Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, is one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England

Megan Cassidy-Welch is an expert in Medieval Studies. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[1] Cassidy-Welch is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Program Director at the Australian Catholic University.

Education

Cassidy-Welch received her MA from Birkbeck, University of London, in 1993, and her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 1998.[2] Her doctoral thesis focused on Thirteenth-Century English Cistercian Monasteries: Monastic Spaces and their Meanings.[3]

Career

Before her employment at ACU in 2021, Cassidy-Welch was the first woman and the sixth McCaughey Chair in History, and Head of the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland.[4][5]

Cassidy-Welch has published four monographs and seven edited volumes. Her first monograph, Monastic Spaces and their Meanings: Thirteenth-Century English Cistercian Monasteries (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001), was based on her doctoral thesis.[6] Her most recent monograph, Crusades and Violence, was published in 2023 by ARC Humanities Press.[7]

Bibliography

Monographs

  • The Crusades and Medieval Violence (ARC Humanities Press, 2023)
  • War and Memory at the Time of the Fifth Crusade (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019)
  • Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination, c. 1150-1400 (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011)
  • Monastic Spaces and their Meanings: Thirteenth-Century English Cistercian Monasteries (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001)

Edited volumes

  • Landscapes of Conflict and Encounter in the Crusading World, special issue of the Journal of Medieval History 47:3 (2021), co-edited with Beth Spacey
  • Entangled Histories of Gender and Emotion in the Medieval Mediterranean, special issue of Emotions: History, Culture, Society 4:2 (2020)
  • Remembering Crusades and Crusading (London: Routledge, 2017)
  • Memory and the Crusades: Rethinking Past and Present, co-edited with Anne E. Lester (London and New York: Routledge, 2015)
  • Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe co-edited with Peter Sherlock (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008)
  • Memory and the Crusades: Rethinking Past and Present, special issue of The Journal of Medieval History, issue 3, 2014, co-edited with Anne E. Lester
  • Medieval Practices of Space and Place, special issue of Parergon, issue 27:2, 2010

References

  1. ↑ Pressler, Abra (2023-11-22). "Announcing 2023 Academy Fellows". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
  2. ↑ "Megan Cassidy-Welch". The Conversation. 2011-06-26. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
  3. ↑ "University of Melbourne Library / All Locations". cat2.lib.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
  4. ↑ "Professor Megan Cassidy-Welch". St Catherine's School. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
  5. ↑ "Megan Cassidy-Welch". The Conversation. 2011-06-26. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
  6. ↑ Hill, Bennett D (2003). "Monastic Spaces and Their Meanings: Thirteenth-Century English Cistercian Monasteries (review)". The Catholic Historical Review. 89 (1): 94–95. ISSN 1534-0708.
  7. ↑ Cassidy-Welch, Megan (2023-06-30), "Crusades and Violence", Crusades and Violence, ARC Humanities Press, doi:10.1515/9781802701296/html?lang=en, ISBN 978-1-80270-129-6, retrieved 2023-11-22
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