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ItemFire(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013-03-01)This essay follows the complicated aftermath of the agency of fire in medieval Iceland and contemporary Australia. Through a close reading of two Norse sagas, we argue that despite fire's ephemeral nature its material effects are as evident in texts as they are in landscapes.
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ItemWomen in uniform: dress and performance in medieval court culture(Routledge, 2014)When women gather together to perform in such tournaments or take part as a group in other ritual performances associated with courtly culture, they raise intriguing questions about the late medieval understanding of femininity, feminine subjectivity, and feminine sexuality, especially when their identity is marked so decisively by heraldic or matching clothing. In this chapter I will explore some of the social meanings of this phenomenon.
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ItemBlogging, Time and Displacement(Wiley, 2012)Abstract This essay examines the relationship between blogging and other ostensibly more “serious” forms of writing, such as academic work. It explores the behavioural patterns known as “displacement activity” to describe the relationship between different kinds of writerly activity; and discusses the potential of blogging to break down some of the conventions of formal academic writing. It discusses the author’s Humanities Researcher blog.
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ItemParliamentary Medievalism: The Australian Magna Carta as Secular Relic(Australian Literary Studies, 2011)
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ItemFilming the Middle Ages (review)(New Chaucer Society, 2012)
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Item"Transgression, Perversion and Fanaticism": Postmodern Medieval Conditions(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
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ItemResponse to Bruce Holsinger, 'Getting metamedieval'(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)