Dr Kathryn Hurlock
Reader in Medieval History, Interim Head of the History Research Centre
My profile
Biography
Academic and professional qualifications
I gained my BA (Hons) at Royal Holloway in 2002, University of London and my PhD on Wales and the Crusades in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 2007.
Other academic service (administration and management)
Postgraduate Research Lead for History, Politics and Philosophy (May 2019-March 2022)
History Research Centre Management Committee (Sept 2019-present)
History Leadership Team (Sept 2018-present)
Faculty Research Degrees Co-ordinator for History (Jan 2019-March 2022)
Faculty Research Degrees Committee (Jan 2019-MArch 2022)
MA History Programme Leader (Sept 2018-August 2019)
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor (Sept 2012-Sept 2018)
Nations and Civilisations Research Cluster
Languages
Reading Latin, Welsh, French.
External examiner roles
Christie Majaros, ‘The Function of Hospitaller Houses in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales’, PhD Cardiff, 2016.
External Examiner at the University of Manchester for undergraduate and postgraduate Medieval history.
Expert reviewer for external funding bodies
I am a member of the AHRC Peer Review College (2017-22). I have also been a reviewer for the University of Wales Press, Palgrave MacMillan, Historical Research, Womens’ History Review, Boydell and Brewer, Routledge, Court Studies and others.
Consultancy and advisory roles
Served on the panel of advisors on the reconstruction of the medieval court of Llys Rhosyr (National Museum of Wales, St Fagan’s, Cardiff)
Other distinctions
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Gladstone Library Research Scholarship, 2020
- HLSS RKE Fellow for 2015-2016
Expert reviewer for external funding bodies
- AHRC Peer Review College Member 2017-2022
- I have also reviewed projects funded by the Marie Sklodowska Curie Innovative Training Network
Visiting and honorary positions
- Honourary Research Fellow, Cardiff University, 2008-13
Editorial Board membership
Series Co-Editor (with John D. Hosler), War and Conflict in Pre-Modern Societies, ARC Humanities Press
Member of the board for Borders, Boundaries, Landscapes, Brepols
Membership of professional associations
- Members of ANZAMEMS (Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies)
- Member of SHOW, the Society for the History of War
- Member of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
- Steering Committee Member for the Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades
- Member of the Northern Network for the Medical Humanities http://nnmh.org.uk/
- Member of the Communities of Print 1400-1600 Network https://communitiesofprint.wordpress.com/
Impact
In 2015, I contributed to the Diamond Review of Higher Education in Wales.
Teaching
Postgraduate teaching
Current Teaching:
- Case Studies in Medieval Warfare
- The Returning Soldier - Veterans’ Histories
- I also run sessions on the core Skills module on Using Archives, Latin, and Palaeography
Previous Teaching
- Britain, Ireland and the Crusades (MA taught module)
- Culture and Identity in the Medieval North (MA Taught Module)
Subject areas
Pilgrimage, medieval and modern; veterans’ histories; medieval Wales.
Supervision
I am able to offer postgraduate supervision (MA, MRes, MPhil or PhD) in the following subject areas:
- Medieval British History, c.1000-1500
- The history of pilgrimage, medieval and modern
PhD students (completed)
- Peter Johnstone, PhD by Publication, ‘The Benefit of Clergy in Medieval England and the New World’ (Director of Studies), October 2017
- Gavin Moore, ‘Lordly Power and Lordship: Earls Ranulf III and John le Scot of Chester, a case study, c.1181-1237.’
- Ian Bass, ‘The Crozier and the Cross: Crusading and the English Episcopate.’ VC Scholarship (Director of Studies)
- Jessica Purdy, ‘Reading the Reformation: The Impact of Print in the Early Modern Parish, 1580-1660.’ (1st Supervisor, Director of Studies Dr Rosamund Oates)
PhD students (in progress)
Sarah Norton (Principal Supervisor)
Katrina Ingram (Principal Supervisor)
Nathan Atherton (Principal Supervisor)
Sarah Hitchen (1st Supervisor)
Phillipa Vincent Connolly (2nd Supervisor)
Research outputs
I am an historian of medieval Britain, and on pilgrimage both medieval and modern.
