What did Paris sound like in the lifetime of Nicolas Flamel (c. 1330–1418)? As part of its exhibition Nicolas Flamel, alchimiste de papier, the Musée de Cluny invites visitors to explore the musical world of this wealthy Parisian bourgeois
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Inside the Houses of the Canons of Notre-Dame in Fifteenth-Century Paris
A remarkable collection of post-mortem inventories reveals how the wealthy canons of Notre-Dame lived, worked and entertained in late medieval Paris.
What Was an Escripvain in the Middle Ages? Scribes, Authors and the Business of Writing
What did it mean to be an escripvain (or escrivain) in medieval France? Was such a person a professional copyist, a clerk, a secretary, a notary or an author? And how did the meaning of the term change as manuscript production developed into an increasingly specialised commercial enterprise during the later Middle Ages?