Margaret Twycross

Margaret "Meg" A. Twycross FSA is a historian specialising in Medieval theatre and iconography. She is Emeritus Professor at Lancaster University.[1]

Margaret Twycross

FSA
Occupation
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
  • Medieval history
  • Medieval theatre
Institutions

Career

Twycross worked as the College Lecturer at both Worcester College, Oxford and St Edmund Hall, Oxford before, in 1974, moving to Lancaster University where she remained for the rest of her academic career.[1] She is the executive editor of the journal Medieval English Theatre.[2]

Her 2002 book Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England won the 2004 Bevington Award for Best New Book from the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society.[3] She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 11 November 2014.[4]

Select publications
  • Twycross, M.A. 2007. "Medieval Theatre: Codes and Genres", in The Blackwell Companion to Medieval Literature and Culture. Blackwell.
  • Twycross, M.A. 2006. "The Theatre", in The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture. Blackwell.
  • Twycross, M.A. 2005. "Forget the 4.30 am Start: Recovering a Palimpsest in the York Ordo Paginarum", Medieval English Theatre 25, 98-152.
  • Twycross, M.A., Jones, M., and Fletcher, A.J. 2002. "'Fart prike in cule' : the pictures," Medieval English Theatre 23, 100–121.
  • Twycross, M.A. and Carpenter, S. 2002. Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England. Ashgate.
  • Twycross, M.A. 1999. "Medieval stage design.", in The dictionary of art. New York, Grove.
  • Twycross, M.A. 1999. "Teaching palaeography on the web", Literary and Linguistic Computing 14(2), 257–284.

References
  1. "Meg Twycross". Lancaster University. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  2. "Editorial Board". Medieval English Theatre journal. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  3. "2004 Bevington Award for Best New Book". Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  4. "Prof Margaret Twycross". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 24 July 2020.


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