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

  • On the Synod on Synodality: Part I

    Though I am not a Catholic, I am a scholar of Catholicism by way of medieval literature, liturgy, and hagiography. I have haunted a fair number of cathedrals in my day and generally like to keep up with the modern dance of vestments. Thus, I have been watching the coverage surrounding Germany’s Synodal Way (2019-2022)…

    Lindsay Gill