Best-selling author and art historian Janina Ramirez to speak at Salisbury Cathedral on International Women’s Day

Internationally renowned author Janina Ramirez will be speaking at Salisbury Cathedral on Sunday 8 March to mark International Women’s Day. There will also be a Q&A and a book signing at the end.

Professor Janina Ramirez, an art historian and broadcaster specialising in medieval art and symbolism, will speak about her latest book, Legenda: The Real Women Behind the Myths That Shaped Europe, a brilliant reappraisal of the medieval women whose lives have been exploited over centuries for political, nation-building ends.

Having only been released in November last year, Legenda has already been widely praised, described as meticulously researched, and a ‘breathtaking’ exploration of historical women. Her previous novel Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It (WH Allen) was an instant no1 Sunday Times bestseller, a Waterstones & Hatchards Book of the Month, and was shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize.

Ramirez is a presenter, lecturer and researcher, specialising in interpreting symbols and examining art works within their historical context. She is Course Director for the Undergraduate Certificate and Diploma in History of Art at the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University and president of Gloucester History Festival. She has also written and presented several documentaries for BBC4 and R4.

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