“The Mothering Body: Women, Motherhood and the Body in Late Anglo-Saxon England.” in More Fuss About the Body: New Medievalists’ Perspectives. Edited by Leah Pope Parker and Stephanie Grace-Petinos. [Forthcoming]. The body in Late Anglo-Saxon England is alternatively hidden and revealed, and none more so than the body of the mother. Texts ranging from Beowulf to … Continue reading The Mothering Body: Women, Motherhood, and the Body in Late Anglo-Saxon England
I have presented my research at a variety of conferences, including at the 2018 Gender & Medieval Studies Conference at the University of Oxford and the British Library Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms Early Career Symposium in December 2018, and plan to continue to do so as the research develops. My initial observations to be published by the … Continue reading The Anglo-Saxon Psychomachia Manuscripts
“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
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
Dr. Stephenie McGucken 