I lead the network on The Returning Soldier with colleagues at Manchester Metropolitan University and elsewhere to examine the figure of the Returning Soldier from the Ancient World to the early twenty-first century. My particular interest in this lies in the impact of crusading on those who return from conflict, and the potential transformative impact of fighting a holy war. I am interested in how successful campaigns compared to those deemed failures, the impact of mental and physical injury, and the ways in which returning crusaders sought to remember, commemorate and deal with their own participation. My first article coming from this research on Geoffrey Dutton, a crusader who returned to Cheshire following the Fifth Crusade (c.1218-1222) was published in Northern History in 2017, while a second on the psychological consequences of medieval warfare will be out next year with Bloomsbury.
Our next The Returning Soldier event will be our conference on Dealing with the Dead held at Manchester Metropolitan, in June 2022.
I am also working on a history of pilgrimage to St Winefride’s Well Library. I am researching the changing activities of pilgrims to the Well over a thousand-year period, looking at how concepts of authenticity and tradition, and the performance of pilgrimage, changed during that time.
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Hurlock, K. Making Sense of War Trauma in Medieval Europe.
Hurlock, K.S., Whatley, L.J. (2022) Crusading and Ideas of the Holy Land in Medieval Britain. Brepols.
Rees, O., Hurlock, K., Crowley, J. (2022) Combat Stress in Pre-modern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.
Hurlock, K.S. (2018) Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100-1500. New York: Palgrave.
Hurlock, K., Oldfield, P. (2015) Crusading and Pilgrimage in the Norman World. Boydell Press.
Hurlock, K. (2013) Britain, Ireland and the Crusades, C.1000-1300. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
Hurlock, K. (2012) Wales and the Crusades.
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Chapters in books
Hurlock, K.S. 'Lay Piety.' The Brill Companion to Medieval Wales. BRILL,
Hurlock, K. (2023) 'History of Medicine Perspectives on Pilgrimage.' In Warfield, H.A. (ed.) Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Pilgrimage: Historical, Current, and Future Directions. Oxford: Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 101-116.
Hurlock, K., Rees, O. (2022) 'Combat Trauma in Pre-modern Europe: An Introduction.' Combat Stress in Pre-Modern Europe. Palgrave, pp. 1-14.
Hurlock, K. (2022) 'Was there Combat Trauma in the Middle Ages? The Case for Moral Injury in the Pre Modern World.' In Crowley, J., Rees, O. (ed.) Combat Stress and Pre-Modern History. Palgrave, pp. 123-150.
Hurlock, K., Rees, O., Crowley, J. (2022) 'Combat Trauma in Pre-modern Europe: An Introduction.' Mental Health in Historical Perspective. Springer International Publishing, pp. 1-14.
Hurlock, K. (2022) 'Family, faith, and Knights of the Holy Sepulchre in late and post-medieval Wales.' In Hurlock, K., Whatley, L.J. (ed.) Crusading and ideas of the Holy Land in medieval Britain. Brepols,
Hurlock, K. (2022) 'Was There Combat Trauma in the Middle Ages? A Case for Moral Injury in Pre-modern Conflict.' Mental Health in Historical Perspective. pp. 123-150.
Hurlock, K. (2021) 'Crusading rhetoric and Anglo-Irish relations, c.1300–1600.' In O'Keeffe, T., Duffy, P., Coleman, E. (ed.) Ireland and the Crusades. Dublin: Four Courts Press,
Hurlock, K. (2021) 'Reading Medieval Wales: David Powel's Historie of Cambria (1584) and its readers.' In Oates, R., Purdy, J.G. (ed.) Communities of Print: Readers and Their Books in Early Modern England, ed, Rosamund Oates and Jessica Purdy (Brepols). Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.,
Hurlock, K. (2019) 'Mental Health in the Middle Ages.' In Turner, W.J. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages. Bloomsbury,
Hurlock, K.S. (2019) 'Performing Pilgrimage in Late Medieval Wales.' In Hillman, J., Tingle, E. (ed.) Soul Travel: Christian Spiritual Journeys in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 81-81.
Hurlock, K. (2018) 'Welsh pilgrims and crusaders in the middle ages.' In Skinner, P. (ed.) The Welsh and the Medieval World: Travel, Migration and Exile. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 157-174.
Hurlock, K.S. (2015) ''The Norman influence on crusaders from England and Wales'.' In Hurlock, K., Oldfield, P. (ed.) Crusading and Pilgrimage in the Norman World. Boydell and Brewer,
Hurlock, K.S. (2015) ''Introduction', in Crusading and Pilgrimage in the Norman World.' Crusading and Pilgrimage in the Norman World. Boydell,
Hurlock, K.S., Hurlock, K. (2013) 'Pilgrimage.' In Stober, K., Burton, J. (ed.) Monastic Wales: New Approaches. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 119-131.
