Catherine Medici

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Catherine Medici is a lecturer in Humanities in Medicine and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska. She has a PhD is early modern European and women’s and gender history. Her work focuses on women, gender, and chronic illness in the past and present.

Romancing Clio

Becoming a Scot and Cross-Cultural Marriages in Outlander and the Early Modern British Isles

By Catherine Medici • March 5, 2020

If you’ve heard about any historical romance, then you’ve probably heard of Outlander. The popular series by Diana Gabaldon follows Claire Beauchamp Randall, an English nurse who falls through time when visiting standing stones in the Scottish highlands in 1946. Transported to 1743, she is picked up by a band of Scots highlanders and falls… Read more →