A Beginner’s Reading List: Medieval Nuns
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 …
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: detail of Robert Campin, “Madonna and Child with Saints in the Enclosed Garden“, ca. 1440-60. National Gallery of Art, Washington] Journal Article “Imagining …
Archived from its original publication at http://hortulus-journal.com/2015/06/06/digital-publishing-column-yvonne-seale-on-empathy-in-editing/ You’d perhaps expect to learn a great deal about the craft of writing when working as the editor …
For historians, one of the most useful things about new digital mapping technologies are the new ways in which they let us approach our body …
[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 …
Header Image: Detail of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “The Fight Between Carnival and Lent” (1559). Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. I’m delighted to host this round of …
Dissertations are read by comparatively few people, in the grand scheme of things—certainly by far fewer people than helped me towards the completion of mine. …