Joanna Huntington BA (Newcastle), MA (York), PhD (York), FRHistS.

Position:
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History

Teaching:

Joanna contributes to the BA History (New Directions in History; Ted and Bill’s Excellent Adventures: The Norman Conquest in context; and, from 2012-13, Stories of Glories I: History, legend, and the origins of King Arthur) and the MA Historical Studies and Medieval Studies programmes (Research Methods; The Once and Future King: The legend of King Arthur; Violence and Virgins: Conquests and reconciliations, c.1066-1167).

Research interests:

Joanna’s research interests include Anglo-Norman England, Normandy, medieval masculinities, ethnic identities, saints and sanctity, queenship, kingship, medieval conspicuous consumption, and the uses of history in the early to high middle ages.  Her current research project, for which she was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, is entitled ‘Heroes from Histories: Shaping lay male virtue in post-Conquest England and Normandy’, and examines the mutual expectations of laici and clerici by considering models of virtuous laymen as they are presented in historical texts. 

Research and professional groups:

The Social Church Research Network [by invitation] - annual research workshops organised by Dr Ian Forrest (Oriel College, Oxford) and Dr Sethina Watson (University of York).

The Orderic Vitalis Collaborative Research Network [by invitation] - a research project bringing together scholars from Durham University, University of East Anglia, University of Lincoln, and University of York: http://www.dur.ac.uk/cmrs/cmrs_projects/orderic/

Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS): http://www.anzamems.arts.uwa.edu.au/

The Lincoln Mystery Plays Trust [by invitation]: http://www.lincolnmysteries.co.uk/

Publications:

‘Edward the Celibate, Edward the Saint: Virginity and the construction of Edward the Confessor’, in Anke Bernau, Sarah Salih and Ruth Evans, eds, Medieval Virginities (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003), pp. 119-39.

‘Saintly power as a model of royal authority: The “royal touch” and other miracles in the early vitae of Edward the Confessor’, in Brenda Bolton and Christine Meek, eds, Aspects of Power and Authority in the Middle Ages, International Medieval Research series (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 327-43.

‘David of Scotland: “Vir tam necessarius mundo”’, in Steve Boardman, John Reuben Davies and Eila Williamson, eds, Saints’ Cults in the Celtic World (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2009), pp. 130-45.

'The taming of the laity: Writing Waltheof and rebellion in the twelfth century', Anglo-Norman Studies 32 (2010), pp. 79-95.