Participant Info
- First Name
- Jennifer
- Last Name
- Farrell
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- j.farrell@exeter.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of Exeter
- Website URL
- https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/history/staff/jfarrell/
- Keywords
- Geoffrey of Monmouth, medieval prophecy, medieval gender, medieval magic, medieval supernatural, medieval romance, Arthurian romance, King Arthur, Marie de France, medieval Paris, medieval historical writing
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I completed my PhD in 2012 at University College Dublin with a dissertation on ‘Prophecy as History: The Classical and Christian Inheritance of Geoffrey of Monmouth’. This dissertation focused on the form and function of the prophecies of Merlin within Geoffrey’s Historia regum Britanniae, and their contribution to the work’s significance for his Anglo-Norman contemporaries. I am currently re-working this material for publication as a monograph, extending the focus to include an examination of the wider forms of prophecy found in the work and their contribution to its thematic unity.
I am also currently working on a project focused on medieval ideas about gender during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, making particular use of what the representation and role of the supernatural can tell us about contemporary ideas regarding the gendered ‘other’ or ‘alien’ in society. This work considers the ways in which sexual, social and intellectual identities that fell both within and outside of ‘normative’ and ‘binary’ gender categories were established, reinforced or challenged through use of magic and the supernatural.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @dr_j_farrell
- Country Focus
- England, France
- Expertise by Geography
- Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Medieval
- Expertise by Topic
