Dr Megan Cassidy-Welch
Lecturer in Medieval European History
- Telephone:
- (+61 3) 8344 5977
- Email:
- mecass@unimelb.edu.au
- Fax:
- (+61 3) 8344 7894
- Location:
- Room 534 East
History, John Medley Building
The University of Melbourne VIC 3010
Academic Profile (click on the link for more information)
Research profile
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); and co-editor with Peter Sherlock of Practices of Gender in Late-Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2008). Megan's research deals with aspects of space, power and memory in medieval cultural and religious history. She is currently writing a book provisionally entitled The Medieval Refugee: Memory, Space and the Aftermath of War in thirteenth-century France.
Links
- The Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS)
- H-France
- Network for Early European Research (NEER)
- Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Melbourne (AMEMS)
Recent and forthcoming publications
Books
- Cassidy-Welch, Megan, Monastic Spaces and their Meanings: Thirteenth-century English Cistercian Monasteries, Turnhout: Brepols, 2001. Also available as an ebook
- Cassidy-Welch, Megan, Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination, c. 1150-1400 (forthcoming)
- Cassidy-Welch, Megan and Peter Sherlock, Practices of Gender in Late-Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Turnhout: Brepols, 2008
Articles and chapters in books
- ‘Images of Blood in the Historia Albigensis of Pierre of les Vaux-de-Cernay’, Heresis (2009) accepted, in press
- ‘Images of incarceration in late-medieval art’ in Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe, ed. G. Kratzmann (MacMillan Art Publishing/State Library of Victoria, 2009) accepted, in press)
- ‘The Crusades: experience, memory and history’, Agora 43: 3 (2008), 19-22
- ‘Introduction’ (with Peter Sherlock) in Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008), pp. 1-6
- ‘Creating and reflecting gender in late-medieval and early modern Europe’ (with Peter Sherlock), in Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008), pp. 319-28
- '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, 2008) pp. 133-50
- '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
Reviews
- Review of Karen Jones, Gender and Petty Crime in Late Medieval England, in The American Historical Review 113:1 (2008), 242-243
- Review of Laura Napran and Elisabeth van Houts, eds., Exile in the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004) in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 24:2 (2007), 208-211
- Review of Nancy Partner, ed., Writing Medieval History (Oxford: Hodder Arnold, 2005), in Women’s History Review 16 (2006)
- Review of Martin Heale, The Dependent Priories of Medieval English Monasteries. (Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell. 2004) in The American Historical Review 110:2 (2005), 538-40
- Review of Dominique Iogna-Prat, Order and Exclusion: Cluny and Christendom face Heresy, Judaism and Islam (1000-1150), tr. G.R. Edwards (Ithaca and New York; Cornell University Press, 2002) in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 22.1 (2005) 244-246
- Review of Suzannah Biernhoff, Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages, for H-France 2003
- Review of D. Wolfthal, ed., Peace and Negotiation: Strategies for Coexistence in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 18:3 (2002), 251-2
- Review of P. Crossley and Clarke, eds, Architecture and Language: Constructing Identity in European Architecture, c.1000-c.1650 in The Medieval Review (October 10th, 2001)
- Review of S.D. Church, ed., King John: New Interpretations in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 18:2 (2001), 146-147
Teaching areas
131-166 Medieval Plague, War and Heresy (first year)
131-276 Medieval and Renaissance Europe (second year)
672-306 The Crusades (third year)
131-704 The Medieval and Renaissance Body (fourth year)
Current postgraduate supervisions
- Kathryn Smithies (PhD), The social and historical context of the 12th-13th-century French fabliaux
- Jasmine Norrie (PhD), Prostitution in late-medieval England
- Helen Merritt (PhD), Popish Plot informers and the experience of authority in early modern England
- Julianna Grigg (PhD), Transition, development and nationhood in early 8th century Pictland
- Alison Ware (PhD), The wages of sin: a study of lay concepts of guilt in late-medieval England
- Catherine Scott (MA), The Education of Girls in early modern England
- Laura Juliff (MA), Byzantine responses to the Bogomil heresy
- Celia Scott (PhD), Sanctity and gender in early Irish hagiography
- Julie Davies (PhD, associate supervisor), Joseph Glanvill and the Witchcraft Debate in Late Seventeenth-century England
- Peter Weeda (PhD, associate supervisor), Irish Voyage Literature
- Matthew Champion (MA, associate supervisor), Nicholas Jaquier and the Flagellum Haereticorum Fascinariorum
- Laura Fava (BA Hons), Cistercians as agents of Innocent III in the Albigensian Crusade