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 …
Women’s History
Not in This Day and Age? On “Feisty, Cheeky, and Rebellious” Women in History
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 …
#DressingLikeAWoman in the Middle Ages
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 …
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 …
The Veil in the Middle Ages
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 …
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 …
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 …
Seventy-Seven Cents on the Thaler? Women’s Wages in the Middle Ages
[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 …
Cistercians, Chronologies and Communities Symposium
[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 …