This article draws on recent scholarship in premodern critical race theory and the history of
childhood to argue that in the Prioress's Tale, whiteness signifies innocence and describes …

This article argues that the ambiguity and scarcity of the evidence for the existence of the
Black Madonna before the year 1500 need not prevent medievalists practicing premodern …

This essay explores two texts in a fifteenth-century manuscript from Thetford Priory, Norfolk
(now ms 329 in the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge). The first is an …

Mary’ s perpetual virginity that remained unaltered by her pain-free parturition, marked
her out as unique among women. In much male-authored literature the Virgin has been …

The ubiquity of the Virgin Mary in medieval religious culture would seem to suggest the
constant presence or awareness of mothers in its literature. The near-total absence, then, of …