The personalized prayer book of the French queen Claude de France enchants us especially by its delicate paintings in a charmingly small format of 69x49 mm
Each page offers a beloved quote from Austen and its source
Can you have too much compassion
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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society Barbara Heller The personalized prayer book ofA vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on womens beauty, sexuality, and behavior. What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about women and reveal whats shifted over timeand what hasnt. Enshrined medieval thinkers, almost always