Medieval Scripts and Scraps

  • Entering Rome: Vatican Archives Post, Part I

    Last year, I had the opportunity to visit the Vatican Archives in Rome, Italy, through the Sangalli Institute.  I attended the “The Archives of the Holy See and the Roman Catholicism: instructions for use and new research perspectives” winter seminar for a week in January 2024. I had intended to post a blog post about…

    Lindsay Gill

  • St Wilfrid and How Rome Came to Britain: A Battle of the Biographies

    This post is part of a series. If you would like to read the first post and access the full list in the series, please follow this link: On the Synod on Synodality: Part I. The last post in this series, St Wilfrid and How Rome Came to Britain: Structure, Contention, and Conflict, explored the…

    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