After hearing about Christine de Pizan multiple times (including from the Weird Medieval Guys), I finally decided to borrow a book of her writings. The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan translates and condenses texts from: In addition to these translations, there are also seven essays that evaluate Christine’s work and reputation from various academics.… Read More Book Review: The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan translated by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Kevin Brownlee

I heard about The Notebook from a newsletter and a book about the history of the notebook sounded quite interesting, especially since I have three unused notebooks in my house (and probably more at my parents’ house, not to mentioned all the half-filled notebooks!). In fact, the only notebook that I’m probably on the way… Read More Book Review: The Notebook by Roland Allen

Let’s park this book review under “books that I was influenced to read from podcasts” (which should be a tag on this blog now that I’ve got two such books – the other book is Flawless and I’ll post my review next week!). I heard about Inventing the Renaissance from Ada Palmer’s interview on The… Read More Book Review: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer

I first heard about this book on the Medieval podcast (link to episode) and it sounded so interesting that I put it on the TBR list. And then when I actually went on a fairly long trip, I decided to borrow and it and I was definitely glad I did because both countries that I… Read More Book Review: A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages by Anthony Bale