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Professor Emeritus Meg Twycross
Professor Emeritus of English Medieval Studies
Department: English and Creative Writing
Research Interests
Professor Meg Twycross is co-editor of the journal Medieval English Theatre and its associated publications, and has published widely on medieval theatre. Her book, written With Dr Sarah Carpenter of Edinburgh University, on Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England (Ashgate, 2002) won the 2004 David Bevington Award for the best book in Early Drama Studies. In March 2001 she was presented with a festschrift in her honour entitled Porci ante Margaritam.
In 1993/94 she worked on a pilot for the York Doomsday Project with a grant of £13,000 from Lancaster University's Institute for Innovation in Higher Education. Since then the Project has attracted the co-operation of the British Library and major research funding, and is breaking new ground in research both into the contexts of the York Mystery Plays and of the use of computers in Humanities research and teaching. Currently she is immersed in the use of computers in Humanities research: see e.g. the AHRC ICT Methods Network Expert Seminars and the Sheffield-led e-Science workshops on the use of the Access Grid for research collaboration. Her latest investigation applies forensic document-examination and virtual-restoration techniques to high-resolution digital scans of the 1415 York Ordo paginarum. She has managed to retrieve writing which was scraped out and overwritten in the 1510s and even earlier (see Medieval English Theatre vol. 25). She is also involved, with Hilary Hinds and Alison Findlay, in the project on Early Quakers in the North West whose website will be online in the near future.
She also specialises in medieval iconography and in the meticulous research recreation of medieval performance conditions, and organised two pageant-waggon sequences along part of the original route of the York Mystery Plays for the York festivals of 1988 and 1992. Her videos made with Lancaster University Television are used widely for teaching.
Her research into the origins of 'true processional' staging also involves investigating the pictorial and archival evidence of pageant waggons and theatrical processions in the Southern Low Countries, especially Leuven in Belgium.
Meg Twycross has an MA, B.Litt, and Cert Ed from the University of Oxford, where she was College Lecturer at Worcester College and St Edmund Hall before coming to Lancaster in 1974.
Associated Keywords: Archives, Early Quakers, English, George Fox, Humanities computing, Manuscripts, Medieval theatre, Palaeography, Performance, Processions, Theatre, Virtual restoration, York mystery plays
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Lancaster University
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