Alexandra Barratt

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Recent Publications (since 2000)

All linked material is in downloadable pdf form.

Book:

The Knowing of Women's Kind in Childing: A Middle English Version of Material Derived from the Trotula and Other Sources. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts 4 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001)

Chapters in Books:

'"No Such Sitting": Julian Tropes the Trinity', A Companion to Julian of Norwich, ed. E. H. McAvoy (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008), pp. 42-52

"The Innocent Sensuality of Gertrud the Great", in Intersections of Sexuality and The Divine in Medieval Culture, ed. by Susannah Mary Chewning (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 107-119

“Teaching Anchoritic Texts: The Shock of the Old”, in Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts, ed. by Dee Dyas, Roger Ellis and Valerie Edden (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2005), pp. 131-143

“Some Reflections on Wombs and Tombs and Inclusive Language”, in Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages, ed. by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Mari Hughes-Edwards (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005), pp. 27-38

"Small Latin? The Post-Conquest Learning of English Religious Women", in Siân Echard and Gernot R. Wieland (eds), Anglo Latin and its Heritage: Essays in Honour of A.G. Rigg on His 64th Birthday, Publications of The Journal of Medieval Latin 4. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001), pp. 51-65

"Continental Women Mystics and English Readers", in David Wallace and Carolyn Dinshaw (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 240-255

"Envoluped in Synne: The Bolton Hours and Its Confessional Formula", in Richard Firth Green and Linne R. Mooney (eds), Interstices: Studies in Late Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A.G. Rigg ( University of Toronto Press): pp. 1-14

"Lordship, Service and Worship in Julian of Norwich", in The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Exeter Symposium VII: Papers read at Charney Manor, July 2004, ed. E. A. Jones ( Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2004), pp. 177-88
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" Hull [née Malet], Eleanor, Lady Hull", entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004: also in electronic form)

Refereed Journal Articles:

"Literacy and Education in the Writings of Gertrud the Great of Helfta", Magistra 6 No. 2 (2000), 5-30

"Dame Eleanor Hull: The Translator at Work", Medium Aevum 72 (2003), 277-96

Conference Papers:

"The English Nun and the Dutch Beguine: Anne Bulkeley's Book (MS Harley 494) and Maria Oistrewijk", Centre for Medieval and Early Modern European Studies Conference, University of Auckland, February 2003

"Keeping Body and Soul Together: The Charge to the Cellaress of Barking Abbey", 37 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2003

"Anne Bulkeley's Book: MS Harley 494", 38 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2004

"Lordship, Service and Worship in Julian of Norwich", The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Exeter Symposium VII, Charney Manor, Oxfordshire, July 2004

"Carried Forward: English Translations for Women to 1550", Old Worlds, New Worlds, 5th ANZEMEMS Conference, February 2005, Auckland

"Singing from the Same Hymnsheet: Two Bridgettine Manuscripts", 19th York Manuscripts Conference: Making the Medieval Manuscript: Book Production in Britain 1375-1525, July 2005

"Manuscript Versions of Richard Whitford and William Bonde in British Library MS Harley 494", New Finds in Old Books, 1350-1550, sponsored by the Early Book Society, Queen's University, Belfast, July 2005