Uncovering the Lives of Medieval and Renaissance Women

Have you seen our blogposts about our Medieval and Renaissance Women digitisation programme?

You can find them all here:https://t.co/eXegMw60jc

Below is a small (but perfectly formed) selection 🧵 pic.twitter.com/g43Pvbvnar

— Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) March 31, 2023

In 'Venusse was her name', @paula_delval analysed the female members of the household of two English princes, including their governess, nursemaids and washerwoman.https://t.co/lfe0ma24y1 pic.twitter.com/MyokVDRAda

— Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) March 31, 2023

In 'Claim of thrones', @paula_delval revealed how in 1471 Isabella of Portugal, dowager Duchess of Burgundy, declared herself universal heiress of the late king, Henry VIhttps://t.co/kv1tPMslJD pic.twitter.com/5WwX9yAPe2

— Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) March 31, 2023

In 'Jane Segar, an artist at the Elizabethan court', @CCockburn2 drew attention to a volume made as a New Year's gift for Elizabeth I, featuring this incredible embroidered bindinghttps://t.co/zeOjOyYMKA pic.twitter.com/0tpnMp9EaJ

— Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) March 31, 2023

And today you may have read 'A Tudor autograph book', also by @CCockburn2, about a Book of Hours belonging to Lady Joan Vaux, a member of the Tudor courthttps://t.co/x4zsxhiECN pic.twitter.com/eW9PI0s7zt

— Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) March 31, 2023

Don't forget to check out 'A deathbed confession' by @RFMacLellan, concerning a court case in 15th-century England, involving an affair, a divorce and a love-childhttps://t.co/mxZIS1o7AN pic.twitter.com/0q2M3lFifs

— Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) March 31, 2023

Another blogpost by @RFMacLellan is 'Mary had a little lamb', about the diet of the Tudor princess (and future Queen of England) and her householdhttps://t.co/UbY8ajGDuQ pic.twitter.com/8LM4hJq1QJ

— Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) March 31, 2023