Books of Duchesses – Mapping Women Book Owners in Francophone Europe, 1350-1550
This project collects, organizes, and presents data related to late-medieval and early modern laywomen and their books. Through an interactive map of Europe, users are able to visualize networks of manuscripts, texts, and readers and explore the libraries and peregrinations of women book owners.
The data collected in the project has the potential to shift scholarly paradigms by challenging narratives of national literary history and uncovering the active role played by women in creating, consuming literary and material culture and in circulating texts across national, geographic, and generational borders.