Cynthia Turner Camp

Cynthia Turner Camp specializes in late medieval literature and medieval religious culture. Her current research centers on English books of hours and the way that prayer and poetry, Latin and English, visual and written effects are mutually constitutive in these ubiquitous but always unique prayerbooks. Further research topics include late medieval saints' lives; community identity construction, including local and national identities; the literature and culture of late medieval monasticism; medieval historiography and understandings of time; medieval literature after Chaucer; and manuscript studies. Teaching interests also include women's literary culture and the devotional literature of the laity; she also teaches the Hargrett Hours Project courses. In 2012 she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of London's Institute for English Studies. Her monograph, Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives and the Writing of History in Late Medieval England (Boydell and Brewer 2015), examines the interplay of Middle English saints' lives and historical consciousness.