1100 - 1540
Pilgrims and Pilgrimage
Sums up basic aspects of women and pilgrimage for this encyclopedia on women and gender.
Pilgrimage, Gender, and Theory. Where are the Women Pilgrimage Poets of the Fourteenth Century?
Asks why Christine de Pizan did not write a pilgrimage narrative despite its being the prevalent form for writers in the 14th century. Compares de Pizan with Margery Kempe.
'Scholarship on Literary Pilgrimage' and 'Theory and Pilgrimage'
Focus on literary theory and pilgrimage texts such as Chaucer and Langland. Theoretical approaches to medieval literary pilgrimage texts.
Women and Pilgrimage
Explores aspects of gender and women with pilgrimage practice. Theoretical, art historical, literary, and historical aspects.
Parish Churches on Pilgrimage Routes: Images, History, Memory
Examination of images and their memory on pilgrimage routes with special focus on Walsingham.
Waste Space: Pilgrim Badges, Ophelia, and Walsingham Remembered
Explores the prehistory of Ophelia's reference to Walsingham and the sacred and profane aspects of her utterance. Pilgrimage badges are explored.
Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England: Private Piety as Public Performance
Examination of women pilgrims in late medieval England with focus on Walsingham, spatial theory, religious and secular texts, Margery Kempe, and approaches to women and pilgrimage.
Pilgrimage in Medieval Ireland
To date my research has concentrated on the history and archaeology of pilgrimage in early and late medieval Ireland. In 2010 I completed a PhD thesis 'Pilgrimage in Medieval Ireland AD 600-1600'. I am also very interested in pilgrim roads and routeways as well in pilgrim souvenirs and burials in Ireland and the rest of Europe. Recently I have begun to record modern pilgrimages at holy wells in Ireland.