Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon

An International Network Funded by the Leverhulme Trust

Forthcoming Conference: Speaking Internationally: Women’s Literary Culture and the Canon in the Global Middle Ages

26 – 28 June 2019 Bangor University, LL57 2DG Bangor University is delighted to host the latest event in association with the International Research Network, Women’s Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon. About the conference Our last conference, held at Bergen in 2017, encouraged lively conversations that focused predominantly on European texts and authors. At Bangor we […]


Feminist Shakespeare? Almost Tangible’s Macbeth and the Power of Aristocratic Scottish Women in the Middle Ages

  Macbeth, Shakespeare: The Three Witches. Mezzotint by J.R. Smith, 1785, after H. Fuseli, 1783. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY. by Rachel Meredith Davis, University of Edinburgh Macbeth is the first major work of Almost Tangible, a new audio production company. Produced by Charlotte Melén and directed by Carl Prekopp, this free podcast of Shakespeare’s play seeks to […]


All The Winding World

by Kate Innes © Kate Innes     I take the flax, I take the wool and from the distaff, thread I pull. I take the yarn, I weave a cloth made of many lover’s knots. Around the spindle, I am bound. My heart, around your heart, is curled. Like the shuttle, up and down, […]


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