Doctoral Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (1/12)

25 February 2026

Lukas Erne

Dr. Devani Singh, UNIGE

Prof. Lukas Erne, UNIGE

Hannah Piercy (University of Bern) 

The fortnightly Geneva workshops, which have been in existence for some time and are attended and regularly contributed to by PhD students and staff from all CUSO universities and CUSO associated universities, respond to the need, expressed by PhD students, for regular, short bursts of training and a structure to which they belong. They cover practical topics such as using digital resources in medieval and early modern English studies; focused discussion of key medieval and early modern texts (e.g., Chaucer, Shakespeare) or scholarly issues (e.g., codicology, bibliography); and work-in-progress papers. The workshops usually last two-to-three hours.

25 February, Hannah Piercy (University of Bern), Premodern Women Writing Violence 

Why might premodern women writers provide a particularly useful source for thinking about types of violence and attitudes towards violence in the medieval and early modern eras? This workshop will provide an overview of the diverse approaches medieval women writers took to the subject of violence, before zooming in on one case study that bears witness to the variety of kinds of violence medieval women experienced and wrote about: The Book of Margery Kempe. 

UNIGE

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