Contact details

Lecturer

Email: L.A.Coote@hull.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 1482 465834

Office: Larkin building, Room 228 (L228)

Profile

Dr Lesley Coote is a lecturer in medieval studies, medievalism and early modern studies.  She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organisation (MEMO), the Studies in Medievalism group, and the International Association of Robin Hood Scholars.  She is a member of the University of Hull’s Marvell Centre, and of two editorial boards for Brepols publishers’ series: Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, and Medieval Identities in Socio-Cultural Spaces (MiscS), of which she is Chair.  She regularly acts as a reviewer and reader for a variety of journals, including Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, Review of English Studies, Arthuriana, Modern Language Review, Journal of Gender Studies and the BUFVC’s Viewfinder magazine. Pubishers for whom she has acted as a reader/reviewer include Brepols, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, and Manchester University Press.

She is a member of the advisory board of the online review journal, Medievally Speaking, to which she is also a contributor.

Selected Publications

‘Journeys to the Edge: Self-Identity, Salvation and Outlaw(ed) Space’, in Stephen Knight, ed., Robin Hood in the Greenwood Stood: Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition (Turnhout: Brepols, this has passed the proof stage, and is due for publication any time now - 2011) 36-53

 ‘Mouvance, Greenwood and Gender in The Adventures of Robin Hood and Robin Hood: Prince f Thieves’ , in Stephen Knight, ed., Robin Hood in the Greenwood Stood: Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition (Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2011), 117-133 (?) 50% with Dr Brian Levy , his contribution reworked by L Coote from remaining notes, with her own additions

 ‘A Short Essay about NeoMedievalism’ in Studies in Medievalism XIX: Defining Neomedievalism(s), ed. Karl Utz (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2010), 25-33

‘The Art of Arthurian Cinema’, in A Companion to Arthurian Literature, ed. Helen Fulton (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), 511-524

‘Genealogical Rolls and Charts’, in Encyclopaedia of the Medieval Chronicle, ed. R.G.Dunphy (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010), 672-677. (50% with Professor Joan Holladay):

 ‘Knights on Film’ in Knights in History and Legend, ed. C. Brittain Bouchard (Lane Love NSW: Global Publishing, 2009), 260-267: 

‘Prophecy, Genealogy and History in Medieval English Political Discourse’, in Broken Lines: Genealogical Literature in Medieval Britain and France, eds. R. L. Radulescu and E. Donald Kennedy (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008): 27-44

‘Toward Criteria for Creative Assessment in the English Honours Degree Program’, Pedagogy vol. 7 (2007), 544-555 – with Fiona Wright (research assistant)’

Laughing at Monsters in Richard Coeur de Lyon’, Grant Risée?: The Medieval Comic Presence.  Essays in Memory of Brian J. Levy, ed. A. P. Tudor and A. Hindley(Turnhout: Brepols, 2006):  pp.193-211 

‘The Subversion of Medievalism in Lancelot du Lac and Monty Python and the Holy Grail’, Studies in Medievalism XIII (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2006), 99-126 (50% with Dr Brian Levy):

‘Chaucer and the Visual Image: Learning, Teaching, Assessing’,  in Teaching Chaucer, ed. Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 139-152

‘The Crusading Bishop: Henry Despenser and his Manuscript’, Prophecy, Apocalypse and the Day of Doom, Harlaxton Medieval Studies XII, ed. Nigel Morgan (Donington: Shaun Tyas 2004), 39-51:

‘The Middle Ages go to the Movies’: Medieval Texts, Medievalism and E-learning’  Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 10, 25-49, with Dr Brian Levy, University of Hull (2003)

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, ed., with notes, glossary and introductions, by

Lesley A. Coote (Wordsworth, Ware, 2002):

(2011 under revision as an academic textbook)

 ‘A Letter from Babylon: Henry VI and the Sultan of Syria’, Al-Masaq, Vol. 14, (March 2002): 17-24: 

Prophecy and Public Affairs in Later Medieval England (York Medieval Press, 2000)

(currently being prepared as an e-book)

‘Richard, Son of Richard: Political Prophecy and Richard III’, Historical Research (October 2000), 321-30, 50% with Dr Tim Thornton, University of Huddersfield:

‘Merlin, Erceldoune and Nixon: A Vernacular Tradition of Political Prophecy’, New Medieval Literatures 4, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000), 117-37, 50% with Dr Tim Thornton, University of Huddersfield:

‘A Language of Power: Prophecy and Public Affairs in Later Medieval England’, in Prophecy: The Power of Inspired Language in History 1300-2000 (Stroud, 1997), ed. B. Taithe and T. Thornton, 17-30:

Research

Dr Coote’s research work is concentrated in the related fields of medieval studies and neo/medievalism.  It frequently crosses boundaries between them.  She specialises in medieval prophecy/moralia/miscellanea, romance, political literature and ‘outlaw’ studies.  Her other specialist field covers the epistemologies of medievalism and neo-medievalism, in film, new media, literature and the image.

She has published a book on political prophecy in later medieval England, and an edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, which she is currently revising for a new edition.  Her other published work includes articles on Arthurian and other ‘medieval’ film, theories of neo-medievalism, political prophecy in the later Middle Ages, crusader romances, Robin Hood on film, medieval forests and outlawed space, and violence against the body in medieval and  neo-medieval culture.

In addition to her writing, Dr Coote makes regular appearances at conferences, congresses and symposia, where she has spoken on a variety of subjects, such as outlaws in medieval and modern culture, prophecy in the Middle Ages, Vikings on film, prophecy and genealogy, theories of medievalism and film, crusade films, the medieval image, and various pedagogical subjects relating to medieval studies and IT, and creative forms of assessment in medieval and  neo-medieval studies.

Dr Coote is currently writing a book on the relationship of modern to medieval cultural perceptions, and planning a new, edited, volume on medieval outlaws.

Teaching

Dr Coote teaches undergraduate modules on Geoffrey Chaucer, the neo-medieval narrative, fifteenth-century literature, culture and its sources, the literature and culture of chivalry and romance, and on poetry and prose from Rochester to Pope.

She teaches postgraduate modules on death and the devil in medieval and neo-medieval culture, and on the cultural transformations of the medieval world.

Her PhD students are currently studying suffering in medieval romance, the epistemology of the Saracen in medieval romance, the cultural manifestations of Morgan le Fay, and the cultural development of avatars, shape-shifters and golems. 

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