Sarah Greer
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
History
University of St Andrews
United Kingdom
Biography
After completing her MA on female monasticism in sixth- to eighth-century Francia at the University of Auckland, she began her PhD in Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews in September 2013. Her research was funded by a Marie SkÅ‚owdowska-Curie Fellowship as part of the ‘Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom’ Innovative Training Network (pimic.eu). she submitted her PhD in 2016 and was fortunate enough to be awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at St Andrews working with Professor Simon MacLean on the HERA-funded research project ‘After Empire: Using and Not Using the Past in the Tenth Century’.
Research Interest
Development of royal female monasteries in Saxony from c. 852 to 1024, examining how memory was used at these sites to alter the relationships between these institutions and the rulers of their region
