On Hippiesque: Travel and the Renaissance Woman
Three recent posts on the Hippiesque blog:
The travelers’ dream of the Big House is inspired by a recurring dream that I seem to share with a lot of fellow travellers and expatriates: what if one could have all their friends under the same roof?
The Myth of Travel takes a look at travel, class, history and finding travel and amazement far away from any airport. It was also an excuse to go book-buying: as soon as this was written, I rushed to buy Alain De Botton’s The Art of Travel. A very enjoyable read so far, highly recommended.
Finally, Hypatia and the Renaissance Women was written on the occasion of Ada Lovelace Day. The research behind this writing was a source of quite a few discoveries. I learned more about the lives of people like Hildegard of Bingen and Mary Somerville (and of course, Hypatia of Alexandria), but the greatest “ah-HA!” moment was when I understood why the renaissance had been such a poor historical period for women in science.
