The Greatest Good, Episode 5: Professor Bob Mills – Nonbinary Gender in the Middle Ages: Recognising Wilgefortis (video podcast)

Podcast category: The Greatest Good

Professor Philip Schofield engages with art historian and former director of qUCL (UCL’s Queer Studies network), Professor Bob Mills, to explore the legend and cult of St. Wilgefortis in medieval Europe. Professor Mills highlights Wilgefortis as a non-binary figure, challenging both the popular belief that the Middle Ages adhered to strictly binary gender norms, and the notion that gender diversity is a modern phenomenon.

Professor Bob Mills is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of History of Art at UCL, and former director of qUCL, UCL’s Queer Studies network.