User:EmyP

This is my userpage...

(Stubs)

 * Bruce Robertson (judge)
 * Niketas Scholares
 * Louis Cools-Lartigue - still stub
 * Midlands3Cities

Decent

 * Gorleston Psalter


 * (Sandbox)

Academic Bits
Doctoral Thesis
 * (Provisional) Paternoster beads as mentioned in the Testamenta Eboracensia - trying to show how these items were viewed by those who owned them.

MA Thesis

2015
 * Piety in three later 14th century Yorkshire wills from the Testamenta Eboracensia.

Past research: 

2000
 * Chekhov
 * Folklore and the skazka

2001
 * Transliteration, libraries and the need for authority control

2002
 * Freedom of access to information in 20thC Russia

Interests:


 * Mediæval history


 * Lay piety, especially rosaries/paternosters (generalised from above)
 * Women
 * Courtly culture
 * Costume
 * Lay literacy
 * Manuscripts (dating before incunabula) (MSS Template, MSS (Psalters) to create list)
 * Digitisation
 * Illumination, especially marginalia
 * Personal hygiene - need to get writing this up!!
 * Domestic Toilets, Latrines, and Bathing
 * Monastic latrines and bathing
 * Oral hygiene
 * Water usage
 * Town planning
 * Disease
 * Hygiene and etiquette - c.f. Aquamanile, The Babbees' Book(an Etiquette manual)
 * Food and nutrition (e.g. purple to orange carrots)
 * Kievan Rus', especially the purported links between Britain and Rus' before the official embassies of Elizabeth I
 * Heraldry - Familial Blazon descent and Heraldic displays (e.g. the gatehouse at Butley Priory)
 * 19thC European history


 * Russia
 * Great Britain - social history
 * Folklore (Slavic)


 * Onomastics


 * Autistic Spectrum Disorders (specifically Asperger Syndrome/High Functioning Autism)

Life & travels
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