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I studied History at University of Cambridge before moving to the University of Nottingham to complete an MA in Archaeology. I returned to Cambridge for her doctorate under the supervision of Prof. Elisabeth van Houts. My research interests lie in the social, cultural and religious history of Europe in the central middle ages, especially the Normans, religious life and gender. My approach is informed by both historical and archaeological methodologies as well as theory relating to the use and importance of space/place.

Recent Publications

Monographs

A Short History of the Normans (London: I.B. Tauris, 2016)

Religious Life in Normandy: Space, Gender and Social Pressure, c.1050-1300 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2007)

Edited volumes

eds Alison Gascoigne, Leonie V. Hicks and Marianne O’Doherty, Journeying Along Medieval Routes (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016)

eds Leonie V. Hicks and Elma Brenner, Society and Culture in Medieval Rouen, c.911-1300 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013)

Journal articles

‘Comings and Goings: The Use of Outdoor Space in Norman and Anglo-Norman Chronicles’, Anglo-Norman Studies, 32 (2010), 40-56

‘Magnificent Entrances and Undignified Exits: Chronicling the Symbolism of Castle Space in Normandy’, Journal of Medieval History, 35:1 (2009), 52-69

Essays in edited volumes

‘The Religious Life and the Use of Space at Le Bec’ in  eds Benjamin Pohl and Laura Gathagan, A Companion to the Abbey of Le Bec in the Central Middle Ages (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 278-306

‘Normans Travelling to and in Southern Italy and Sicily’ in eds Alison Gascoigne, Leonie V. Hicks and Marianne O’Doherty, Journeying Along Medieval Routes (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016), pp. 115-42; also the co-authored introduction in the same volume, pp. 0-22

‘The Landscape of Pilgrimage and Miracles in Norman Narrative Sources’, in eds. K. Hurlock and P. Oldfield, Crusading and Pilgrimage in the Norman World (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2015), pp. 177-94

‘The Concept of the Frontier in Norman Chronicles: a Comparative Approach’, in eds  A. Jotischkyand K. Stringer, Norman Expansion: Connections, Continuities, and Contrasts c. 1050-c. 1200 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013), 143-64

‘Through the City Streets: Movement and Space in Rouen as Seen by the Norman Chroniclers’ in eds Leonie V. Hicks and Elma Brenner, Society and Culture in Medieval Rouen, c.911-1300 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013); also the introduction and an essay on ‘The Jews in Medieval Rouen’ co-authored with Brenner in the same volume

‘Monastic Authority, Landscape and Place in the Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis’, in Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles, ed. J. Dresvina and N. Sparks (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Press, 2012), 102-20

 

 

 

 

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Western Europe

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Medieval

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Gender, Material Culture