Dr Elizabeth L`Estrange

Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies
University of Birmingham
B15 2TT, UK
[email protected]
+44 (0)7816 755 632
DR ELIZABETH L’ESTRANGE
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
1999-2004
PhD, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
En/Gendering Representations of Childbirth in 15th C Franco-Flemish Devotional Manuscripts
1998-99
MA (with distinction) in Medieval Studies
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
1993-97
BA (Hons) II.i, English Language and Literature (European), School of English
University of Leeds (with Erasmus year in Liège, Belgium)
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Sept 2011-
Lecturer in History of Art, Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies,
University of Birmingham
April 2011July 2011
Boursière, Fondation Darchis (Liège), to conduct personal research in Rome
Jan 2011April 2011
Assistante, English Department and Research and Development, University of Liège
Seminar teaching, personal research, and translation
Oct 2010Nov 2010
Lectrice, English Department, University of Liège
Seminar teaching and personal research (maternity cover)
Feb 2007 Sept 2010
Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History, Fonds national de la recherche scientifique
University of Liège
Oct 2006Jan 2007
Lectrice, English Department, University of Liège
Seminar teaching, lecturing and personal research
Feb 2006June 2006
English Language Teacher, Institut supérieur des langues vivantes,
University of Liège
March 2004Feb 2006
Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Fellow,
Research into Books of Hours at the University of Liège
Sept 2001June 2003
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
University of Leeds
RESEARCH FUNDING AND PRIZES
April 2013
Apr-Jul 2011
April 2010
Jan 2007
July 2006
June 2006
March 2006
2004-2006
1998-2003
British Academy Neil Ker Memorial Fund award for Anne de Graville’s Library (£1200)
Grant from the Fondation Darchis for three months’ research in Rome (€5100)
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship First Book Prize for Holy Motherhood
Post-doctoral Fellowship, FNRS, University of Liège
Scouloudi Foundation Publication Grant (£500), IHR, London
Book Subvention Programme ($2,500), Medieval Academy of America
Weiss/Brown Publication Subvention ($4,000), Newberry Library, Chicago
Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Fellow (Study Abroad scheme)
Annie Redman-King (MA) and University Research (PhD) Scholarships, University of Leeds
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PUBLICATIONS
Current projects
Readers, Writers and Reformers: Anne de Graville and the Shaping of Cultural Patronage in Sixteenth-Century
France – monograph project for submission to Boydell and Brewer’s Gallica series
‘Reassessing Bell’s “Medieval Women Book Owners” Thirty Years On’ – project to be launched 2017
Books and Edited Collections
Co-editor, with Jonathan Dumont, Samuel Mareel, and Michael Depreter, Marie de Bourgogne: Actes du
colloque, Bruxelles, 4-7 mars 2015 (forthcoming 2017 with Brepols)
Co-editor, with Laure Fagnart, Le mécénat féminin en France et en Bourgogne, XIV-XVIe, special issue of the
peer-reviewed journal Le Moyen Âge, 117 (2011)
Co-editor, with Alison More, Representing Genders and Sexualities in Europe, 600–1530: Construction,
Transformation, and Subversion (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011)
Holy Motherhood: Gender, Dynasty, and Visual Culture in the Later Middle Ages (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 2008; paperback edition, 2012)
 A double-weighted submission for the 2014 Research Exercise Framework (UK Universities)
 Winner of the 2010 Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship First Book Prize
Book Chapters and Journal Articles
‘Un étrange moyen de seduction: Anne de Graville’s Chaldean Histories and her Role in Literary Culture at the
French Court in the Early Sixteenth Century’, Renaissance Studies (forthcoming, 2016), DOI: 10.1111/rest.12170
‘Beyond the 1520s: A Bellemare Workshop Manuscript in Liège (MS Wittert 29)’, in Re-inventing Traditions: On
the Transmission of Artistic Patterns in Late Medieval Manuscript Illumination, ed. by J. C. Heyder and C. Seidel
(Peter Lang, 2015), pp. 189-208
‘Re-Presenting Emilia in the Context of the querelle des femmes: Text and Image in Anne de Graville’s Beau
Roman’, in Text/Image Relations in Late Medieval French and Burgundian Culture (14th C-16th C), ed. by R.
