Medieval Europe
Tamaris, Boccaccio, and the Importance of Being Her Father’s Daughter
As I mentioned in my last blog post, Mary Wellesley’s The Gilded Page includes a recurring theme of women who were involved in the creation and use of medieval manuscripts, and why we know about them. One of my favorite examples: the teeth of a middle-aged woman buried in a church-monastery complex in Germany…
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The Gilded Page
I finally finished reading Mary Wellesley’s The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts, which I started reading in late September. The delay is a commentary on the chaos of my life over the last few months, not on the quality of the book, which is fascinating. I’ve read a great deal about illuminated…
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Treasures in the Paper Pile,Pt 2:Joanna of Flanders, also known as Jeanne la Flamme
In recent weeks I’ve been working my way through some of the paper stashes that have accumulated in the corners of my office in anticipation of the arrival of a new desk which will give me room for two computer screens. In the course of sorting, I’ve run across a couple of women warriors I…
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