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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Enjoying conversations, coffee and trees at Birkbeck 💜

A street in Bloomsbury with university buildings and a tree in the sun.

Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My article 'Synagoga as Mother in Ekbert of Schönau's Stimulus amoris' is out now in JMRC 52.2, on a striking and influential medieval text that has gone understudied. Cn medieval antisemitism intersecting with misogynistic ideas of fertility/infertility and birth (abstract in picture) 1/

Edinburgh CRC MS 113, open at ff. 241v-242r.

'Synagoga as Mother in Ekbert of Schönau’s Stimulus amoris', abstract (and first page of PDF version): This article proposes that the (understudied) twelfth-century Stimulus amoris text, which notably describes Christ’s body as aborted matter from the womb of his mother Synagoga, was a key influence on later medieval devotional culture and its gendered anti-Judaism, and accordingly the article provides a close analysis of this striking passage. The article discusses the text’s usage of material from Isaiah, Job, and the Gospel of John, exploring the implications of each according to Christian typology and the supersession, and argues that Christ and Synagoga should in this way be recognized as an alternate, but equally important, form of the “Jesus as Mother” trope usually applied to Christ and Mary.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Sad to miss #NCS2026 but thank you to @siobhanmup.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social for bringing my book & sending pictures! So many brilliant publications here to go on my to-read list too. MUP also have a medieval NCS list + 30% discount! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/07...

Book table in front of Universität Freiburg sign/backdrop, including monographs by Wan-Chuan Kao, Laura Ashe, Laurie Atkinson, and Hope Doherty-Harrison.

Close-up of Love & Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance.

More books on the 'Nominated Publications' table, including issues of The Chaucer Review, Journal of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Viator, & Florilegium; monographs by Thomas C Sawyer, Patrick Outhwaite, Marcel Elias, Mary Raschko, Lee Manion, an edition by Conan M. Griffin, and edited volumes The Horizon of Medieval French and Occitan, and The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Looking forward to attending @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week! I will be a part of sessions 623 and 1720 - very grateful to the panel organisers & especially to return to DisMed post-publication of Towards An Accessible Academy!

Session 1720 from the IMC Leeds Programme, p. 393, 'Future Insight and its Discontents'.

Session 623 from the IMC Leeds Programme, p. 166, 'DisMed 8: A Round Table Discussion'.

Front cover of Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Delighted to be joining Birkbeck, University of London in September as Lecturer in Medieval Studies. On this beautiful sunny day I have been in Bloomsbury meeting new colleagues!

Photograph of one of Birkbeck's buildings in Bloomsbury with a curving road in front of it, with blue sky and leaves above.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Delighted to have a piece in New Medieval Literatures 26, and in such wonderful company!

The cover of New Medieval Literatures 26, on a wooden desk

Contents page of New Medieval Literatures 26

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Lovely news this morning - I've been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS)!

Letter from the Royal Historical Society:
20 February 2026
Dear Hope Doherty-Harrison,
I am delighted to inform you that at its last meeting on 6 February 2026, the Council elected you a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS) in recognition of your contribution to historical scholarship.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Excited to be going to #IMC2026 - missed it last year & only attended one day in 2024. Would love to meet up with friends old & new!

Details of two sessions at IMC Leeds 2026:
623 Tuesday, 7 July 2026: 11:15 AM-12:45 PM
#DisMed 8: A Round Table Discussion
Round Table Participant
Step free access, seating for panellists in view of camera and near microphone. Ground floor room or near a lift, dimmed lights in the room.
1720 Thursday, 9 July 2026: 2:15 PM-3:45 PM
'Prophecy and the Oedipal Desire of Judas: Medieval Legacies of Origen's Contra Celsum'

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

So very grateful to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, Prof Carol Richardson, @kateai.bsky.social & everyone who came to talk about my new book with me yesterday evening 💖 and a wonderful flowery surprise from @starcrossed2018.bsky.social and @liederfollower.bsky.social ! 💐

Discussing/reading from new book 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance', in a seminar format and with flowers on a table.

Hope Doherty-Harrison holding flowers and a copy of her book with a background of book cabinets at IASH, Edinburgh.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

So excited to read @starcrossed2018.bsky.social's Textile Shakespeare ✨ feeling especially lucky to recognise some of the images from Hester's wonderful teaching @stcatharines.bsky.social 💖

A copy of Textile Shakespeare, by Hester Lees-Jeffries, with more books in the background on a work desk.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

It is publication day for Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance @manchesterup.bsky.social! Thank you so much @siobhanmup.bsky.social for believing in this project. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183170/

A photo of Hope Doherty-Harrison wearing a navy blue shirt holding an author copy of her book, Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance, against a background of green trees/bushes.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Lovely picture just appeared in my inbox of me & @bryonycoombs.bsky.social with our activity 'Making Medieval Manuscripts' at #GlaSciFest back in June ✨

Bryony Coombs and Hope Doherty-Harrison wearing blue Glasgow Science Festival t-shirts and holding up parchment-style paper and quills for our public engagement/outreach activity 'Making Medieval Manuscripts'. In front of us there is a table covered in blue plastic with an ink pad, stamps (replicas of medieval illustrations), an inkwell and various manuscript art made by ourselves and participants.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Delighted to share that my second monograph, The Living Judas in Medieval Text and Image (working title), is now under contract with Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social! I am so grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk & @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social for the time & support to work on this.

