Chloe is a current PhD student between the University of Kent and King’s College London, working on the ‘Saints and Scholars’ project with the Leverhulme-funded Knowledge Orders before Modernity programme.
Previously she has studied at the University of Exeter, where she completed both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. She graduated with a First-Class degree with Honours in History and Ancient History, and an advanced linguistic proficiency profile in French, in 2023, and then went on to finish her MA in Medieval Studies in 2024.
Chloe is supervised by Dr Anne Alwis (University of Kent) and Dr James Corke-Webster (King’s College London).
Chloe’s research revolves around the literary output surrounding saints, in particular hagiography (Saints’ Lives), ranging from the Late Antique period, through the Early Medieval, and into the Middling Medieval centuries (a span of roughly eight to ten centuries). Her thesis explores how these lives might have provided a unique tool for cultural communication, transmission, and interaction across Europe. In turn, this also coincided with changing scholarly and monastic practices of storytelling, which might be traced through the texts. By exploring both the original hagiographical texts, including the manuscripts that bear witness to them, and the movement and subsequent translation of those stories, we can further our understanding of the complexities of medieval cross-cultural relationships.
Other than all the different areas of study to do with the cult of saints, Chloe is interested more broadly in ancient and medieval languages, palaeography, Early Christianity, and lived European religions.