The garden in the Roman de la Rose of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun is one of my favourite such spaces in all of medieval literature. The text to your left (in Old French, should you be that way inclined) gives a rich description of said garden, filled with apple trees, almond trees, fountains, flowers of all colours and perfumes. It’s a place where the normal rules don’t apply. Anything can happen in such a garden. (more…)
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The garden beyond time and space….
Posted in Academia and Research, Arts and Culture, Medieval studies, tagged Boccaccio, Book of Kells, Burrell Collection, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Garden of Eden, Guillaume de Lorris, Il Decamerone, Jean de Meun, Medieval gardens, Medieval Mondays, Pre-Raphaelites, Rare Books, Roman de la Rose, Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, Wagner Garden Carpet, wild men on June 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2012: Company of Liars by Karen Maitland
Posted in Academia and Research, Blogging projects, Books and Reading, Medieval studies, tagged Aucassin et Nicolette, Blogtoberfest2012, Boccaccio, Cent Nouvelle Nouvelles, Chaucer, Company of Liars, Historical Fiction Reading Challenge, Il Decamerone, Jacobus de Voragine, Karen Maitland, The Canterbury Tales, The Golden Legend on October 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Most recently, I finished Karen Maitland‘s Company of Liars: a novel of the plague (London: Penguin Books, 2008. ISBN 9780141031910). Her fourth medieval thriller (The Falcons of Fire and Ice has just been published, and I got from my public library this morning, much to my delight. But I am not allowed to start reading it until I have done my homework, i.e. this blog post. (more…)