Recs if you like The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society...

pink, sophisticated & sometimes fatale <3 (added some essential nonfic & poetry!)

the coquette femme aesthetic is of the utmost importance

Beautiful books for when your monthly reading roundup needs a little facelift 😉

Nonfiction titles concerning events, people, and history from the Medieval/Early Modern periods! Many of these are suggestions from the PB community as shared in the Medieval Times quest forum.

Recommendations always welcome!

here is your assigned reading 📚an assortment of secondary and primary sources 🧑‍🏫

Everybody wants to be Arthur.

Books that use the "Once & Future" title template.

(some are adjacent)

Non-fiction Feminist lit with niche, intriguing topics, such as the women who built the horror genre, ligustics, and women's history in the occult.

The majority of history has been, and still is, written by men. Even when men write about women in history, they often get it wrong, distort the truth to fit moral or political narratives, or just plain have no idea what the female experience is so they miss what’s actually important.

Here is a list of some of history written by female authors, who are looking at history through their female gaze - not through the lense of what men have decided is history.

Suggestions welcome!

Books on the middle ages and medievalism that I would like to read during my meandering personal study of the medieval period around the world.

Fiction and nonfiction books about or inspired by medieval Europe.

books about womanhood that slap

Rather than a TBR I like to have a list of menu options

Memorable characters, real and imagined, from humanity's greatest millennium.