Katy Cubitt

Katy Cubitt joined UEA in 2017, and is Professor Medieval History.  She previously worked at the University of York (1995-2016), and has held posts at the universities of Birmingham, Leeds and University College London.  Her research interests span the early medieval world, from the seventh-century Mediterranean and the papacy to England before the Conquest.  She has published widely on the Anglo-Saxon church, and is currently involved in the Leverhulme-funded network, ‘Reconceptualising Reform 900-1150: Conceptualising Change in Medieval Religious Institutions’.  She is currently a member of the Royal Historical Society Council (2013-2017), President of the Norfolk and Norwich Historical Association, and a former REF panellist.

Professor Cubitt’s research and teaching interests include:

• Early Medieval Britain, especially Anglo-Saxon England
• Papacy in the early Middle Ages
• The religious and cultural history of early medieval Europe

She would welcome applications from students wishing to work on these topics.

Katy’s research focuses on the religious culture of early medieval Europe, particularly on the history of the Anglo-Saxon church and the history of church councils.  She has published on bishops and clergy, saints’ cults and papal and Anglo-Saxon church councils, and has a particular interest in the history of the early medieval papacy and of the Mediterranean world in the seventh century.  Interdisciplinarity lies at the heart of her research, bringing together liturgy, literature and history, for example in the history of penitential ritual.  Recent interests include the political role of penance in the reign of Æthelred the Unready and apocalypticism in the writings of Ælfric and Wulfstan

She is currently finishing a monograph on penance in Anglo-Saxon England from 900-1066, entitled Sin and Society in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century.

Katy is a member of the Leverhulme-funded international research network, Rethinking Reform 900-1150  http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/125213/research/3008/rethinking_reform_900-1150

and a former member of the AHRC network, CLASMA

http://www.clasma.org.uk