SCRIPTA: Gender, Knowledge, and Agency in the Premodern Western European World

SCRIPTA: Studies in Coded Reading, Identity, Performance, Text, and Agency (800–1700) explores how gender and knowledge are enacted in premodern texts and manuscript cultures of Western Europe. But SCRIPTA does more than bring modern theory to bear on old texts—it asks what medieval and early modern forms of thought, embodiment, and textuality can offer to our contemporary conversations about agency, identity, and material culture. Through interdisciplinary collaboration across departments and regular engagement with Stanford’s Special Collections, SCRIPTA brings together students and faculty to analyze how texts and social structures intersect across time.