least in the English translation) "I just had to get this out of my system before telling my tale."
Scholars floated the idea that the author might have been a woman. I think it's likely.
@TarkabarkaHolgy
it is a very strange feeling to see a reference pop up today to a book I was recommended to (but in the end didn't) read by my then tutor of my undergrad French medieval literature studies a mere 37 years ago 
Life can be very strange sometimes !
@sheepnik
This sounds amazing.
Where is it published? Where does it come from?
@abendgules Translation was published in 1999. Manuscript was discovered in 1901.
@TarkabarkaHolgy ooh I know about Le Roman de Silence through @heatherrosejones who did a post, podcast episode, and short story on it! https://www.alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-249-romance-silence
@ljwrites @TarkabarkaHolgy @heatherrosejones I came here to say that, hurray you got to it earlier!
@TarkabarkaHolgy Could Jeanne D'Arc know about it, tho she was likely illiterate?
@Chrisblue Good question, I have no idea. At least some of it is built from legend and folklore motifs so it could have existed as an oral story.
@TarkabarkaHolgy It's referenced in my computer game The Exile Princes: the hardest difficulty setting is named after it, on the grounds that it's the one where nature itself doesn't really want you to succeed as a knight :)
@JubalBarca lol that's nifty