Women's Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon

PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE IN ENGLISH, 1400 – PRESENT: A CONFERENCE About this Event Across history people have used letters to communicate. Letters were used in the exchange of news, emotions and opinions; they constructed networks, formed and destroyed friendships and relationships. Personal correspondence has been intrinsic to human society, bonding and breaking links between individuals, family […]

by Alison Hudson, University of Central Florida Image above: Christine de Pizan writing, from a manuscript that contains her autograph (Paris, BnF Français 835, f. 1r). “Who is your favourite pre-modern, female scribe?” If you were to ask any cataloguer, librarian, curator or scholar of pre-modern writing that question, they would probably have a few […]

by Teresa Pilgrim After four days of excellent workshops, papers, Q&As and incredible feminist collegiality at GMS2021, this morning I am left feeling exhilarated, full of new ideas and possibilities, but also a little deflated as I reflect upon my virtual presence at the conference… My sudden silence (self-imposed) in Q&A panels and discussions on […]

  The Pastons were an important family in late medieval and early modern Norfolk, but they are most famous today for the extensive collection of their letters and papers that has survived to the present day: the so-called Paston Letters. These documents provide a remarkable insight into the personal as well as political lives of […]

I am pleased to announce the publication of his special colloquium on gender and genre in Studies of the Ages of Chaucer 42, co-edited by Laura Saetveit Miles and myself, which brings together some of the important research undertaken as part of the Leverhulme Trust funded Women’s Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon network.

Registration is now open for this year’s Gender and Medieval Studies Conference is on Gender and Mobility. This year it is a free virtual conference, hosted by the University of Surrey, taking place on 11th-13th January. We have three plenary speakers: Professor Liz Herbert McAvoy (Swansea University) Dr Rachel Moss (University of Northampton) Dr Mine […]