Faculty Member, History
University of York, Centre for Medieval Studies
Thesis Title: Fictions of Fatherhood: fatherhood in late medieval English gentry and mercantile letters and romances.
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Nicola McDonald/Jeremy Goldberg
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About
My past and current research reflects a wide-ranging but interconnected series of interests largely related to the social, political and literary cultures of later medieval English society, particularly amongst urban elites and the gentry. Within these broad areas I am particularly interested in questions of gender/sexualities, especially masculinities; the household and family; Middle English romance and its audiences; and reading and writing culture. Having completed my doctoral work on fatherhood, I will now be publishing my thesis as a monograph with Boydell entitled Fictions of Fatherhood (forthcoming, date tbc). My current proposed long term project is to explore late medieval male adolescence, with a particular emphasis on premarital sexual experience and homosociality. I am also very interested in the language of letters and the nature of late medieval patronage. The complex ties of friendship, mutual obligation, service and duty will be my focus of analysis in a study of social networks, particularly their written expression, in gentry and mercantile circles of the late middle ages.
From September 2010 to September 2011 I was a postdoctoral researcher on the European Research Council Project "Signs and States" at Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de l’Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. The aim of the project is to study the cultural transformations which attended and permitted the development of the modern state in Europe from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries.
Currently I have a three year post as a lecturer in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford and as a member of Corpus Christi College.
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