Halloween is finally here! To celebrate this occasion, Folia Magazine offers you a collection of illuminations from a bizarre French manuscript titled "Danse Macabre" and containing the text from La danse macabre - a mural painted…
Today is the last Wednesday of the month: time for yet another Women's Wednesday! Our guest this time is Artemisia, Queen of Caria... or should we say "guests"? In his telling, Boccaccio actually merges two…
Illuminated initial, a capital P, from the "Breviary of Isabella of Castile", ms. Add MS 18851, f. 51r, ca. 1497, British Library, London.
Since the beginning of the Women’s Wednesday column, we had the chance to tell many captivating stories of goddesses, queens, maidens, and warriors. Today, for the first time ever, we introduce a painter: Thamyris, said…
Illumination from the "Breviary of Isabella of Castile", ms. Add MS 18851, f. 270r, ca. 1497, British Library, London.
Our weekly Women's Wednesday is dedicated to the courage of a mother: our Mulier Clara is Veturia, mother of the Roman general Gaius Marcius Coriolanus. Coming from a wealthy family herself, Veturia was the one…
Illumination from a Roman Missal, ms. Latin 16827, f. 52v, 1492, Département des manuscrits, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
Did you know that the first novel to be ever recorded was also written by a woman? If Christine de Pizan is often considered the first female professional writer of the European Middle Ages, writing at the turn of the 15th…