Hannah Charlton's art is inspired by illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages

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Hannah Charlton’s art sends viewers way back in time.

Due to history’s patriarchal perpsective, we may not expect feminist viewpoints from a time so long ago as the Middle Ages. Yet women who challenged the status quo have always existed, even then.

One such woman is Christine de Pizan, whose The Book of the City of Ladies was completed in 1405. The book, and the more than 100 historically famous and mythological subjects contained within, is the focus of an ongoing project by

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