Courtnay Konshuh
Positions
Assistant Professor
Contact information
Background
Educational Background
Ph.D. Medieval History, University of Winchester, 2014
M.A. History, Medieval language and literature, University of Tübingen, 2006
B.A. History, Philosophy, McGill University, 2002
Biography
Dr. Courtnay Konshuh is accepting inquiries for supervising Masters and Doctorate students. She is especially interested in supervising topics on how the past is depicted in contemporary sources. How do historians construct recent events and local identities? How is power created through history-writing? She is also interested in working with numismatics and material culture alongside written sources to create a fuller picture of the early medieval period.
Research
Areas of Research
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| HTST 220 | Medieval Culture: Objects, Landscapes and Texts | Winter 2025 |
| HTST 320 | Early Medieval Europe | Winter 2024 |
| HTST 418 | The Vikings | Fall 2024 |
| HTST 546 | Formation Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms | Winter 2025 |
| HTST 420 | Early Medieval England | Fall 2025 |
| HTST 641 | Early Medieval Ethnogenesis | Fall 2024 |
Publications
- "Fighting with a lytle werode: a Ninth-Century Formula in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle". The Medieval Chronicle X. 95-117. (2016)
- "Anraed in their Unraed: The Æthelredian Annals (983-1016) and their Presentation of King and Advisors". English Studies 97.2. 140-62. (2016)
- "Chronicle Compilation and West-Saxon Succession". The Age of Alfred: rethinking English literary culture c.850-950. (2024)
- "The Renaissance Marriage Game: A Simulation Game for Large Classes". with Frank Klaassen. Teaching the Middle Ages through Modern Games. 155-173. (2022)
- "Documentary Evidence for the Medway Valley". The Romano-British Villa and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Eccles, Kent, ed. N Stoodley. 212-227. (2021)
- "Constructing Early Anglo-Saxon Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles". The Land of the English Kin. 154–179. (2020)
- "Edward the Elder’s Burghal Policy and Ideology in West Saxon Overlordship of Britain". Language, Culture and Society Ed. Roberts, Jane and Volodarskaya, Emma . 242-259. (2018)
- "Alfred the Great Penny". Emotions3D. (2017)
- "Chronicles of the Conquered". with Ryan Lavelle. History Today Oct 2016. 14-20. (2016)
- "Magna Carta descriptions and transcriptions: SAL60 and SAL544". Society of Antiquaries London. (2015)
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