Published works
Book
How to Build a King: Medieval Education, Martial Arts, and the Shaping of the Royal Body, Boydell & Brewer (forthcoming)
PhD Thesis
Shaping the Self and the Royal Body in Giles of Rome's De regimine principum, Birkbeck, 2024
MA Dissertation
The Representation of Buckler-use in Fourteenth-century England, Birkbeck, 2018
Talks
2025
"How Real is Too Real? Public History and the Interpretation of Medieval Martial Arts", Interdisciplinary Seminar on Medievalism, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London.
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"Sensitive Medieval Bodies", Cardiff University.
2024
"The Cyborg King: Incorporation of Weapons, Animals, and Humans into Regal Bodies", International Medieval Congress, Leeds.​​
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“Weapons as Sensory Media”, Birkbeck Medieval Seminar.
2023
"Wrestling with Pedagogy: a kinaesthetic perspective on the education of medieval princes." The Senses: Present Issues, Past Perspectives, Congressi Stefano Franscini Workshop, Monte Verità.
"Bodies, Swords, and Words: the academic and physical education of medieval princes." Social History Society Conference, University of Essex.
“Disputatio and the Proprioceptive and Vestibular Senses” Senses, Emotions, and Experience in the History of Education, History of Education Society, University of Sheffield.
“Fencing as a recreational practice in Early Modern London.” Eastgate House, Rochester, Box Office Bears.
2021
“The Medieval Senses in Practice”, Birkbeck Graduate Seminar, Birkbeck and International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds.
2020
Convenor, “Fighting Bodies/Martial Minds: Exploring a Noble Habitus Through Martial Arts”, Birkbeck Arts Week.
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“The Senses and Giles of Rome’s De regmine principum.” Haskins Society Conference.
2019
“Applying History at the Tower”, Tower of London, Public History Sessions, Past Pleasures.
2018
“Fencing in Early Modern Theatres”, The Curtain Rises: Diverse Histories at the Curtain Playhouse, Museum of London Archaeology (Site of the Curtain Theatre Excavation).
“The Point at Length: The reception of the rapier in Early Modern London”, Spitalfields Market Event, Museum of London Archaeology.