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St. George rides roughshod over a dragon as he greets a fair maiden. Miniature from a manuscript of the Legenda Aurea (Golden Legend), a book of lives of the saints that was enormously popular during the Middle Ages, made in Paris in 1382. Now in the British Library (BL Royal 19 B XVII, f. 109).
The first legal signature by a woman in the history of Catalonia
On the 16th of April of the year 1044, a woman named Alba wrote and signed a purchase document about what she and her husband were buying. This is the first time --or at least the oldest time that has survived-- where a woman signed a legal document in Catalonia.
Her name was Alba. You can see her signature at the end of the document: "Alba Femina Scripsit", which means "the woman Alba wrote this".
We know she was from the city of Vic, where her father Guibert was a teacher, having moved to Catalonia from Liège (modern-day Belgium). He taught his three sons and three daughters how to read and write, in a time where very few people knew how to, and even less women. He also taught them Latin, since it was a time where Romance languages (the languages that evolved from Latin, in our case Catalan) were not written down yet, they were the language that people spoke, but when it was time to write a document it was done in Latin. We see that Alba used great Latin, as well as an excellent calligraphy; but it's fascinating to see that she used a few of words in Catalan within the text, like era ("threshing floor"), casals ("houses"), coma ("mountain pass" or tiny valley), and puio (modern Catalan: puig; "hill") to describe the location they're buying. This was starting to become common at the time: the text itself was in Latin, but the specifics could be written in Catalan to make sure it was correctly understood.
This is the only document we have from her. But we know a few more things from other documents: she got married to a man named Jobert, they lived in the town of Santa Eulàlia de Riuprimer and had three daughters (named Guilla, Adaleds, and Magensburg) and three sons (Guillem, Ramon, and Artall), and from her husband's will we can see what they named everything in their possession: they had a piece of land nicknamed Coma Erma ("Waste Mountain Pass"), a house named Rosta, a cuirass named Claramalla, a horse named Giscafred, a mare called Gaçola, and an hauberk (mail shirt) named Omnia bona (Latin for "All Good").
Photos: Episcopal Archive of Vic / Marta Fernández Jurjo, Tània Alaix. Information sources: research from the book Lletres que parlen: Viatge als orígens del català by Jesús Alturo and Tània Alaix via La Vanguardia.
Circular Pyxis. East Roman (Byzantine), 5th to 6th Century CE.
The Walters Art Museum.
~ Floor tile.
Place of origin: Rye (?), England
Date: 1300-1350
Medium: Earthenware
Premontre Monastery Church, Zsámbék, 1929. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
de avibus (the book of birds)
illustrations from a copy of hugh of fouilloy's moral treatise on birds, de avibus, from a composite manuscript containing texts by hugh of fouilloy, achard of saint victor, and gebuinus trecensis. produced in flanders, early 13th c.
source: Bruges, Grootseminarie, Ms. 89/54
Gold and garnet disc brooch, England, early 7th century
from The MET
UNKNOWN WEAVER, Flemish The Offering of the Heart c. 1410 Tapestry Musée du Louvre, Paris
lions licking their cubs
Worksop Bestiary, England c. 1185
NY, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.81, fol. 8r
“The Power of Minne,” – an allegorical depiction of women’s power over men’s hearts (Broadsheet woodcut, 15th century by Master Casper von Regensburg, Berlin, SMB, Kupferstichkabinett)
A reconstruction of how the songs from trobairitz, the female equivalent of troubadours, should have sounded
Gold coin of Frederick Barbarossa
* 1154-55
* Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Obverse: Empero Frederick Barbarossa with crown, scepter and Reich's apple. "FREDERICK DEI GRA ROMANORV IMPERATOR A-VGS"
Reverse: A view of Rome, Colosseum in the background. ROMA CAPVT MVNDI REGIT ORBIS FRENA ROTVNDI
Provenance/Rights: Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Lutz-Jürgen Lübke (Lübke und Wiedemann) (Public Domain Mark)
A thesis by Roberta Cimino, click "katso/avaa" ("view/open") to see the file.
Mummers where humans dressed up as animals and fantastical creatures to entertain 🎉
Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, fol 21 V.
Five Mummers, 1338-44 MS Bodl. 264.
Long neck. book of hours, England ca. 1300. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.102, fol. 93r.
Medieval glass cup
* 8th-9th century
* Origin: Egypt or Near East
* Corning Museum of Glass
Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Battistero degli Ariani (Baptistery of the Arians). It was built around the end of the 5th century by King Theodoric the Great.
Ravenna, Italy
