Dr. Joanna Bellis

Biography

Joanna Bellis is a medievalist and early modernist specializing in historical writing, focusing primarily on the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. She is the author of 'Hundred Years War Literature, 1337-1600' (Cambridge: Brewer, 2016) and has contributed significantly as an editor on works such as 'John Page's Siege Rouen' and 'Representing War Violence, 1250 – 1600'. Bellis's research explores the ethical and political framing of historical narratives, particularly concerning the Hundred Years War and the perceptions of contemporary narrators during the Tudor period. She has discovered and edited lesser-known texts, such as John Page's verse narrative of Henry V’s siege of Rouen, presenting unique insights into medieval historiography. Additionally, she has begun work on an edition of works attributed to Osbern Bokenham and is currently pursuing a book on the concept of eyewitness accounts in medieval history.

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