[Sca-cooks] FW: paprika and spikenard

[Terry Decker]

The Long Journey of Gracia Mendes is the biography of a Portuguese girl who
married a Jewish Ragusan spice trader.  The facts that the author is from
UCLA and that there is a thesis on Ragusan spice traders at UCLA, suggests a
link between Birnbaum and the thesis, providing additional cachet for the
thesis.

Bear

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>Do you mean it is a fiction work?  I'm really curious, just returned
>from the Medieval Studies gathering at CEU, but heard nothing of this
>new book of Marianna Birnbaum.
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>Solwerlad