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Gender, Emotion, and a prize-winning Conference

Having recently passed the viva for my thesis ā€˜Painful Transformations: A Medical Approach to Experience, Life Cycle and Text in British Library, Additional MS 61823, The Book of Margery Kempe’, it seems like a timely moment to reflect on the past few months and years of my postgraduate study at Exeter. I am grateful to […]


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The Foundations of English Law, in Exeter

Of the many celebratedĀ names connected with medieval Exeter,Ā Bracton is one of only a handful to claim global recognition. Bracton is known to students and practitioners of law throughout the Anglophone world as a founding father of English Common Law and the assumed author ofĀ an invaluableĀ compendiumĀ ‘On the Laws and Customs of England’. While he is widely […]


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