Linette Withers: The bookbinder born to a crafting family who creates by hand from her workshop in Leeds
There’s a photograph of a young Linette Withers, aged just seven or eight, staring at a medieval chains library in complete ...
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The Best Medieval Games You’ll Ever Play
We’ve picked some of our favorite medieval games available to play now, from the realistic to the preposterous. This list isn’t necessarily ranked in any particular order. All of them are ...
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The Medieval and Renaissance Studies "Return of the King" Book Club 3/27
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Return of the King," the third book in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Medieval & Renaissance Studies will be ...
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Trans people affirmed their gender without medical help in medieval Europe − history shows how identity transcends medicine and law
Scholarship of medieval literature and historical records reveals how transgender people transitioned even without a robust medical system – instead, they changed their clothes, name and social ...
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What 15th-Century Lovers Wrote in Their Valentines
texts were unheard of? One lucky medieval maiden got to live the dream when she sent her betrothed what experts believe might be the very first Valentine. Well… the first in English, at least.