Research

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.

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.

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.

(British Library, Egerton MS 2849/1, mem. 1r. Miniature heading Lucy of Hedingham's mortuary roll, 13th c.)