Clementine Pursey

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 in the English Body: On women’s linguistic and social identities at Lacock Abbey,’ Clem is researching female monastic contact with Anglo-French and Latin in the late medieval period. Focusing on Beinecke Library, Osborn a56, a trilingual compilation manuscript that includes didactic texts and a copy of Bibbesworth’s Tretiz, Clem will explore how multilingualism shaped the stautus of women in English society.