Posts Tagged ‘medieval manuscripts’
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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