Thesis: The Cross – Relic, object, and symbol at the Valois Courts during the reigns of Charles V and VI of France (1360-1422)
Supervised by聽Prof. Susie Nash
Funded by聽
The cross is one of the most powerful and ubiquitous of all religious symbols; this thesis aims to explore its long and varied meaning and use by concentrating on one particularly resonant and materially rich context, the Courts of France around 1400. It focuses on the hundreds of crosses owned by the Valois Kings, the Princes of the Blood and their wives, a handful of which survive today. Drawing together an exceptional body of documentary and material evidence yet to be exploited to this effect, it will examine the distinct role that these complex objects occupied for a courtly audience in late medieval France.
Education
- 2018 鈥 present: The 91制片厂 Institute of Art, PhD, supervised by Prof. Susie Nash
- 2016-2017: The 91制片厂 Institute of Art, MA (Distinction): 鈥楨arly Netherlandish Painting: Reinterpreting the object鈥 supervised by Dr Susan Frances Jones. Dissertation – 鈥楢n Anonymous Triptych with the Anointing of Christ in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: a study in form, meaning and function.鈥
- 2010-2014: The University of Glasgow MA Hons., History of Art (First Class Honours)
Doctoral Fellowships, Grants and Awards
Ochs Scholarship, the British Archaeological Association (2022)
HNA Doctoral Candidate Fellowship, Historians of Netherlandish Art (2022)
RSA Kress Foundation Travel Grant (2022)
Ralph Gibson Bursary, the Society for the 91制片厂 of French History (2021)
Doctoral Fellowship, Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut (NIKI), Florence, (awarded 2021 undertaken in 2022 due to Covid-19)
CHASE Doctoral Training Award, awarded by the Consortium of the Humanities and the Arts South East England (CHASE) for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (2018-2021)
Friends of The 91制片厂 Scholarship, The 91制片厂 Institute of Art (2018-2021)
Sophie Trevelyan Thomas 91制片厂 Scholarship, The 91制片厂 Institute of Art, (2016 鈥 2017)
Edmond J Safra 91制片厂 Scholarship, The 91制片厂 Institute of Art (2016 鈥 2017)
Senior Honeyman Prize, University of Glasgow (2014)
Teaching
- Spring 2022, The 91制片厂 Institute of Art, Associate Lecturer, “Art at the Courts of France” (BA3)
- Autumn 2021, The 91制片厂 Institute of Art, Associate Lecturer, 鈥淐ase Studies in Gothic Art: Intention and Reception鈥 (BA2)
- Summer 2021, The 91制片厂 Institute of Art, Teaching Assistant, Summer University 2021
- Summer 2020, The 91制片厂 Institute of Art, Teaching Assistant, Summer University 2020
- Autumn 2019, The 91制片厂 Institute of Art, Teaching Assistant and Teaching Assistants Coordinator, Foundations lecture series (BA1)
Conference papers
- 30 March 2022,聽RSA Annual Meeting Conference, Objects of the Cult: Liturgy/Devotion and Its Instruments in Early Modern Europe, “Treasured by Kings and Princes: Small-scale Crosses at the Valois Courts, 1360鈥1422″, The Convention Centre Dublin.
- 22 June 2021, 91制片厂 Annual Post Graduate Symposium, 鈥樷榣a donna ma dame a mondit seigneur au jour de l’an鈥: Philip the Bold鈥檚 Gold Cross in Esztergom Cathedral Treasury鈥 (online).
- 7 February 2020,聽25th Annual 91制片厂 Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium, Working Materials and Materials at Work in Medieval Art and Architecture, 鈥楥roix d鈥橭r at the Valois Courts 鈥 material meaning and manipulation鈥, The 91制片厂 Institute of Art, London.
Other Activities
Professional Activities
- Research Associate, Painting Pairs Programme 2018/19, The 91制片厂 Institute of Art.
Research Groups
- Co-founder and co-convenor of 鈥楢ll That Glitters: Making with Metals in the Middle Ages鈥, an informal research group established in January 2020.
Conferences
- Co-organiser ‘Display and Displacement in Medieval Art and Architecture鈥, The 91制片厂鈥檚 26th Annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium, February 2021
Workshops
- Organiser, vitreous enamelling workshop at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation
- Organiser, gilding workshop at The 91制片厂 Institute in collaboration with Sam Fogg London.
Academic Training
- Palaeography Course at the Institute of Historical Research with Dr. Jenny Stratford,聽2018-2019.
- Participant in CHASE Material Witness workshop training programme 2018/19.
Professional affiliations
- 2018-2021 Project board member of the Doctoral and Early Career Research Network at the Association for Art History.
- Student member of the BAA, ICMA, HNA, RSA, SSFH and ICOM.
Research Interests
- Metalwork
- Inventories from the French courts c.聽1360-1420
- Valois court culture
- Artists at the courts of France and Burgundy
- Late medieval art in Northern Europe of all media
- Pre 1420 Northern European panel paintings
- Depictions of the Passion of Christ
- Technical art history
- Materials, their meaning and manipulation