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 …
History of Religion
Saint Anne: The Mother of the Mother of God in Medieval France
[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 …
Public Talk: St Brigit Abroad
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 …
Re-membering the Wilton Processional: a Manuscript Lost and Found
Professor Alison Altstatt (University of Northern Iowa) spoke to a gathering of musicologists, medievalists, and archivists at University of Iowa Special Collections on September 4. …