Books of Hours Books of Hours were the bestsellers of the later Middle Ages, the one book every semi-literate and upwardly-mobile individual would have owned. This ubiquity makes them a valuable window into the religious and literary practices of everyday laypeople. Read more about Books of Hours
Publications Books Saints as Intercessors between the Wealthy and the Divine: Art and Hagiography among the Medieval Merchant Classes. Co-edited with Emily Kelley. New York: Routledge, 2019. Read more about Publications
Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England Late medieval thinkers and writers weren't interested in their island's Anglo-Saxon past; it would be up to early modern antiquarians and reformation polemicists to "rediscover" pre-Conquest history. Or so the received narrative tells us. Read more about Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England
Doing History in a Liturgical Mode in English Nunneries (British Library, Egerton MS 2849/1, mem. 1r. Miniature heading Lucy of Hedingham's mortuary roll, 13th c.) Read more about Doing History in a Liturgical Mode in English Nunneries
