Graduate Student, Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Thesis Title: The Bestiary and didactic culture in Canterbury 1100-1350
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A.Bovey@kent.ac.uk
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About
Research Interests:
Bestiaries, Neo-platonism, Physiologus, Etymologies,
Canterbury
St.Anselm, Christ Church Cathedral, St. Augustine's Abbey, Rochester Priory, Dover Priory
Also interested in medieval monster theory
Co-Secretary for Colloquia for The London Medieval Society
2011 Leeds IMC Panel on Bestiaries with Trish Stewart (SAIMS, St. Andrews) and Dr. Ilya Dines (Koln Institut)sponsored by MEMS
Manchester University Conference 6-7 June 2011 on Education and Ignorance - paper on the Paris BnF NAL 873 and Speculum Stultorum
...and some fun stuff - Cradled in Caricature at University of Kent 20th June - how to make a medieval monster!
Lead Organizer for
AHRC funded postgraduate interdisciplinary Colloquium on
Bad Behaviour in Medieval and Early Modern Europe on 3rd December 2009, and
Co-organizer for AHRC PG Conference on Explaining Supernatural Nature in St. Andrews in April, 2010
Presenting a paper at Mearcstapa Session I in Kalamazoo in May 2010
Presenting a paper at SRS Biennial Conference in York July 2010
Co-organizer for Conference on Use & Abuse of Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Towns; MEMS, University of Kent, 8-9th July, 2010, see MEMS website for full details
