Dr. Rowena Archer

Biography

Rowena Archer is a medieval historian and lecturer at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. Born in Northern Ireland and partly educated in England, she holds a degree from the University of Bristol. Her research primarily focuses on the Late Medieval English Nobility and the Hundred Years War in France, particularly examining the experiences of women during this tumultuous period. She has published extensively on various aspects of women's lives, drawing significantly on the work of the late fourteenth-century Franco-Italian writer Christine de Pizan. Archer is starting a study on the impact of the Anglo-French wars on women, with a particular interest in Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt. In addition to her research, she teaches French history from 1000 to 1500 and runs a specialist course on Joan of Arc, focusing on the years 1419-1435. She has years of experience teaching mature students at Oxford and serves as the Director of the long-running Medieval Studies Programme at Cambridge International Summer Schools. Archer travels to France twice a year for both work and pleasure.

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