Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon

Justin M. Byron-Davies and Ko Jeong-hee In the early decades of Korea’s Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) a young woman who was renowned for her exceptional beauty, wit and keen intellect wrote the following reproof in verse to an eminent contemporary Neo-Confucian scholar: ‘What cause did I give you / To expect me to appear? / I […]

    Spice Cellar in the Shape of a Ship (c.1400) Walters Art Museum [Public domain: Wikimedia Commons ] by Vicki Kay, Bangor University In a letter dated November 5th, 1471, Margaret Paston forcefully wrote to her son John Paston (III), ‘I shall send yw money to by such stufe as I wull haue.’ It seems […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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, […]

  Miniature of Hildegard of Bingen from the Rupertsberger Codex of the Liber Scivias [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons by Jessica Harborne, Farnborough Sixth Form College In this blog post a student at the start of her academic career writes about encountering and researching medieval women’s writing. As a student of Medieval History, English Literature and […]