A medieval illustration of a queen in bed cradling an infant child, with an attendant sat next to the bed - Judas as a baby with his adoptive mother (queen of the island Scarioth), from Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek / Gen. 8, f. 223v.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

My book, Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire, with @manchesterup.bsky.social, is coming out next month! I would be delighted if you might consider ordering a copy for your libraries 💚

Front cover for Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance, illustration from British Library MS Cotton Nero A X/2 of Lady Bertilak and Gawain in the bedchamber. Gawain is lying down with eyes closed, wrapped in green blankets, and Lady Bertilak is wearing a spotted dress, seated beside him with her hair up, her arms outstretched in a loose embrace and touching under his chin.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Had a wonderful time at #gms2025 learning about so much new & exciting work, but even better, spending time with dear friends new & old (including at the cathedral!) Special thanks to @janebonsall.bsky.social & Hannah Piercy (photos 1 & 2).

Three medievalists in a pilgrim photo stand-in board at Canterbury cathedral.

Three colleagues/friends at a conference, in a restaurant

Five tall windows at Canterbury cathedral, including a Jesse tree window from the twelfth century (left).

Salvation window, Canterbury cathedral, by Ervin Bossanyi

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

My favourite slide for my #GMS2025 talk @medievalgender.bsky.social which is a preview of my argument in Chapter 4 of Love & anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (available for pre-order now, out 2 Sept!): manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526183170/

A slide of a conference presentation about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with quoted sections (lines 1841-5, 1837-8, 644, 1818, 1827-9) and an illustration from Paris, BnF, MS Francais 9561, f.2v, showing the Virgin Mary holding a red book with a pentangle on it. The illustrations of Gawain and Lady Bertilak from the Cotton AX manuscript are cropped and facing one another as if speaking to each other at either side of the quoted text, and background from Febrian Zakaria on Unsplash, depicting a series of gold rings arranged on red fabric, dimly lit.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

It was inspiring to share medieval images & scripts with young people at Glasgow Science Festival yesterday. Featuring 3D-printed stamps designed from medieval illustrations & marginalia, made by my very talented husband Judd Harrison! & of course Bryony's wonderful quills & oak-gall ink for ARC.

Dr Bryony Coombs, Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison and Dr Judd Harrison stood behind the activity table, all wearing 'Glasgow Science Festival' light blue t-shirts. Behind them is a carriage of an old Glasgow subway train.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Making some slides today ready for #GMS2025 (a bit early but June has become v busy!) and wanting to write a whole new Thing on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a poem that is always somehow different & new on each re-reading!

First slide for a conference presentation entitled 'Secret Sacrifices: Gawain, Lady Bertilak, and Abraham', with pictures of Abraham from the Tall Cross in Monasterboice, Ireland (photograph), and Lady Bertilak with Gawain in bed from the Gawain/Pearl manuscript, London, British Library Cotton Nero A X 2, fourteenth century (from Wikimedia Commons).

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Thank you to the Glasgow Medieval & Early Modern group for having me to talk about my new work today!

A projector showing the first slide of a talk, 'Judas's Medieval Family', against a background of bookshelves.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Finished the proofs! I am yet to type up the corrections (hence the folded-over pages) but the meticulous re-reading is done. Find re-reading my own stuff v difficult, but feeling OK about it - mostly I hope it might give someone a similar experience of curiosity & discovery as I felt writing it.

A sideways view of a folder with a stack of white paper, some of which is folded over in the corners, book proofs for 'Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance'. Some gold decoration showing on the desk next to the folder.

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

My book proofs have arrived and I have printed them and put them in a folder. Full of dread at the prospect of reading it all through again, but good to be nearly finished...

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Thank you so much @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social for a brilliant evening in Rosslyn chapel on Tuesday, which I can't stop thinking about!

An intricately-carved fifteenth-century chapel ceiling, showing multiple arches over the altar.

An ornately-decorated fifteenth-century chapel interior, showing carvings on the ceiling and an unusual pillar with curved vine decoration, known as the 'apprentice pillar'.

A carved boss above the altar, showing a 'green man' (probably added, copied or restored in the nineteenth century).

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Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Delighted to share the beautiful cover for our volume, Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists, edited by Alexandra R. A. Lee, E. R. P. Champion, and me. Coming soon from @mip-medpub.bsky.social for the Premodern Transgressive Literatures series ✨

A pink and purple background with an image of a medieval manuscript in the centre, containing an illustration of a closed castle. A woman at the top of the castle looks down at a man outside the castle. A modern additional image of a ramp has been placed at the doors of the castle, extending out of the medieval border of the illustration.

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