Finding women between the lines

One of the pleasures of blogging is that it gives you a space to tie up a few loose ends that you’ve been unable to find space for in more formal research. My doctoral thesis wasn’t really about gender all that much, and yet gender did and does come into my research, usually via the…

Telling God what he already knows: how to pray like an 11th-century monk

One of the great pleasures of my research is coming across little texts which open our eyes to the daily lives and inner experience of Anglo-Saxon men and women. My work mostly focuses on short rites for protection, healing and general life improvement – prayers, medical remedies, rituals to perform if you have lost your…

CMS Research Associates: Dr Kate Thomas

I’ve written a guest post for Outside the Walls, the blog of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. Source: CMS Research Associates: Dr Kate Thomas

For the Wynn

This is a place where I blog about interesting things that I have come across in my study of Anglo-Saxon literature. The title comes from the name of the Anglo-Saxon runic letter wynn, which represents the w sound: I’d love to claim credit for the pun, but unfortunately a friend of mine, who is much…