Jamie PageJamie Page

Contact Details

Email: jp86@st-andrews.ac.uk

I have been at St Andrews since 2004 when I first arrived to study German and Mediaeval History. Having graduated in 2008, I decided to stay on to complete an MLitt in Mediaeval Studies, which in turn led me to start a PhD in the Institute of Mediaeval Studies in October 2009. My current research interests have roots in the undergraduate modules I took on marginal groups in mediaeval society in the Department of Mediaeval History, and on Middle High German literature and gender studies in the School of Modern Languages.

My research is aimed at exploring the shaping of subjectivity in legal and literary texts from late mediaeval Germany, particularly those arising from the context of urban prostitution. I’m especially interested in using theories of power and identity to explore the ways in which gender was constructed and contested in these texts, and in finding methods to combine historical with literary sources in a joint approach to studying the period. On a much broader footing, I’m also interested in all aspects of gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages and in learning about critical and theoretical approaches to these topics.

Supervisors: Dr Bettina Bildhauer, Prof Frances Andrews

Academic papers:

  • Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages, St Andrews May 2009: "Prostitutes as litigants in 15th-century Germany"
  • Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages, St Andrews April 2010: "“Procuresses, prostitutes and the effacement of male desire in late mediaeval Augsburg”
  • Gender and Medieval Studies, Swansea January 2011: "Dubious subjects: prostitute witnesses at an abortion trial in late mediaeval Bavaria"
  • Urban Facts and Fictions, Swansea June 2011: "Honour, gender and agency in late mediaeval Germany and Switzerland"
  • Leeds IMC July 2012: "Marriage and Honour in the Town Council Court of 14th-century Zurich"

    Teaching:

    ME2003: Europe in the High Middle Ages
    MO5012: Manuscript Studies

    Other:

    Interview and consultation for television production firm Bilderfest for documentary on mediaeval prostitution ("Käufliche Liebe im Mittelalter," SAT. 1, 28.02.2012)

    Member of organising committee in 2010/2012 for postgraduate conference "Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages," hosted by the St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies

    Leeds IMC July 2012: Panel participant in round-table discussion sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, "Breaking the Rules: Gender and Employment within the Medieval Academy (Or, Are Women Cornering the Market?)"