Brown-Grant and R. Dixon (Turnhout: Brepols, 2015), pp. 187-207
Co-author, with R. Dressler, M. Bleeke, J. Borland and M. Easton, ‘Artistic Representations: Women in/and
Medieval Visual Culture’, in A Cultural History of Women in the Medieval Era, ed. by K. M. Phillips (London: Berg,
2013), pp. 179-271
‘Introduction’, Le mécénat féminin en France et en Bourgogne, XIV-XVIe, special issue of the peer-reviewed
journal Le Moyen Âge, 117 (2011), 468-74
‘Topsy-Turvy Gender Relations in Fifteenth-Century Italian Households’, in Representing Genders and Sexualities
in Europe, 600–1530: Construction, Transformation, and Subversion, ed. by A. More and E. L’Estrange (Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2011), pp. 127-44
‘“Quant femme enfante…”: remèdes et charmes pour l’accouchement au Moyen Âge’, in Femmes en Fleurs:
Santé, Sexualité et Génération du Moyen Âge aux Lumières, ed. by C. McClive and N. Pellegrin (St-Étienne:
Presse Universitaire de St-Étienne, 2010), pp. 167-83
‘Penitence, Motherhood and Passion Devotion: Contextualising Anne of Brittany’s Prayer Book, Chicago,
Newberry Library, MS 83’, The Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de Bretagne: Negotiating Convention in
Books & Documents, ed. by C. Brown (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2010), pp. 81-98
‘Gazing at Gawain: Reconsidering Tournaments, Courtly Love, and the Lady Who Looks’, Medieval Feminist
Forum, 42 (2009), 74-96
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‘Images de maternité sainte dans deux livres d’heures appartenant aux duchesses de Bretagne’, in Livres et
lectures des femmes: Entre moyen âge et renaissance, ed. by A.-M. Legaré (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 35-47
‘Sainte Anne et le mécénat d’Anne de France’, in Patronnes et mécènes en France à la Renaissance, ed. by K.
Wilson-Chevalier (St-Étienne: Presse Universitaire de St-Étienne, 2007), pp. 135-54
‘Le mécénat d’Anne de Bretagne’, in Patronnes et mécènes en France à la Renaissance, ed. by K. WilsonChevalier (St-Étienne: Presse Universitaire de St-Étienne, 2007), pp. 169-94
‘Anna peperit Mariam, Elizabeth Johannem, Maria Christum: Images of Childbirth in Late-Medieval Manuscripts’,
in Manuscripts in Transition: Recycling Manuscripts, Texts and Images, ed. by B. Dekeyzer and J. Van der Stock
(Leuven: Peeters, 2005), pp. 335-46
Reviews
Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe 1350-1550: Packaging, Presentation and Consumption, ed. by
Emma Cayley and Susan Powell (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013), Cahiers de recherches
médiévales et humanistes (forthcoming)
‘From ‘Pregnant’ to ‘Melancholic’: The Many Guises of Mary Magdalene in Late Medieval Northern Art’,
Penny Howell Jolly, Picturing the “Pregnant” Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550: Addressing and
Undressing the Sinner-Saint (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014), Oxford Art Journal (forthcoming)
From Minor to Major: The Minor Arts in Medieval Art History, ed. by Colum Hourihane (Princeton: Index of
Christian Art, 2012), Journal of Art Historiography, 11 (2014), available online
https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/lestrange-review.pdf
David S. Areford, The Viewer and the Printed Image in Late Medieval Europe (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010),
Material Religion, 8 (2012), 113
Cynthia J. Brown, The Queen’s Library: Image Making at the Court of Anne of Brittany, 1477-1514
(Philadelphia and Oxford: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), H-France, 11 (2011), no. 230
Virginia Reinburg, French Books of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600, (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2012), Renaissance Quarterly, 66 (2013), 309-11
Diane E. Booton, Manuscript, Market and the Tradition to Print in Late Medieval Brittany (Aldershot:
Asghate, 2010), Bulletin du Bibliophile 2013-1, 127-29
Allison Levy, Re-Membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence: Widowed Bodies, Mourning and
Portraiture (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), Medieval Feminist Forum, 45 (2009), 198-201
Paula M. Rieder, On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100-1500 (New York and
Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), Medieval Feminist Forum, 43 (2007), 73-76
‘Patronage, Devotion and Gender Roles in Burgundian Art: Andrea Pearson, Envisioning Gender in
Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530: Experience, Authority, Resistance (Aldershot: Asghate, 2005) and
Women of Distinction: Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria, ed. Dagmar Eichberger (Leuven: Brepols,
2005)’, Art History, 31 (2008), 117-22
CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
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5-7 March 2015, Marie de Bourgogne: The Reign, the ‘Persona’ and the Legacy of a European Princess’,
Brussels and Bruges (organised in collaboration with colleagues at the Universities of Liège, Ghent and
Brussels)
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10 May 2010, co-organiser: Reconsidering Women’s Patronage in France and Burgundy, 15th-16th
Centuries, a one-day international conference (University of Liège); proceedings published in Le Moyen
Age (see publications)
SELECTED CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS
February 2016, with Cécile Oger, ‘Un manuscrit de l’entourage de Noël Bellemare sous le microscope:
analyse du MS Wittert 29 de l’Université de Liège’, François Ier et les artistes du nord, IRPA-KIK, Brussels
May 2014, ‘Le « livre d’amour » d’Anne de Graville : Les Histoires Chaldéenes de Bérose’, Au parler que
m’aprist ma mere: Lire et écrire le français à la fin du Moyen Age, Les Enluminures/INHA, Paris
February 2014, ‘Regards croisés sur l’allaitement: des textes aux images à la fin du moyen âge’ for the
Research Group Pour une histoire de l'allaitement maternel, Université de Genève
October 2013, ‘La Théséide de Boccace et le Beau roman d’Anne de Graville’, Boccace et la France, Paris-III:
Sorbonne-Nouvelle
July 2013, ‘“Translaté de vieil langaige et prose en nouveau et rime”: Anne de Graville’s Beau roman and
Rewriting Boccaccio for the French Court’, Locating Boccacio in 2013, Manchester
April 2013, ‘Bellifontaine Frames: The Decoration of Fontainebleau and Sixteenth-Century Manuscript
Illumination’, Renaissance Society of America, San Diego
June 2012, ‘Beyond the 1520s: A Bellemare Manuscript in Liège (MS Wittert 29)?’, Re-inventing Traditions:
On the Transmission of Artistic Patterns in Illuminated Manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages, Berlin
January 2012, ‘Reflections on Text/Image or Image/Text’, British Academy-funded research network TextImage Relations in Late Medieval French Culture, Leeds
July 2011, ‘Writing, Depicting and Performing Chivalry and Romance at the Court of Claude of France’,
International Medieval Congress, Leeds
July 2011, Round Table Workshop as part of British Academy-funded research network Text-Image Relations
in Late Medieval French Culture, Leeds
January 2011, ‘Books of Hours at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century: Problematizing the Shift from Medieval
to Early Modern’, British Academy-funded research network Text-Image Relations in Late Medieval French
Culture, Leeds
September 2010, ‘Les manuscrits et le mécénat des reines à la cour française: goût et dévotion’, L’Art
pictural à l’aube de la Renaissance, Les Enluminures/INHA, Paris
April 2010, ‘The Hours of Anne de Montmorency in Context: Iconography and Interpretation’, Renaissance
Society of America, Venice
July 2009, ‘The Tournament Tapestry at Valenciennes: Depicting (or Not) Historical Events at the Burgundian
Court’, Biography and Late Medieval French Studies, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
May 2009, ‘Religious Devotion in the Patronage of Anne of Brittany’, Sixteenth Century Society Conference,
Geneva
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
I have completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (FLTHE) (July 2013)
I currently convene, deliver and assess the following modules at Birmingham:
 Ideas of the Renaissance (level 1, 10 credits)
 Power, Society, Politics: Religious Art in Northern Europe (level 2, 20 credits)
 Research Techniques in the History of Art (level 2, 10 credits, co-taught elements)
 Women and Artistic Culture in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Europe (level 3 & MA, 20 credits)
 Turning the Pages: Manuscript and Print, Past and Present (level 3 & MA, 20 credits)
 The Dissertation (supervision of c. 6 final-year single and joint honours students, 40/20 credits)
I contribute to the delivery and assessment of the following modules at Birmingham:
 Methods and Debates in the History of Art (level 1, 20 credits)
 Critical Methods in the History of Art (MA level, 20 credits)
 Approaches to Medieval Studies (MA level, 20 credits)
 Art History in the Field (level 2 study trip to a European city, 10 credits)
I have also taught and assessed the following courses in previous posts:
 French Court Art, 1480-1560 (MA, Liège)
 British Cultural History, 1066-present (BA Level 2, Liège)
 Renaissances and Reformations: Sacred Art in Italy, c. 1400-1600 (BA level 2, Leeds)
 A Story of Art? Introduction to the History of Art (level 1, Leeds)
 Introduction to English Literary Texts (level 1, Liège)
 English conversation and grammar classes (levels 1 and 2, Liège)
ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES
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Admissions Tutor, Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies
- organising Open Days, Applicant Visit Days, Year 13 Taster Days; liaising with marketing and careers
departments; dealing with admissions and transfer enquiries; implementing and engaging in
activities to raise the profile of the department
Website, Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies
- setting up and maintaining departmental Facebook page and departmental blog (The Golovine) in
collaboration with UG and PG students; updating news items and liaising with web-team to enhance
online visibility
Welfare Officer, Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies
- support for some 60 undergraduate students, liaising with student support services
Personal Tutor, Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies
- Progress reviews three times a year and on-going support for a three-year cohort
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
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Editorial board, Renaissance Studies
Editorial Assistant, Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes (2013-15)
External peer reviewing for Manchester University Press, Boydell and Brewer, Ashgate
Invited speaker, Wallace Collection Art History Master Class for year 12 and 13 pupils considering a
degree in History of Art (Sept 2012/2013)
Art History Speed Workshops, a campus/community activity organised at the Barber Institute of Fine
Arts, University of Birmingham (March 2013, December 2013, March 2014)
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ADDITIONAL SKILLS
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English mother tongue
Fluent French
Intermediate Italian
Basic Dutch and German
Reading knowledge of Latin
Palaeography and codicology skills
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