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...word literally means "father." This was a bit dismaying to Vashti McKenzie when she arrived in Africa four years ago. After all, McKenzie, now 57, had just been elected the first female bishop in the history of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church and been posted to its 18th district, which includes the churches of Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana and Mozambique. Friends had warned that the African church was particularly patriarchal, and here was linguistic proof...
France has been good to Peter Mayle. With the enormous success 14 years ago of A Year in Provence, about the adventures of Mayle and his wife after they moved from England to restore an 18th century farmhouse in the Luberon, he pioneered the Anglos-in-paradise genre. Every few years now he produces a new book to remind the rest of us worker bees what we're missing by not rolling in honey all day in the south of France, that great sunlit throne room of the middle-class imagination. In Mayle's books, both the novels...
...throne and forced the country's nobles to kiss her hand. The lovers remain entombed together in the monastery in Alcobaça, but the spot in Santa Clara is a shrine to their sad, eternal love. The gracious 54-room hotel, with its fine restaurant, occupies a converted 18th century manor house owned by José Miguel Júdice, a direct descendant of Pedro and Inês. Its dark trees evoke the memory of Dona...
...richly colored, was a by-product of Portugal's maritime ambitions: 700 years ago, the monarchy needed ships and ordered the planting of 12,000 hectares of pine forest to provide timber and control the shifting coastal sands. Those two raw materials attracted glassmakers to the area in the 18th century; the region has been a centre for the industry ever since. Today Leiria produces 45,000 tons of glassware (worth €175 million), and exports three-quarters of it. The first glass factory in the area was founded in 1748 by Englishman John Beare. The factory building still survives...
Lajer-Burcharth, an expert in 18th and 19th century French art, has also taught extensively on critical and feminist theory. She could not be reached for comment over the weekend...