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Helen Appleton
Helen Appleton is a Research Facilitator at the University of Oxford's Faculty of English. Her research focuses on pre- and post-conquest English literature. She is currently completing a monograph, Faith and the Land in Early Medieval England, which examines how saints and relics are imagined as influencing the space around them, both in life and post-mortem, as well as the impact of the population's devotion (or lack thereof) on their environment.
Courses
Christmas is coming. Think knights, banquets, carols and a massive Green man with an axe. Join us for a multidisciplinary feast of medieval merriment. We shall explore literary texts alongside historical accounts of the practice of feasting.