Dr Megan Cassidy-Welch
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 5977 |
| Email: | mecass@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 534 East |
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Research
Megan Cassidy-Welch is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and the University of London. She is the author of Monastic Spaces and their Meanings: Thirteenth-Century English Cistercian Monasteries (2001); Frightful Abodes of Misery: A Cultural History of the Medieval Prison (forthcoming); and co-editor with Peter Sherlock of Practices of Gender in Late-Medieval and Early Modern Europe (forthcoming, 2008). Megan's research deals with aspects of space, power and memory in medieval cultural and religious history. She is currently developing a research project on displacement and the aftermath of war in thirteenth-century France. Megan is past president of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS) and is a medieval area editor for H-France. In 2007, Megan is fourth-year honours coordinator for History.
Publications
Books
- Cassidy-Welch, Megan, Monastic Spaces and their Meanings: Thirteenth-century English Cistercian Monasteries, Turnhout: Brepols, 2001
- Cassidy-Welch, Megan, Frightful Abodes of Misery: A Cultural History of the Medieval Prison (forthcoming)
- Cassidy-Welch, Megan and Peter Sherlock, Practices of Gender in Late-Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Turnhout: Brepols, 2008 (forthcoming)
- Cassidy-Welch, Megan, Fighting, Praying, Working: An Introduction to Medieval History (History Teachers' Association of Victoria, 2006)
- Cassidy, Megan, Helen Hickey and Meagan Street, eds., Deviance and Textual Control: New Perspectives in Medieval Studies, University of Melbourne, Conference Proceedings Series no. 2, 1997
Chapters in books and refereed journal articles
- 'Negotiating patriarchies in late medieval and early modern Europe', in Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (with Peter Sherlock) Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2008)
- 'Grief and memory from Agincourt to the Treaty of Troyes, 1415-1420', in Andrew Villalon and Donald Kagay, eds., New Perspectives on the Hundred Years War (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming, 2007)
- 'A place of horror and vast solitude: medieval monasticism and the Australian landscape', in Stephanie Trigg, ed., Medievalism and the Gothic in Australia (Turnhout: Brepols; Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2005), pp. 189-204
- 'Prisoners of war after Agincourt: Gender, mourning and cultures of captivity in fifteenth-century France', Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, 12 (2003), 9-22
- 'Pilgrimage and embodiment: Captives and the cult of saints in late-medieval Bavaria', in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 20: 2 (2003), 47-70
- 'Testimonies from a fourteenth-century prison: Rumour, evidence and truth in the Midi', in French History, 16:1 (2002), 3-27
- 'Incarceration and Liberation: Prisons in the Cistercian Monastery', in Viator: UCLA Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 32 (2001), 1-25
- 'Stephen of Sawley's “Speculum Novitii” and Cistercian Uses of Memory', in Cistercian Studies Quarterly, 35:1 (2000), 1-15
- ' “Non Conversi Sed Perversi”: The use and marginalisation of the Cistercian Lay Brother' in Megan Cassidy, Helen Hickey and Meagan Street, eds., Deviance and Textual Control: New Perspectives in Medieval Studies, University of Melbourne, Conference Proceedings Series no. 2, 1997, pp. 34-55
Teaching
131-237 The Crusades
131-238 Medieval Europe
131-408 The Medieval Body
Supervision
- Kathryn Smithies (PhD), The social and historical context of the 12th-13th-century French fabliaux
- Julianna Grigg (PhD), Transition, development and nationhood in early 8th century Pictland
- Darius von Güttner (PhD), The reception of crusading ideology in medieval Poland
- Helen Merritt (PhD), The Popish Plot
- Alison Ware (PhD), The wages of sin: a study of lay concepts of guilt in late-medieval England
- Celia Scott (PhD), Sanctity and gender in early Irish hagiography
- Sally Fisher (MA), Rural life in fourteenth-century southern England; a study of women and space
- Anne Holloway (MA), Fractured conscience, created identity: the early Dominican Order
- Christian Chenu (MA), Papal Theory and the crusades of the thirteenth-century