Christine de Pizan: An Author Profile
Victorian novelist Frank Smedley wrote that “All’s fair in love and war”; though we cannot be sure, Renaissance diplomat Christine de Pizan might have thrown her complete works at his head if she had heard that.
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Héloïse d’Argenteuil
Héloïse d’Argenteuil An Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard We do not typically think of wife and nun as words that can apply to the same woman at the …
Lessons From Purgatory
Lessons From Purgatory By Autumn Kennedy In its own capacity, Dante’s Purgatorio resembles Virgil, shepherding its readers up the sacred mountain in this life as he shepherded its …
Malory: Peril, Piety, and Perdition
Malory: Peril, Piety, and Perdition By Gabriel Blanchard No one codified the legend of King Arthur and its meaning for English culture as powerfully as Thomas Malory. The …
The Legacy of the Nibelungenlied
The Legacy of the Nibelungenlied By Gabriel Blanchard What legacy is there to utter destruction? As it turns out, if it has a poet on its side, quite …
The Nibelungenlied: A Romance of Disaster and Death
The Nibelungenlied: A Romance of Disaster and Death By Gabriel Blanchard Romance; treachery; vengeance; many unpronounceable names: here we have the ingredients of high epic. The Nibelungenlied, or …
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Abelard: Questions, Comments, and Calamities
Abelard: Questions, Comments, and Calamities By Gabriel Blanchard The intellectual revival that took place in eleventh and twelfth century Paris lies at the heart of western thought. Born …
Hugh of St. Victor: The Renaissance Before the Renaissance
Hugh of St. Victor: The Renaissance Before the Renaissance By Gabriel Blanchard Little known today, the flowering of learning over which Hugh of St. Victor presided was one …
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Student Essay: Knights and Knaves at Avignon
Student Essay: Knights and Knaves at Avignon By Mikayla Pipes The fourteenth-century debate over the legitimate papal line seems as if it can only be a matter of …
St. Hildegard of Bingen: “The Sibyl of the Rhine”
St. Hildegard of Bingen: “The Sibyl of the Rhine” By Gabriel Blanchard Today we discuss the life and times of a renaissance woman—albeit the rennaissance in question was …
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