Gendered Perspectives on Monastic Reform I-IV
This recap of four sessions on gender and monastic reform in the Middle Ages at the International Medieval Congress, July 2017—#s1030, #s1130, #s1230, #s1330—was originally …
This recap of four sessions on gender and monastic reform in the Middle Ages at the International Medieval Congress, July 2017—#s1030, #s1130, #s1230, #s1330—was originally …
In yesterday’s Guardian newspaper, reviewer Mark Lawson called for the makers of television programmes to “stop horrendously airbrushing history”, to “stop the madness” of producing …
One of the anecdotes that tends to stick with students in my survey courses, to the end of the semester and beyond, is that trousers …
Sara Damiano’s post yesterday over at The Junto on assigning and using more primary sources by and about women in US History survey courses was …
The recent decision by several communities in France to ban the burkini has received a lot of attention around the world—and rightly so. It is …
For most people, medieval nuns are shadowy figures, confined against their will in cloisters by overbearing families. But in recent decades, historians have undertaken a …
[Header Image: BL Harley 2846, f. 40v] From the early thirteenth century onwards, the pilgrims who flocked to Notre-Dame de Chartres in north-central France were …
Next Wednesday, July 27, at 4pm I will be giving a talk at the Solas Bhríde Centre in Kildare, entitled “Brigit Abroad: The Reception of …
[Header Image: Illustration showing women in a counting house, ca. 1400. BL Additional MS 27695] How much is a woman’s work worth? Gender pay equity …
[Header Image: Livre des merveilles du monde. BNF MS français 2810, f. 80r] This past weekend, the University of Iowa played host to a conference …