Archives Mensuelles: août 2013
Renaissance living comfort
When nobility and royalty were travelling from palace to palace, tapestries, carpets and wooden furniture were taken along to furnish the various rooms. But how were these interiors made comfortable, and how their inhabitants were sheltered from the summer heat or winter cold ? Tapestries have been used not only as decoration and signs of […]
Mary of Guise’s Book of Hours
Every noblewoman had hers, from the thirteenth century onwards, and depending on her wealth, it was more or less decorated and illuminated with more or less art. Mary of Guise’s Book of Hours, a XVth century manuscript, comes from St. Benedict’s Abbey, Fort Augustus, and is kept now in the National Library of Scotland. « Of […]
Haine de reines, reines évaporées
« La France ayant adopté solennellement la loi salique en 1789, avant d’exclure les femmes de la citoyenneté puis de l’« universel » jusqu’en 1944, la démonstration des méfaits du pouvoir féminin continua de revêtir un intérêt stratégique pour ceux qui entendaient maintenir le monopole masculin sur la décision politique ; une démonstration à laquelle désormais […]
Marie de Guise-Lorraine 1515-2025 