Working thesis title: Mediators between the Living and the Dead: Funeral Effigies, Gisants and Heart Burials in France and Brittany 1400-1550.
Supervisor: Doctor Jessica Barker
Advisor: Professor Susie Nash
Education:
2018-2022: BA (hons), History of Art and Architecture, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
2022-2024: MA, Medieval Studies, University of York (Distinction). Dissertation: Late Medieval Expressions of Maternal Bereavement: Insights from the Life and Patronage of Anne de Bretagne.
Conference papers:
‘Miraculous Aged Virgin’ or Quintessential Virgin Martyr? Saint Apollonia in French Books of Hours of the Fifteenth Century. Gender and Sainthood 1050-1500 (University of Oxford, 6th – 7th April 2024).
‘Par Atropos, qui les cueurs humains fend’: The Tomb of the Children of Anne de Bretagne. Session 601: Mourning and Commemoration II: Arranging the Monument, Leeds International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds, 7th – 10th July 2025).
‘Hellish Mouths and Sinking Islands’: Whales in Late Medieval Thought. Medieval and Early Modern Students Association 2025 (University of Durham, 21st – 22nd July 2025).
‘DisMed8: Medievalists with Disabilities Roundtable. Leeds International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds, 6th – 9th July 2026).