Secret Women’s Business: Feminine Hygiene in the Middle Ages by Rosalie Gilbert

We don’t discuss it in polite company, because it’s one of ‘Those Things’. It’s not Nice. In fact, it’s a little bit gross. Medieval women faced many challenges like modern women today, some of them quite mundane. Nothing is more mundane than the workings of the woman’s body in her natural cycle, and yet we […]

The Journey of a Sofer: A Study into Spiritual Calligraphy by Brodie Taylor

Sacred texts govern and guide a vast majority of our daily lives, through allegories, ancient stories and centurial sesquipedalian sentences that take years to truly understand. The protocols surrounding these sacred texts can be even more complicated, providing for a fascinating form of scholarship. In the Jewish tradition, the Torah Scroll, or Sefer Torah has […]