The University of Western Australia

Dr Claire McIlroy

Honorary Research Fellow
Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Contact details

Address

Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
The University of Western Australia (M208)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 3858

Fax

6488 1069

Email

claire.mcilroy@uwa.edu.au

Key research

Fourteenth-century English mystics

Middle English devotional literature

History of religious solitude

Medieval rhetoric

Gender identity in literature

Publications

Books
The English Prose Treatises of Richard Rolle, (Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2004)

Articles
'Only the Lonely: The Solitary Life in Richard Rolle's The Form of Living and Julian of Norwich's A Vision Shewed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love' in Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History. Vol. 13 No. 2, Winter 2007, pp.29-40.

An Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500 (Greenwood Press, 2000):
'Walter Hilton' pp. 225-226
'Heinrich Suso' pp. 452-454

Reviews
'Language, Self and Love: Hermeneutics in the Writings of Richard Rolle and the Commentaries on the Song of Songs'. Denis Renevey. Cardiff, University of Wales Press, 2001 in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 22.1 (2005).

'Richard Rolle: Emendatio Vitae; Orationes ad honorem nominis Ihesu'. Ed. Nicholas Watson. Centre for Medieval Studies: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1995 in Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 15.1 (1997).

'Venus & Mars: Engendering Love and War in Medieval and Early Modern Europe'. Eds. P. C. Maddern and A. Lynch. University of Western Australia Press, 1995 in Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies. Vol. 2 (1996).

Funding received

Australian Academy of Humanities Publication Grant 2004

Current external positions

Coordinator & Research Fellow: ARC Network for Early European Research
Conference Manager: CARMEN (Co-operative for the Advancement of Research through a Medieval European Network)
Series Editor: Early European Research, 1200-1650 (Brepols Publishers Series)
Editorial Committee: Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Committee Member: Perth Medieval & Renaissance Group (PMRG)
Member: ANZAMEMS

Research profile

Research profile and publications