I will be taking part in the roundtable discussion, Press for Progress: Medieval Studies and Feminism. Booking information here.
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A Manuscript for Nuns: Cardiff, Central Library, MS 1.381
By Diane Watt, University of Surrey Cardiff, Central Library, MS 1.381, fol.94r. Decorated initial marking the beginning of the lections for St Hildelith (c) Diane Watt. In Cardiff, Central Library, MS 1.381, a life of the fifth-sixth century Breton saint Winwaloe, abbot of Landévennec (fols.1r-80v) is bound together with a collection of lives of the saints […]
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The Vienna Boniface Codex and the Origins of English Women’s Literary History
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna. Image copyright Diane Watt. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. Lat. Vindobonensis 751 (the Vienna Boniface Codex), which dates to the second half of the ninth century, is one of the most significant manuscripts in the history of English women’s literary history. Included within a collection of letters relating to St Boniface (672-754) and his […]
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Forthcoming event: University of Birmingham seminar Tuesday 28th November 2017
Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages Seminar series Co-hosted with the Centre for Literary Editing and Materiality of the Text Title: Women’s Literary Culture before the Conquest Location 201 – Arts Building Date Tuesday 28th November 2017 (17:00-19:00) I will deliver the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages seminar, talking about the […]
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Conceiving Histories: Re-Materialising An Empty Archive
The Conceiving Histories Exhibition at the Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck, University of London is the culmination of an innovative collaboration between my fellow medievalist, Isabel Davis, and the visual artist, Anna Burel, which focuses on what they call ‘un-pregnancy’ or ‘pregnancy feigned, imagined, hidden and difficult to diagnose’. Artwork by Anna Burel Walking in to […]
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The Nurse’s Tale: Histories, Archives and Forgotten Women.
RAF personnel unloading baggage for a group of Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service at Cherbourg, having disembarked from the liner BIARRITZ, 16 September 1939. Eva McIntosh is in the centre of the photo, at the foot of the gangplank. By the War Office official photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. 21 July 2017 is the official […]
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