Sue Johns
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History
School of History and Archaeology
Bangor University
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Johns was awarded her Ph.D in 2000 at Cardiff University. She joined the School in 2007 having previously worked at the University of Huddersfield, and having had a career break, part-time at Sheffield University. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Historical Society. Her research currently focuses on the history and historiography of gender and power in the medieval period, lordship and aristocracy, and also charters and seals in the Middle Ages.
Research Interest
She also has a research interest in charters and seals in the Middle Ages, and from 2009-2012 she was co-Investigator of a major AHRC-funded research project Seals in Medieval Wales with Prof. Phillipp Schofield.
Publications
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2012 'Nest of Deheubarth: reading female power in the historiography of Wales’, in Nelson, Reynolds and Johns (ed), Gender and historiography, pp. 91-100
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2014 ‘Women and power in the Roman de Rou of Wace’, Anglo-Norman Studies, 36, 117-34
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2015 ‘Seals, gender, identity, and social status in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries in Wales’, in Susan Solway (ed.),Medieval coins and seals: constructing identity, signifying power (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 271-80
