On the Shelf for September 2023The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 267 with Heather Rose Jones
Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction.
In this episode we talk about:
- Book Shopping
- Goodman, Ruth. 2016. How to be a Tudor: A Dawn to Dusk Guide to Tudor Life. W.W. Norton & Company, New York. ISBN 978-1-63149-253-2
- Cleland, Elizabeth & Adam Eaker. 2022. The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ISBN 978-1-58839-692-1
- Ball, Krista D. 2012. What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank. Tyche Books, Ltd, Alberta. ISBN 978-0-9878248-9-9
- Ndiaye, Noémie & Lia Markey. 2023. Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press, Tempe. ISBN 978-0-86698-842-1
- Leonardi, Camillo (trans. Liliana Leopardi). 2023. Speculum Lapidum: A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones. The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park. ISBN 978-0-271-09539-4
- Hindley, Katherine Storm. 2023. Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-82533-5
- Warr, Cordelia. 2023. Medieval Clothing and Textiles 17. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge. ISBN 978-1-78327-598-4
- Not Just the Tudors (podcast)
- Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Deanne Williams
- Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction
- Other Titles of Interest
- What I’ve been consuming
- The Great Roxhythe by Georgette Heyer
- Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
- Call for submissions for the 2024 LHMP audio short story series. See here for details.
- This month we interview Rhiannon Grant and talk about:
- The appeal of a Neolithic setting
- Worldbuilding in archaeological settings
- Exploring spirituality
- Publications mentioned:
- This month we interview Katharine Quarmby and talk about:
- The historic inspiration for the story
- The work of turning archives into fiction
- Finding queer relationships in the historic record
- Fiction and non-fiction as reflections of each other
- Reclaiming marginalized histories
- Publications mentioned:
A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.)
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
Links to Heather Online
Links to Rhiannon Grant Online
Links to Katharine QuarmbyOnline