Research

Doctoral Research

Florence H R Scott's doctoral thesis is entitled ‘Christian queenship and inauguration rites in early medieval England’. The project was supervised by Professor Julia Barrow and Professor Pauline Stafford and fully funded by a University of Leeds scholarship.

It is available to read open-access via White Rose eTheses Online.

This thesis is a study of the ideology of queenship and its conception as a Christian role in early medieval English inauguration rites. It demonstrates what focusing on queenship and the independent textual history of the rites of queens can contribute to wider considerations of liturgical, ideological and political developments in this period.

Publications

'Hugeburc of Heidenheim, Lives of Wynnebald and Willibald', in The Palgrave Encylopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages, ed. by Michelle M Sauer, Diane Watt and Liz Herbert McAvoy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

Forthcoming: 'Emma of Normandy and the Gendered Iconography of Crowns', in Gender, Memory and Documentary Culture, 900-1300, ed. by Laura Gathagan and Charles Insley (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2024)