Whitehead Christiania

Whitehead Christiania

Presentation

Christiania Whitehead specialises in religious literature of the Middle Ages, in particular, mystical and devotional writing, hagiography, allegory and lyric poetry. She is the author of Castles of the Mind: A Study of Medieval Architectural Allegory (2003), and The Afterlife of St Cuthbert: Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690-1500 (2020), and has published a critical edition of the Middle English devotional text The Doctrine of the Hert (2010), with Denis Renevey and Anne Mouron. She has also co-edited five volumes of essays, most recently Middle English Lyrics: New Readings of Short Poems (2018) with Julia Boffey. A sixth collection is forthcoming in 2022: Late Medieval Devotion to Saints from the North of England: New Directions, with Hazel Blair and Denis Renevey.

Christiania is currently Senior Researcher on the FNS project ‘Reconfiguring the Apophatic Tradition in Late Medieval England’ (2022-26).