Recent acquisitions:
📖 Courtly Culture: Literature & Society in the High Middle Ages, given to me by my friend Shawn
📖 Somerset Bedside Book: A Collection of Prose & Poetry
📖 The First 100 Years: A History of The Salt Lake Tribune 1871-1971
📖 The Willows at Christmas
#UniteAgainstBookBans #fREADom
pickI hate how it goes back and forth between a travel narrative and a history book, but I do recommend it for anyone just getting into medieval history.
I want to learn more about the anti-Semitism of Richard I‘s reign. From what The Age of Chivalry describes it reminds me of the attacks on Jewish Americans in the last few years. Although denounced by those in power, nothing is really done to stop the hate.
I didn‘t realize in Gothic tradition, cathedrals form a cross. I‘ll have to look for this in Gothic cathedrals including Notre Dame.
This paragraph reminds me of Russian and Ukrainian brides that to this day marry Americans for a better life. I need to look into that movement to see if it‘s origins go back to the 11th century when European monarchs married princesses from Ukraine/Kiev
