About
Taylor's research interests deal broadly with women, gender, and religion in medieval and early modern England. Her dissertation, titled "Everyday Women and the English Reformation: Gender and Religion in the Diocese of Salisbury, 1450-1600," looks beyond the most legible agents of religious change and focuses instead on how non-elite laywomen adapted reform and its repercussions to meet their spiritual and social needs, engaging gendered practice at the parish level to cultivate meaningful connection with their communities and the divine. Taylor’s research has been supported by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, the Manuscript Society, and the American Historical Association.
Fields of Study
- Women's History
- Gender & Sexuality
- Church & Religious History
- Medieval & Early Modern Europe
- Medieval & Early Modern Britain
- Atlantic World
Recent Conference Presentations
2022 | Gatekeeping the Middle Ages: Accessing, Controlling, and Disseminating the Medieval Past in the Modern World (Roundtable), International Medieval Congress-Leeds
2022 | Crumpling the Timeline: Teaching Medieval Texts Alongside Non-Medievalist Contemporary Work (Roundtable), International Congresss on Medieval Studies-Kalamazoo
2019 | "Any Person or Persons, Any Man or Any Woman": Gender, Transgression, and the Parish in the Diocese of Salisbury (Panel Organizer), Sixteenth-Century Society & Conference
2019 | Saints and Siblings: Prescribing and Practicing Sisterhood in Late Medieval England, American Society of Church History
Web-Based Writing
In Preparation | “The Potiphar’s Wife Playbook” Reverb Effect U-M History Podcast
2021 | “High Stakes History,” History Matters Magazine
2019 | “Searching for Solidarity in Madeline Miller’s Circe,” Nursing Clio
2019 | “The Patron Saint of Bachelorettes,” Patheos: Anxious Bench
