Category: Manuscripts

“The Correct Path to Heaven: Mothering & Motherhood in English Manuscript Art, c.970-1030”

‘The Correct Path to Heaven: Mothering & Motherhood in English Manuscript Art, c.970-1030’ in Peopling Insular Art: Practice, Performance, Perception (Proceedings of the Eighth International Insular Art Conference (Glasgow, 2017), eds. Cynthia Thickpenny, Katherine Forsyth, Jane Geddes, and Kate Matis. Oxbow Books: July 2020.   After a wait, the 2017 International Insular Art Conference proceedings … Continue reading “The Correct Path to Heaven: Mothering & Motherhood in English Manuscript Art, c.970-1030”

Vice & Virtue As Woman?: The Iconography of Gender Identity in the Late Anglo-Saxon Psychomachia Illustrations

“Vice & Virtue as Woman?: The Iconography of Gender Identity in the Late Anglo-Saxon Psychomachia Illustrations.” Medieval Feminist Forum (Transgender Special Edition), ed. Dorothy Kim. Available here.   Abstract: In the Late Anglo-Saxon illustrated manuscripts of Prudentius's Psychomachia, vice and virtue are often shown ambiguously and the audience is encouraged to question what is male and what … Continue reading Vice & Virtue As Woman?: The Iconography of Gender Identity in the Late Anglo-Saxon Psychomachia Illustrations

PhD: Saints, Mothers, and Personifications: The Representation of Womanhod in Late Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

Abstract:  Scholars including Christine Fell, Pauline Stafford and Catherine Cubitt have tried to explain the status of women in Late Anglo-Saxon England in a variety of ways. Some, such as Fell, have framed the earlier Anglo-Saxon period as a Golden Age which saw greater freedoms; others, like Stafford, Cubitt, and Patricia Halpin, have argued for … Continue reading PhD: Saints, Mothers, and Personifications: The Representation of Womanhod in Late Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts