Clementine Pursey

I am a second-year PhD candidate funded by the Learning Anglo-French project, working on the multilingual culture of Lacock Abbey in the fourteenth century. My research focuses on Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS Osborn a56, an Anglo-Norman compilation manuscript containing educational and religious texts. I am especially interested in connecting with other researchers working on this manuscript and welcome any correspondence on the subject. 

My broader research interests include female agency in legendary histories, pre-modern applications of criticial disability theory, and feminist psychoanalysis. 

Before I joined Exeter, I completed a BA in French and History at Aberystwyth University (2019-23), and an MLitt in Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews (2023-24). 

Previous Conference Papers:

'"eschuez flatour ki seet flater": Cultivating Thirteenth-Century Female Behaviour in Walter de Bibbesworth's Tretiz', Society for French Studies Postgraduate Conference 2025, King's College London.

'How to Use Powerful Men to Get What You Want: Female Voice and Authority in Wace's Roman de Brut and Roman de Rou', Society for French Studies Conference 2025, University of Bristol.