Scholar - Women Also Know History

Participant Info

Keywords: Medieval literature and history, medieval women's reading habits, material culture of the late Middle Ages, religion in late medieval England, connections between English and French languages in later Middle Ages.

About Me: I was awarded my PhD in 2019 from the University of Warwick, where I also read for my undergraduate degree, having undertaken my Masters studies at the University of Oxford. My research focuses on the literature and history of the later Middle Ages. I am especially interested in the religious literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, religious culture in later medieval England, women’s reading habits in the fifteenth century, and the material culture of late medieval England, with a particular emphasis on the fifteenth-century household. I have published on medieval women’s writing and late medieval religious lyrics, and my first book, on the subject of domestic imagery in later medieval religious writing, will be published in January 2022.

Recent Publications: Monograph

Cushions, Kitchens, and Christ: The Domestic Imaginary in Late Medieval Religious Literature (forthcoming January 2022)

Journal Article

‘The Function of “O Man Unkynde” in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 330, and Trinity College Cambridge O.2.53’, The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures, 46.2 (2020), 162-185

Book Chapter

2019 ‘Shopping or Scrimping? The Contested Space of the Household in Middle English Devotional Literature’, in Gender: Places, Spaces, and Thresholds, ed. by Diane Heath, Victoria Blud and Einat Klafter (London: Institute of Historical Research, January 2019), pp. 171-183

Blogposts

2020 (With Godelinde Perk, Lieke Smits and Orsolya Mednyánszky) ‘Boundless Adaptivity: Female Spirituality and Textual Transformations’, for the University of Oxford’s TORCH Blog https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/boundless-adaptivity-female-spirituality-and-textual-transformations

2017 ‘Finding Christ in the Kitchen: Making Oneself at Home with Mechtild of Hackeborn’, for the online blog of the Women’s Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon research network www.blogs.surrey.ac.uk/medievalwomen/2017/04/03/finding-christ-in-the-kitchen-making-oneself-at-home-with-mechtild-of-hackeborn/