Medieval Scripts and Scraps

  • Body Count

    While it’s sometimes chancy to cast back to medieval literature to draw connections between the past and the present, I do wonder how significant works on virginity affected modern discourses on gender.

    Lindsay Gill

  • St Wilfrid and How Rome Came to Britain: Structure, Contention, and Conflict

    However, Catholicism, as a system of belief, was not always universally Roman. The system of faith slowly became institutionalized from early antiquity into the medieval period until it took the form that we recognize as “Roman Catholicism” today.

    Lindsay Gill

  • The Doom (or Fear?): The Difficulties of Translation

    The benefits of reading a translated text with the original language beside it is hard to explain, but I suppose it can best be summed up here. The Blickling Homilies, “Dominica Pasca (Easter Day),” includes the line: “Ond seo openung ∂aes dæges is swi∂e egesfull eallum gesceaftum.” The translators, who always have a hard job…

    Lindsay Gill