Fiona Knight
PhD candidate in Medieval History
Fiona completed her undergraduate degree in History at Edinburgh, in 2019. There she developed an interest in medieval masculinities, with her later MPhil thesis at Cambridge concerning masculinity and pious foodways in late medieval England. Her current PhD project is supervised by Carl Watkins, and centres around emotions and patient-practitioner relationships in late medieval England.
• English pastoral literature
• Depictions of medicine in religious texts
• Passion narratives and depictions of the Passion
• Diet and food as social performance
• The materiality of the hospital experience
• Relative conceptions of illness and health
• Masculine competition within the medical field
• Depictions of medicine in religious texts
• Passion narratives and depictions of the Passion
• Diet and food as social performance
• The materiality of the hospital experience
• Relative conceptions of illness and health
• Masculine competition within the medical field
Early Science and Medicine (HPS, Part II Paper I)
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flk27@cam.ac.uk
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