Erika Harlitz-Kern holds a doctorate from a Swedish university and can't get enough of history, books, and music. Her earliest memories involve a comic book and a Dutch troubadour. She has travelled South Asia on a shoestring, although nowadays she spends most of her vacations in the Mississippi Delta. Lives with her husband in South Florida, because sooner or later they would've ended up there anyway. Blog: The Boomerang Twitter: EH_Kern
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100 must-read books about the diversity, cultural exchanges, progress, and more lesser-known aspects of the Middle Ages.
The life and work of Christine de Pizan, feminist French renaissance poet, the first woman in France to have made her living as a professional writer.
10 things you should know about The Book of the Queen.
Ten things you need to know about the St. Albans Psalter where the stories of the Bible are depicted from the perspective of women.
Ten things you need to know about the Sana'a Pentateuch, a medieval manuscript from Yemen famous for its images of micrography.
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