Hurlock, K.S. (2010) 'Norman Conquests, Norman Expansion.' The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, Volume 1.
Hurlock, K.S., Hurlock, K. (2007) 'Power, Preaching and the Crusades in Pura Wallia, c1180-1280.' In Weiler, B., Burton, J., Stober, K. (ed.) Thirteenth Century England XI. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, pp. 94-108.
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Media
Hurlock, K.S. The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry (BBC Extra Podcast).
Hurlock, K. (2020) Penrhys Pilgrimage Way - text and educational materials.
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Internet publications
Hurlock, K. (2018) Bodyguard: there are accounts of PTSD in warfare from Homer to the Middle Ages. https://theconversation.com/bodyguard-there-are-accounts-of-ptsd-in-warfare-from-homer-to-the-middle-ages-103306.
Hurlock, K.S. (2018) Bayeux and Brexit: what the tapestry says about the UK’s shared European heritage. https://theconversation.com/bayeux-and-brexit-what-the-tapestry-says-about-the-uks-shared-european-heritage-90332.
Hurlock, K.S. (2015) David Powel’s Historie of Cambria, Now Called Wales (1584). https://communitiesofprint.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/david-powels-historie-of-cambria-now-called-wales-1584/.
Hurlock, K.S. (2013) Chivalry (Oxford Bibliographies). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199791279-0032.
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Journal articles
Hurlock, K. 'The Guild of Our Lady of Ransom and Pilgrimage in England and Wales, c. 1890-1914.' British Catholic History, 35(3) pp. 316-337.
Hurlock, K. 'The Pilgrim and the Peas and Pilgrimage by Rail: defining acceptable pilgrimage practices in nineteenth-century Britain.' Cultural and Social History,
Hurlock, K. (2023) 'Army style, we marched: war and peace in the cross-carrying pilgrimages to Vezelay and Walsingham, 1946-1948.' British Catholic History, 36(4) pp. 410-430.
Hurlock, K. (2022) 'Peace, politics, and piety : Catholic pilgrimage in wartime Europe, 1939–1945.' War and Society, 41(1) pp. 36-52.
Hurlock, K.S. (2017) 'A Transformed Life? Geoffrey of Dutton, the Fifth Crusade, and the Holy Cross of Norton.' Northern History, 54(1) pp. 15-27.
Hurlock, K. (2011) 'The Crusades to 1291 in the annals of medieval Ireland.' Irish Historical Studies, 37(148) pp. 517-534.
Hurlock, K.S., Hurlock, K. (2011) 'Cheshire and the Crusades.' Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 159
Hurlock, K. (2010) 'Fourteenth Century England V.' HISTORY, 95(317) pp. 112-113.
Hurlock, K. (2009) 'CRUSADES AND CRUSADING IN THE WELSH ANNALISTIC CHRONICLES.' TRIVIUM, pp. 3-31.
Hurlock, K. (2009) 'Counselling the prince: Advice and counsel in thirteenth-century Welsh society.' History, 94(313) pp. 20-35.
Hurlock, K. (2009) 'The Welsh wife of Malcolm, earl of Fife (d.1266): An alternative suggestion.' Scottish Historical Review, 88(2) pp. 352-355.
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Non-peer reviewed articles / reviews
Hurlock, K.S. (2018) David Stephenson. Medieval Powys: Kingdom, Principality and Lordships, 1132–1293..
Hurlock, K.S. (2018) Tangled Threads of a Tightly Woven Relationship.
Hurlock, K.S. (2015) Anglo-Norman Parks in Medieval Ireland by Fiona Beglane.
Hurlock, K.S. (2015) Felicity Beard, ed., The Knights Hospitallers in Medieval Hampshire: A Calendar of the Godsfield and Baddesley Cartulary.
Press and media
Media appearances or involvement
I have written for The Conversation, and been interviewed by BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, and a number of print and online newspapers, including the Daily Mail, iNews, The Western Mail, The New European and Walesonline. I have also appeared on BBC Breakfast, and p a podcast for BBC History Magazine, and been a guest on BBC You’re Dead to Me.
In May 2018, I am speaking at the Hay Literary Festival on Wayfaring, focussing on my works on crusade and pilgrimage travel in Wales: https://www.hayfestival.com/p-14118-kathryn-hurlock.aspx