Research
A rare copy of a popular fifteenth-century devotional text the Fifteen Oes of St. Bridget. New York City, Columbia University. Plimpton Add. MS. 4.
Whether it be the spiritually transformative function of the Eucharist or grisly public executions of traitors, I seek to grasp how things mattered and were perceived by men and women living in the high and late Middle Ages. My current projects examine the uses of devotional texts and mnemonics in the late-medieval Mass; the manufacturing of kingship through political prophecy; scribal culture and gender norms; and the theatricality of public spectacles of violence. I also enjoy studying constructs and receptions of selfhood, identity, and the other.