Tag: medieval

• Pandemic, Day 2: Where Do You Find A Moment’s Peace?

  

  Author Robin Rivers shares how she finds a moment of peace in the midst of fear and anxiety.

  Robin Rivers

  March 13, 2020

  A Canadian In France, Everyday Life, In The Writer’s Studio, Spiritual Development

  Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, Ascension, Canada, chanting, collective consciousness, coronavirus, Fontevraud, France, grief, illumination, medieval, peace, rise

• Atop The World With Da Vinci

  

  Author Robin Rivers visits with da Vinci and his apprentices atop a hill in Amboise, France.

  Robin Rivers

  November 3, 2019

  A Canadian In France, The Woman On The Wall, Travel

  amboise, art, art histori, author, Château Royal d’Amboise, Da Vinci, France, French Renaissance, historical fiction, Loire Valley, medieval, novel, novel research, Novelist, painters, renaissance, Robin Rivers, The Woman On The Wall, Travel

• My Ladies and Their Unicorns

  

  Author Robin Rivers uncovers a mysterious anagram and the possible evidence of a lost all-female society in Paris.

  Robin Rivers

  October 22, 2019

  A Canadian In France, art history, The Woman On The Wall, Travel

  A Mon Sevl Desir, alternative interpretation, anagrams, art history, Cluny Museum, female society, France, French Renaissance, goddess, La Dame à la licorne, Lady and the Unicorn, lost society, medieval, Middle Ages, Moyen-Âge, Museé de Cluny, mysticism, pagan symbols, Paris, Sibyl, sibylline, symbolism, tapestries, The Woman On The Wall, Travel, unicorn

• The Lady and The Unicorn

  

  Author Robin Rivers reads up on the Lady and The Unicorn tapestries before heading to the Musée de Cluny le Monde Médiéval in Paris.

  Robin Rivers

  July 30, 2019

  A Canadian In France, The Woman On The Wall, Travel

  amreading, amresearching, Books, Cluny Museum, France, historical fiction, Lady and the Unicorn, medieval, novel, Novelist, Paris, renaissance, tapestry, Tracy Chevalier, unicorn, Writer’s Studio

• Lapidary of Sacred Stones & My Grandmother’s Amber

  

  Author Robin Rivers is researching sacred stones from the Medieval and Renaissance periods in order to discover the lore behind amber, a key symbol in The Woman On The Wall.

  Robin Rivers

  July 4, 2019

  In The Writer’s Studio, The Woman On The Wall, Uncategorized

  amber, amber stone, amresearching, amwriting, Claude Lecouteux, Da Vinci, folk medicine, healing, lapidary of sacred stones, lore, magick, medieval, myth, religion, renaissance, stones, The Woman On The Wall, the writer’s studio