Not Just Adam’s Rib: Including Women in the Medieval Survey Course
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 …
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 …
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. …