One night last July, the Tallahassee air full of the smell of semi-tropical rain and azaleas, drinking my third glass of a heavy red wine and listening to YouTube videos one after another on my laptop ...
The word “Provence” is laden with mystique. In culinary terms, the word conjures up fare made with robust mixtures of olive oil, capers, garlic and lamb, and writers like M.F.K. Fisher and Peter Mayle ...
Laurie Shepard is an Associate Professor of Italian at Boston College. Her specialty is Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, with a particular focus on lyric poetry, rhetoric, and historical ...
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122?-1204) may well have been the greatest woman of the Middle Ages. In her 82 years she was born the Duchess of Aquitaine and Countess of Poitou, became Queen of France at age ...
Illumination of Saint James the Apostle in the Salamanca copy of the _Liber Sancti Jacobi_ from the Codex Calixtinus. Spanish Ministry of Culture Situated at the end of the Camino de Santiago ...
The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 109, No. 1 (WINTER 2019), pp. 24-37 (14 pages) Jonathan P. Decter, Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian ...
Giles Gasper receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Leverhulme Trust, and Research England. The great hall is one of the most enduring images from the middle ages – and ...
Medieval MummeryTHE FOOL OF VENUS—George Cronyn —Covici, Friede ($3). Of the ten long years that went to the making of The Fool of Venus, eight were spent on research and the other two were wasted. In ...