So excited an article I’ve been pondering since the 1990s has come out at last. Sometimes cooking thoughts slowly is the best thing to do. “Smuggled Balsam and the Inscription of Memory: Hugeberc von Hildesheim and the Pilgrimage of Saint Willibald.” In Women’s Lives: Self-Representation, Reception and Appropriation in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of … More Smuggled Balsam and the Inscription of Memory

I first began writing about Patient Griselda from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Clerk’s Tale in the 1980s. A chapter of my dissertation addressed what I called her negative poetics. That dissertation I finished in 1991. Now it is 30 years later and that chapter has finally been published as an article in Medieval Feminist Forum–but in … More The Rewards of Patient Scholarship with Patient Griselda

Delighted to have written the featured article for this issue of Humanities about the pilgrimage connections between Geoffrey Chaucer and Jack Kerouac. This photo from our pilgrimage in 1994 from Winchester to Canterbury by my husband, Jim, shows that women pilgrims still walk to sacred shrines even in our modern world.