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

  • Women Know How to Write About Themselves––Finding a Canon of Women’s Literature

    On some level, Margery quite literally tosses out the idea of virginity, which the Church had used by that time to control the bodies of women and their activities for more than a millennia.

    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