Kathryn Maude
- Roles
- Author
- Researcher
Team Leader: Medieval Specialists
About
Kathryn leads the Medieval team in the Collections Expertise and Engagement department at The National Archives. She specialises in the history and culture of the early Middle Ages, from the 10th to the 14th centuries, with a focus on histories of women, gender, and sexuality.
Research activity
Before joining The National Archives, Kathryn was Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the American University of Beirut. Her book, Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts, came out in Boydell and Brewer’s Gender in the Middle Ages series in 2021.
Her current research focuses on Ravenser Odd, a short-lived medieval island in the Humber, in collaboration with Dr Emily Robinson at the University of Sussex. She has recently co-curated an exhibition at the Hull History Centre, entitled Hull/Ravenser Odd: Twin Cities, Sunken Pasts.
She is interested in collaborative and creative research and welcomes enquiries from anyone interested in the Middle Ages and their continued relevance today.
Publications
- Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts, Boydell & Brewer (2021).
- Berhtgyth’s Letters to Balthard, ed. and trans. by Kathryn Maude, Medieval Feminist Forum Subsidia Series: Medieval Texts in Translation, 4 (December 2017).
- ‘Emma, Emperor and Evangelist: Creating Authority in British Library Additional MS 33241’, JEGP, 4 (October 2023), 459-481.
- ‘Mysticism Between Women in Early Medieval England’, in Gender and Medieval Mysticism from India to Europe, ed. by Alexandra Verini and Abir Bazaz, Routledge (2023).
- ‘Look at my Hands’: Physical Presence and the Saintly Intercessor at Wilton’, Dealing with the Dead: Mortality and Community in the Middle Ages, ed. by Thea Tomaini, Brill (2018).
- ‘Writing Community: the Opportunities and Challenges of Group Biography in the case of Wilton Abbey’, in Writing the Lives of People and Things, AD 500-1700, ed. by Robert Smith and Gemma Watson, Ashgate (2016).
- ‘She fled from the uproar of the world’: Eve of Wilton and the Rhetorics of Solitude’, Magistra, 21.1 (June 2015), 36-50.
- ‘Citation and marginalisation: the ethics of feminism in Medieval Studies’, Journal of Gender Studies, 23.3 (2014), 247-261.
Contact
If you are interested in collaborating on an academic research project, please get in touch.
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Blog post
On the Record: Working women in history
Including stories from the Middle Ages to the 1960s, this episode examines women’s jobs, their conditions, their struggles, and their resilience through time.