Lucia Akard
Associate Lecturer in Medieval British History (c.1300-c.1500)
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Doctor, DPhil.
Lucia Akard is a historian of gendered violence and sexuality in the late Middles Ages. Her first monograph, Victims and Survivors of Rape in the Late Middle Ages, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Her current research explores communities of sex workers in Dijon in the fifteenth century. She has published on consent to sex in marriage in Studies in the Age of Chaucer and on the state of medieval sex work studies in The English Historical Review. She has previously held the position of College Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Oriel College, Oxford.
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Dr
Lucia
Akard
Vanbrugh College V/N/216
Department of History
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD
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