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mouse

mouse@bookwyrm.social

Joined 4 years, 7 months ago

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2025 Reading Goal

40% complete! mouse has read 21 of 52 books.

Daniel Lord Smail: Legal Plunder (Hardcover, 2016, Harvard University Press) No rating

Even seemingly innocuous objects were worth something. Otherwise, it is impossible to understand why, in Marseille in the year 1331, a man named Peire de Sepeda should have chosen to make good on a debt by invading the home of his debtor and removing, of all things, a tablecloth and two napkins. There is always the possibility, of course, that the debtor, Antoni de Serra, was eating off them at the time of the home invasion: the record carefully specifies that the tablecloth was on the table when Peire seized it. In this case, the value of the linens may have been incidental to the insult delivered by their seizure.

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Daniel Lord Smail: Legal Plunder (Hardcover, 2016, Harvard University Press) No rating

The weight of justice and the omnipresent risk of indebtedness and seizure may have shaped the very profile of consumption in later medieval society, pushing consumption toward small, portable objects of high value. ... It may help us understand why there was a fashion revolution, rather than a furniture revolution, in fourteenth-century Europe.

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Daniel Lord Smail: Legal Plunder (Hardcover, 2016, Harvard University Press) No rating

The preacher Bernadarino of Siena, who was particularly attentive to the changes afoot, went so far as to link male ornament and finery to the growing practice of sodomy, since pretty young men would attract unwanted attention from their elders. Women's insatiable desire for fine things, he claimed, also promoted homosexuality because it led to rapid escalation in the cost of dowries, and that, in turn, delayed weddings. In their sexual frustration, young unmarried men had begun to turn to each other to satisfy their lusts.

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fellas,,,

George Leland Hunter: The Practical Book of Tapestries (Hardcover, 1925, J.B. Lippincott company) No rating

This is a practical book. It sticks to the facts. It is based, not on other books, but on tapestries I have seen and know. It wastes little space on unimportant tapestries, or on tapestries that have ceased to exist.

I dedicate the book "to France, the mother of tapestries" in recognition of the fact that Perfected Tapestries are a French art based on French literature and painting, and developed at Arras and Paris in the fourteenth century. All great Gothic tapestries are French Gothic, whether woven in Northern France or in the French Netherlands.

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well this guy does not mince words

started reading Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

Micaiah Johnson: Those Beyond the Wall (Hardcover, 2024, Del Rey)

In Ashtown, a rough-and-tumble desert community, the Emperor rules with poisoned claws and an iron …

I re-read The Space Between Worlds to refresh my memory when I saw that this was out, and I was nervous to see what this would be, since that story felt.. concluded. But seeing that it's following different characters is a relief! I'm curious to see where it goes.