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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D’ArgenteuilAn 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 same time.
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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
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MaloryAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard No one codified the legend of King Arthur and its meaning for English culture as powerfully as Thomas Malory. ❧ Full name
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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
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The NibelungenliedA Book Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Romance; treachery; vengeance; many unpronounceable names: here we have the ingredients of high epic. ❧ Full title: Der Nibelungenlied (“The Song
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AbelardAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard The intellectual revival that took place in eleventh and twelfth century Paris lies at the heart of western thought. Born in Brittany
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Hugh of St. VictorAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Little known today, the flowering of learning over which Hugh of St. Victor presided was one of the most
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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
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St. Hildegard of BingenAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Today we discuss the life and times of a renaissance woman—albeit the rennaissance in question was not that of
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