Gender and Medieval Studies

Gender and Status in the Medieval World, Historical Reflections / Reflexions Historiques 42 (2016). Special Edition ed. by Katherine Weikert and Elena Woodacre.

Reconsidering Gender, Time and Memory in Medieval Culture.
Edited by Elizabeth Coz, Liz Herbert McAvoy and Roberta Magnani.

Troubled Vision. 
Edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills.

Medieval women in their communities. 
Edited by Diane Watt.

‘The Enclosed Garden: Pleasure, Contemplation and Cure in the Hortus Conclusus 1100-1450′ is a 2-year Leverhulme Trust funded project focusing on the medieval hortus conclusus [enclosed garden] between 1100 and 1450, as it manifested itself within a number of contexts: literary, historical, theological, physical and medicinal. It is being run until October 2017 by Professor Liz Herbert McAvoy at Swansea University, assisted by Professor Trish Skinner and Dr Theresa Tyers. For more information, see the project website and blog.

‘Women’s Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon’ is a 3-year network research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, being run by Professor Diane Watt at the University of Surrey. It involves an array of international partners from the UK, US, Norway and Switzerland. By bringing together this group of international scholars, all of whom work on both canonical medieval writers and on women’s literary culture in England and Europe, this network aims to demonstrate the importance of considering women’s engagement with literature for an understanding the established canon. It explores whether Chaucer and other male authors have more in common with women’s literary culture than has previously been assumed. For more information, see the project website and blog at: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/medievalwomen/