Ready to Disport with you: Homosocial Culture amongst the Wool Merchants of Fifteenth-century Calais
Dr Rachel Moss
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Corpus Christi
I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, working on 'Beyond Between Men: the Medieval Homosocial Imagination'.
I was educated at the University of York and was granted my PhD in Medieval Studies from the University's Centre for Medieval Studies. Since then I have been a visiting lecturer in the History Department at Leeds Trinity University College and was a postdoctoral researcher on the European Research Council-funded project Signs and States: Semiotics of the Modern State at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. I took up my post at the University of Oxford in October 2011.
My past and current research reflects a wide-ranging but interconnected series of interests largely related to the social, political and literary cultures of later medieval English society, particularly amongst urban elites and the gentry. Within these broad areas I am particularly interested in: gender and sexualities, especially masculinities; the household and family; Middle English romance and its audiences; and reading and writing culture. I have just published my first book, Fatherhood and its Representations in Middle English Texts (D.S. Brewer, 2013).
