My last 24 hours have been pretty saturated with Montreal and Quebec history. Not as boring as some of you may think as you remember everyone's favourite high school class, history of Quebec and Canada (which I actually really enjoyed... so...). Last night, I attended Archives Passe-Mémoire's first public reading in honour of International Archives Day (celebrated every year on June 9th). And, hopefully, it will be the first of many. In a tiny room at the Société d'histoire d

Armed with my trusty notebook and a large selection of pens, I made my way to the Montreal History Group's Colloquium at McGill University last Friday. Shortly after I started this blog, my friend, Jackie, contacted me about a project she had been thinking about for quite some time, which we are now (maybe temporarily) calling the "Women of Montreal project." Our goal is to set up an online, interactive platform for people to discover and learn about lesser-known women throug

Ten books, countless articles, two sleepless nights and 20 pages later, I finished my first final essay this week. Although I'm not 100% happy with the end product, I've really been amazed at all that I was able to discover about my source, La nobiltà delle donne. I know I could have gone a lot further with it in my paper, but I've done a good job anyway. This is the perfectionist in me kicking in (I've even told myself that I'll rewrite it once I get the comments back from m

I was introduced to Lodovico Domenichi's La nobiltà delle Donne two years ago by my Italian Humanism and Renaissance professor. And let me be honest, I was not too keen on getting to know his work. Although I absolutely love the Renaissance, our assignment was to transcribe 7 pages from one of the books (there are a total of five) in La nobiltà. So, really, no one was too keen on this, especially since in manuscripts from the time pages are numbered differently: one page is a