Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon

An International Network Funded by the Leverhulme Trust

Mapping Medieval Women Writers

by Amy Louise Morgan, Diane Watt and Sarah Wingrove This map identifies locations across England linked to the lives of medieval women writers and to medieval women who played a key role in literary history. Created by academics and researchers at the University of Surrey, and funded by an Arts & Humanities IAA award, the […]


Marie de France (fl.1160-1208), poet and translator

By Amy Louise Morgan Marie de France, Fables and Lais. Possibly Oxford (England), 1250s-1270s. The British Library Harley MS 978, on display at the British Library’s Medieval Women: In Their Own Words Exhibition (c) British Library Marie de France is one of the most well-known yet mysterious women writers of the medieval period. Often noted […]


Hild of Whitby (c.614 to c.680), literary patron

by Peter Mackie Bede’s Ecclesiastical History (Caedmon’s Hymn) in Oxford, Magdalen College, MS.Lat.105. Credit: The President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford. Reproduced with permission. Hild of Whitby, often known by the latinised version of her name, Hilda, was the founding Abbess of Streanaeshalch, now known as Whitby, high on the North Sea cliffs above […]


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