Kate Falardeau

PhD Candidate
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Kate holds a BA in Art History from Reed College (2019) and an MPhil in Medieval History from the University of Cambridge (2020). Kate’s MPhil was fully funded by a Sperling Studentship funded by Reed College and King’s College. They received a second Sperling Studentship for their PhD research. Their MPhil dissertation analyzed the possible relationships between liturgy, devotion, and gender in tenth-century Winchester evident in the contemporary cult of St Æthelthryth, a liturgical manuscript, and a devotional manuscript. They are currently researching manuscript copies of Bede's Martyrology and religious practice 800–1250 for a PhD in History.

Kate studies European manuscripts from 800 to 1200 with an interdisciplinary approach, with especial reference to liturgy, devotional practice, and gender.

First Year Faculty of History Transition and Induction Programme: 15 supervisions, 2 seminars

Part IA, Skills: 1 seminar on reading and note taking, 1 seminar on marking criteria and essay writing, 1 seminar on historiographical writing

Part IA, Sources, Paper 8, A medieval history and its material context: an introduction to fifteenth-century books: 4 seminars (co-taught)

Part II, Paper 1, Historical Argument and Practice: 1 seminar on ‘Gender’ (co-taught), 1 seminar on ‘Memory’ (co-taught), 1 seminar on ‘Religion’

1 thematic seminar for first year undergraduates (based on Part II, Paper I, Historical Argument and Practice), on ‘Memory’

‘The Dissemination and Reception of Bede’s Martyrology in the Beneventan Zone, 900–1250’, University of Notre Dame, 2024 Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, Early Medieval Liturgies session, 14th March 2024.

‘Reading from Bede’s Martyrology in Chapter, 800–1200’, Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute, 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Manuscripts for Reading Aloud session, 13th May 2023.

Discussant: ‘Writing History with Bede’s Martyrology, 800–1200’, Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute, 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Making History with Manuscripts roundtable, 12th May 2023.

‘Bede’s Martyrology after the Carolingians’, University of Cambridge, Medieval History Graduate Workshop, 8th February 2023.

‘Writing History with Bede’s Martyrology, 800–1200’, Stanford University, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Making History with Manuscripts in Medieval Europe publication workshop, 15th November 2022.

Phillipps MS 24275 and the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Historiography of Bede’s Martyrology’, University of London, School of Advanced Study, The International Trade in Pre-Modern Manuscripts 1890-1945 and the Making of the Middle Ages, 21st September 2022.

‘A Landscape of the Past: Monastic Memory and the Vernacular Addition to the Book of Nunnaminster’, University of Leeds, Institute for Medieval Studies, International Medieval Congress 2022 ‘Borders’, 5th July 2022. 

‘Liturgical Use of Bede’s Martyrology: The Manuscript Evidence’, University of London, School of Advanced Study, Institute of Historical Research, History of Liturgy Seminar, Martyrologies Roundtable, 6th June 2022. 

‘Manuscript Copies of Bede’s Martyrology: Dynamic, Communal Histories’, Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute, 2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Building Christian Communities session, 14th May 2022.

‘Writing history with Bede’s Martyrology, 800–1200’, University of Cambridge, Faculty of History, Graduate Research Day, 21st April 2022. 

The Manuscript Presentation and Material Afterlife of Bede’s Martyrology: A Case Study’, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 17th annual Marco Manuscript Workshop: Interventions, 4th February 2022. 

The Image of St Æthelthryth in the Benedictional of Æthelwold: Gendered History Writing in Benedictine Winchester’, University of Cambridge, Gender & Sexuality Workshop, 19th October 2021. 

‘Deciphering the Possible Use(s) of Fragmentary Copies of Bede’s Martyrology’, University of Bristol, Centre for Medieval Studies, From Fragment to Whole: Interpreting Medieval Manuscript Fragments, 17th September 2021. 

‘Gender, Space, and Communal History in Ninth- and Tenth-Century Additions to the Book of Nunnaminster’, Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute, 2021 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Christian Liturgy session, 11th May 2021.

‘The Consecration of Widows in CCCC 163’, University of Cambridge, Gender & Sexuality Workshop, 27th April 2021.

‘Gender, Space, and Communal History in Ninth- and Tenth-Century Additions to the Book of Nunnaminster’, University of Cambridge, Graduate Early Medieval Seminar, 3rd December 2020. 

‘Reliquary Image: Salvation, Enclosure, and the Book in the Frontispiece Illustration of the New Minster Liber Vitae’, University of York, Centre for Medieval Studies Graduate Conference, 23rd June 2020. 

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‘Gender, Space, and Communal History in Tenth-Century Additions to the Book of Nunnaminster’, Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies 11 (2022): 69–96, https://doi.org/10.1484/J.JMMS.5.130742

‘The Consecration of Widows in CCCC 163’, Mediaevalia 44 (2023): 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1353/mdi.2023.a913474

‘Writing History with Bede’s Martyrology, 800–1200’, in Making History with Manuscripts in Medieval Europe, edited by Johannes Junge Ruhland. Sense, Matter, and Medium. Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming.

‘Phillipps MS 24275 and the Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Historiography of Bede’s Martyrology’, in The Pre-Modern Manuscript Trade and its Consequences ca. 1890–1945, edited by Laura Cleaver, Danielle Magnusson, Hannah Morcos, and Angéline Rais. York: ARC Humanities Press, forthcoming.