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My research is concerned with late-medieval religious controversy, specifically the Wycliffite heresy. I am particularly interested in how the academic genres of biblical commentary and florilegia favoured by Wycliffites overlap with popular devotional writings. My previous research (to appear in print in 2025), examined the transmission of academic methods of visualising information into the manuscript layouts of popular devotional tracts.

Currently, I'm researching a Wycliffite text deeply invested in popular discourses of affective piety: a commentary on the Psalms known as RV3. This extensive commentary, completed around the turn of the 15^th century, interests me as a reference point for reformist scriptural hermeneutics. Through the Psalms, the Wycliffite commentator[s] fashions an understanding of his own status as the member of a persecuted sect existing in the final, apocalyptic age of the Catholic Church.

My doctorate is supervised by Professor Michael Van Dussen and I am currently working with him as a research assistant on a project centred on reformist encyclopaedias. This work examines manuscripts of two related Wycliffite florilegia, the Floretum and Rosarium, which were copied widely in England and Bohemia.