Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon

An International Network Funded by the Leverhulme Trust

Jerusalem Through Women’s Eyes

  Judaean desert (credit: Diane Watt, 2016). This summer, I revisited Jerusalem, a city familiar to me long before I first set foot in it. Jerusalem is regarded as a holy place by Jews, Christians and Muslims, and many people encounter it for the first time through reading sacred texts. As a medievalist who has […]


Leverhulme Trust Boston Meeting: Gender and Genre Workshop

The second workshop in the Leverhulme-funded international networks research project, “Women’s Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon,” met at Boston University this summer from July 26th to 28th for three full and exciting days of papers, discussion and planning for future research. Entitled “Gender and Genre,” the workshop was attended by ten member of the […]


New Chaucer Society Congress Graduate Student Workshop 2016

  (Senate House Library, by stevecadman [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons) At the New Chaucer Society Congress in July 2016, I was fortunate to attend the Graduate Student Workshop on Manuscripts organised by Dr Aditi Nafde. The workshop consisted of a series of mini-lectures on the Sunday before the congress officially began and […]


Women’s letters from the margins: the case of Alice of Worcester

Persecuted Jews, BritLibCottonNeroDiiFol183v, Wikipedia Commons Scholarship on European women’s letter writing is increasingly challenging the canonical notion of women’s exclusion from medieval literary production. As Clare Monagle and I argue in a forthcoming chapter, there was a lot more letter writing by medieval women than has typically been recognised. However, even if we look beyond […]


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