Amen!
When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
Curious cat (by Arnaldur Huld)
Yet, despite such praise and such talent, Heloise could never benefit from the formal education or ready employment that so aided the career and thought of a man like Peter Abelard. To put it simply, brilliant women like Hildegard of Bingen and Heloise of the Paraclete were admired during the Central Middle Ages, but they had to do their work outside of the intellectual mainstream.
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Model Dovima wearing a creation of Yves Saint Laurent for Dior Maison and photographed by Richard Avedon.Vogue,August 1955.
The Madonna with Canon van der Paele, 1436.
First depiction of concave glasses for near-sighted people. Glasses for long-sightedness date to the 1300s. (See Medieval Panorama, page 195.)
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