Laura Slater
Biographic Data
| ID | 4785937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Slater |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Slater |
| SIGNATURE | SLATER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3627-3417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Seeing the Music in the Psalter of Queen Philippa
This article explores the interaction between text, image, and music in London, British Library, MS Harley 2899 (the Psalter of Queen Philippa), made ca. 1340. Securely connected by heraldic evidence to the ownership of Queen Philippa of Hainault (ca. 1310–69), wife of Edward III of England, this otherwise conventional psalter illuminated with Davidic images ad verbum contains over eighty notated antiphons. I suggest that the specific antiphons i…
Rumour and reputation management in fourteenth-century England
The extraordinary political actions of Queen Isabella of France between 1325 and 1330 provoked intense public discussion, partly as a result of deliberate efforts made by the queen, her allies and her opponents to influence public opinion through the dissemination of defamatory rumours. This essay explores the role of art and architecture in this process, discussing stained glass, manuscript illuminations and satirical protest badges. Analysis of…
Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World
The contexts for the works of eleventh and twelfth-century historians are here brought to the fore. History was a subject popular with authors and readers in the Anglo-Norman world. The volume and richness of historical writing in the lands controlled by the kings of England, particularly from the twelfth century, has long attracted the attention of historians and literary scholars, whilst editions of works by such writers as Orderic Vitalis, Joh…
Recreating the Judean Hills? English hermits and the Holy Land
This article explores the place of the Holy Land in the devotions of medieval English hermits and recluses between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. It first outlines the importance of physical travel to Palestine in the career of anchorites, with pilgrimage to Jerusalem followed by seclusion held up as a powerful ideal in literary sources. It then suggests that some of the dwellings of English solitaries formed deliberate monumental recreat…
Lessons in Leadership and Liturgy in the Winchcombe Psalter
Visual illustration of the Psalms in devotional manuscripts could play a key role in guiding English responses to the Psalms. This paper examines the unusual illustrations added to a combined New Testament and Psalter made for the Benedictine abbey of Winchcombe c.1130–40, now Dublin, Trinity College MS 53. I first consider its depiction of the royal ancestry of Christ and then explore its illustrations to Psalm 1. I argue that these images, disp…
Defining Queenship at Greyfriars London, c .1300–58
Visual Reflections on History and Kingship in the Medieval English Great Church
The images of royalty set up on the western face of the choir-screen or pulpitum of medieval English great churches formed an enduring iconographic tradition which was found across England and was apparently without continental parallel. Discussing in detail the remains of the choir-screen at Salisbury cathedral and the records of the screen at Durham cathedral, this article suggests their potential antecedents in 12th-century representations of …
The Oxford University Expedition to British Guiana
Rumour and reputation management in fourteenth-century England
The extraordinary political actions of Queen Isabella of France between 1325 and 1330 provoked intense public discussion, partly as a result of deliberate efforts made by the queen, her allies and her opponents to influence public opinion through the dissemination of defamatory rumours. This essay explores the role of art and architecture in this process, discussing stained glass, manuscript illuminations and satirical protest badges. Analysis of…
Defining Queenship at Greyfriars London, c .1300–58
The Oxford University Expedition to British Guiana
Visual Reflections on History and Kingship in the Medieval English Great Church
The images of royalty set up on the western face of the choir-screen or pulpitum of medieval English great churches formed an enduring iconographic tradition which was found across England and was apparently without continental parallel. Discussing in detail the remains of the choir-screen at Salisbury cathedral and the records of the screen at Durham cathedral, this article suggests their potential antecedents in 12th-century representations of …
Defining Queenship at Greyfriars London, c .1300–58
Recreating the Judean Hills? English hermits and the Holy Land
This article explores the place of the Holy Land in the devotions of medieval English hermits and recluses between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. It first outlines the importance of physical travel to Palestine in the career of anchorites, with pilgrimage to Jerusalem followed by seclusion held up as a powerful ideal in literary sources. It then suggests that some of the dwellings of English solitaries formed deliberate monumental recreat…
Lessons in Leadership and Liturgy in the Winchcombe Psalter
Visual illustration of the Psalms in devotional manuscripts could play a key role in guiding English responses to the Psalms. This paper examines the unusual illustrations added to a combined New Testament and Psalter made for the Benedictine abbey of Winchcombe c.1130–40, now Dublin, Trinity College MS 53. I first consider its depiction of the royal ancestry of Christ and then explore its illustrations to Psalm 1. I argue that these images, disp…
Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World
The contexts for the works of eleventh and twelfth-century historians are here brought to the fore. History was a subject popular with authors and readers in the Anglo-Norman world. The volume and richness of historical writing in the lands controlled by the kings of England, particularly from the twelfth century, has long attracted the attention of historians and literary scholars, whilst editions of works by such writers as Orderic Vitalis, Joh…
Rumour and reputation management in fourteenth-century England
The extraordinary political actions of Queen Isabella of France between 1325 and 1330 provoked intense public discussion, partly as a result of deliberate efforts made by the queen, her allies and her opponents to influence public opinion through the dissemination of defamatory rumours. This essay explores the role of art and architecture in this process, discussing stained glass, manuscript illuminations and satirical protest badges. Analysis of…
Seeing the Music in the Psalter of Queen Philippa
This article explores the interaction between text, image, and music in London, British Library, MS Harley 2899 (the Psalter of Queen Philippa), made ca. 1340. Securely connected by heraldic evidence to the ownership of Queen Philippa of Hainault (ca. 1310–69), wife of Edward III of England, this otherwise conventional psalter illuminated with Davidic images ad verbum contains over eighty notated antiphons. I suggest that the specific antiphons i…
History (5 works) · Medieval Literature and History (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (3 works) · Classics (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (2 works) · Law (2 works)