CONGRESS CANCELED In Memory of Susan Groag Bell: Christine's Legacy in Material Objects
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The independent scholar Susan Groag Bell, who passed away in 2015, was a forerunner of many of today’s medievalists who focus on the study of women’s writings and lives. Of specific interest to Christine de Pizan scholars was her final book, The Lost Tapestries of the City of Ladies: Christine de Pizan’s Renaissance Legacy, which explored the late medieval and Renaissance reception of Christine through tapestries owned by influential women (such as Elisabeth I, Queen of England, and Anne of Brittany, Queen of France). Inspired by Groag Bell’s scholarship, this session is dedicated to the exploration of material objects – manuscripts, incunabula, tapestries, and so on – in which Christine de Pizan’s legacy persisted through the late medieval and into the early modern period. Benjamin M. Semple
CONGRESS CANCELED In Memory of Susan Groag Bell: Christine's Legacy in Material Objects
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The independent scholar Susan Groag Bell, who passed away in 2015, was a forerunner of many of today’s medievalists who focus on the study of women’s writings and lives. Of specific interest to Christine de Pizan scholars was her final book, The Lost Tapestries of the City of Ladies: Christine de Pizan’s Renaissance Legacy, which explored the late medieval and Renaissance reception of Christine through tapestries owned by influential women (such as Elisabeth I, Queen of England, and Anne of Brittany, Queen of France). Inspired by Groag Bell’s scholarship, this session is dedicated to the exploration of material objects – manuscripts, incunabula, tapestries, and so on – in which Christine de Pizan’s legacy persisted through the late medieval and into the early modern period. Benjamin M. Semple