#1290s

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Tile in the shape of a star, 1290-1311, Kashan.

[artschoolglasses]

Central Portion of a Tabernacle, French, 1275-1300

From the Met Museum

[its-a-date]

Back in 1299, the Tuscans had one such unfair advantage: their bookkeeping. Florence's merchant banks prospered because they were better at business than anyone else.*

* Once the secrets of credit and debit spread across Italy and then Europe, Florence would enter a period of long relative decline. We think of the fifteenth century – the age of the Medici and the High Renaissance – as Florence's golden age, but by then Venice had outstripped it commercially and in population.

"The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" - Roland Allen

[jeannepompadour]

Miniature from "La somme le Roi" by Master Honoré, c. 1290-95

[citedesdames]

[misforgotten2]

This car gives me the willies.

National Geographic Magazine October 1928

[tenth-sentence]

In 1290, Edward I, urged on by his wife Eleanor of Castile and his mother Eleanor of Provence, executed 300 Jewish heads of household and expelled Jewish families from the kingdom.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[reaedificatoria]

Exorcism of the demons at Arezzo Assisi (Perugia), Italy 1295–1299 Giotto di Bondone (1267–1337)