Image from Wikipedia Commons Hildegard of Bingen (c1098-1179) could be described as a Renaissance Woman long before that term was coined (for men) or the Renaissance dawned. She was a poet, musician, theologian, composer, artist, doctor, botanist, philosopher, environmentalist, singer, herbalist, preacher, lexicographer and visionary – and it would be no idle claim to call […]
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Fifteenth-century stained glass window showing St Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read, from the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Beckley, Oxon. Photo by Liv Robinson. ‘That woman… is a woman!’ (Shakespeare in Love) Students of the Middle Ages probably consider acting to be an activity which was undertaken by men […]
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Credit line: Alex Allden at HarperCollins Publishers Rosie Garland won the Mslexia Novel competition in 2012 and her debut novel The Palace of Curiosities was published in March 2013 by HarperCollins. Her second novel, Vixen, published in 2014, is set in the plague year of 1349. In this post, Rosie writes about writing a novel set in […]
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Coronation of Queen Edith, the wife of King Edward the Confessor from The Life of Edward The Confessor (Cambridge University Library, Ee.3.59, fo. 11v). Source: Wikimedia Commons; the file is in the public domain in the United States. I’m very much looking forward to the Women’s Literary Culture gathering in Boston this summer (for the programme […]
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By Martin Le France (1410-1461) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons In her essay in Listening to Heloise, edited by Bonnie Wheeler, Jane Chance argues that the people, objects and concepts from the Middle Ages which we study and feel we have come to know are, in fact, completely unknowable to us. We understand a […]
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Aerial view of Back Bay, Boston including the Prudential Center and John Hancock Tower (Sfoskett at English Wikipedia). The second Women’s Literature Culture and the Medieval Canon International Network event with take place at the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University from 26 – 29 July 2016. This ground breaking project aims to […]
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