The Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections ... composition of red ink allowed it to flow more easily than blue.[1] The illuminated letters in medieval manuscripts vary in size.

While the wider literature tells us that medieval women were silent and passive, their letters and embroideries tell a different story. Letters and embroidery allowed medieval women to express ...

Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got ... and he stuck her with an unenviable duty: answering letters from the cranks, conspiracists, and truthers ...

Medieval? The very word has evil phonetically embedded in it. Certain non-European political positions today are regularly and pejoratively dismissed as medieval. And then, dear reader ...

That this letter collection was not lost is something of a minor miracle. Margaret’s contribution consists of over 100 items, spanning the years immediately following her marriage to those leading up ...

But while they were discouraged from expressing their feelings in daily life, letters written by elite women of the medieval period are a rich source of information about their emotions. Most ...