#ShePersisted #LetLizSpeak “I’m reading silence everywhere! No joke. I’ve started noticing all the manterruptions on the news, and all the groups of people being silenced…I really, truly cannot get away from this class, ever, but in a good way!” This is what a student of mine wrote about my class called The Sounds of Silence: … More Making Silence Understood

A  wonderful piece posted by Hannah Lucas on the blogsite by Women’s Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon tells of the image of the Virgin Mary in the “enclosed garden.” Lucas takes this image and links it to theology, pilgrimage, and gender implications of women’s spirituality. A wonderful read!  

Today The New York Times writes about Kaija Saariaho’s opera L’Amour de Loin. Set in the Middle Ages, it is — shockingly– only the second time in the Metropolitan Opera’s history that a woman composer’s opera is being performed. Kaija Saariaho’s opera premiered in Salzburg over 10 years ago. The libretto is by the “Lebanese-born … More A History of Classical Music (The Women-Only Version)

I’m delighted that this blog for A Medieval Woman’s Companion has been nominated for the Blogger Recognition Award. It came totally out of the blue from English Lit Geek (love the name!). Many thanks to Denise. History of my Blog I began this blog to support my book on medieval women. My students have really … More Blogger Recognition Award

A ‘Literary Queen’ in the Arctic

Listen to over 900 pieces of music by women, including Kassia, the Byzantine abbess, and Hildegard von Bingen.

A post on Medievalists.net by Danièle Cybulskie has helped draw attention to a  website hosted by the distinguished medieval scholar, Dr. Joan Ferrante. As this new post explains, “Lucky for us, Dr. Joan Ferrante (Professor Emeritus at Columbia University) and her team have made a website that features letters to and from medieval women, all … More Website with Medieval Women’s Letters

“A Medieval Woman’s Companion: Women’s Lives in the European Middle Ages by Susan Signe Morrison offers a treasure trove of information about the trail blazing women who lived during a tumultuous time in Western European history. In this book designed for young adult readers, the author introduces – in six informative and interesting chapters – … More New Review: 5 Stars!

Read Alwyn Marriage’s beautiful poem about Hildegard von Bingen from the site on Women’s Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon. Hildegard: Doctor of the Church Hildegard believed that herbs for the body’s healing had a part to play, with prayer, in the soul’s salvation; and perceiving the greening of earth and heaven from far beyond … More Beautiful Poem about Hildegard von Bingen

The blog site, femmeliterate, currently features medieval women writers. As the post states, “This post, our newest The Feminists are Teaching feature, is the first in a series of three to showcase work done by junior scholars in the Integrative Humanities class taught by Dr. Meriem Pages at Keene State College, Introduction to Thinking and … More The Feminists are Teaching: Medieval Women Writers