Clementine Pursey is a PhD student funded by the project. Clem completed their MLitt in Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews in 2024 and their BA in French and History at Aberystwyth University in 2023.
For their thesis, provisionally titled ‘The French Tongue and the English Body: On women’s linguistic and social identities in medieval England’, Clem is researching women’s use of Anglo-French and Latin around the fourteenth century. Using two trilingual compilation manuscripts of religious and linguistic instruction from the LAF project, Clem will explore how women are spoken to, spoken about, and how they shaped their identities.
