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Updated: May 4, 2025
'You would fancy yourself among a Professor's book-cases, or in a book-shop, or amid the benches of a lecture-room. The Bishop considered that this library of the Villa Prusiana was as good as anything that could be found in Rome or Alexandria. The books were arranged according to subjects. The room had a 'ladies' side'; and here were arranged the devotional works.
That women of even an earlier century than that of Diemudis were permitted to read, if not to write, is proved by the description of a private library, given in the letters of C. S. Sidonius Apollinaris, and quoted in Edwards's "History of Libraries." This book-collection was the property of a gentleman of the fifth century, residing at his castle of Prusiana.
We are also told that it was the custom at the castle of Prusiana to discuss at dinner the books read in the morning, which would tend to a belief that conversation at the dinner-tables of the fifth century might be quite as edifying as at those of the nineteenth. A few feminine names connected with the literature of the Middle Ages have come down to us.
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