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* Join a course on Feminist Theory and the Joy of Science – no fees, no exams, you can just read along and join the discussion.

* Or you could take a short course in Byzantine history through 12 Rulers, by podcast … well there is one woman in there, Irene.

* A new online collection of Medieval and Early Modern legal documents – how’s your medieval Latin?

* With debates running hot about nationalism and identity on these isles, it is interesting to revisit the 16th-century version of these controversies among William Caxton, Polydore Vergil and John Leland.

* A little more anecdotal evidence of the medieval household as a joint economic enterprise: Yves and Marion, a bookselling couple in Paris in the 14th-century (French).

(Here’s Google’s attempt at translation, which might not leave you much the wiser… but the pictures on this site are always worth looking at.)

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