Seventeenth Century Europe
Charles Perrault: The Father of the Fairy Tale?
I recently had reason to track down a few details about the story of Puss-in-Boots, which I frequently confuse with Dick Whittington and his cat[1]. Along the way I fell down rabbit hole or two about the story’s “author” Charles Perrault (1628-1703). (Does this surprise anyone?) Perrault is best known for the collection of fairy…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Sarah Hagglund
Sarah Hagglund is a Boston-based art historian and currently works in the Division of European and American Art at the Harvard Art Museums. She received her BA in History and Anthropology from Kent State University and her MA in the History of Art and Architecture from Boston University. Her research focuses on 17th-century Italian women…
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1624: The Year in Review
In 2013, I wrote my first A Year in Review post: for some reason that I no longer remember I had been spending a lot of time thinking/reading/writing about 1913 and wanted to share some of the highlights. Over the next few years, Year in Review posts became a standard part of December here on…
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