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Saintly Immobility, the Gouged-Out Eye, and the Severed Breast: The Metamorphosis of St Lucy in Early Iberian Art and Literature (2024)
Journal Article
Beresford, A. (2024). Saintly Immobility, the Gouged-Out Eye, and the Severed Breast: The Metamorphosis of St Lucy in Early Iberian Art and Literature. Revista de poética medieval, 38, 25-56. https://doi.org/10.37536/rpm.2024.38.1.103334

This article focuses on the representation of Saint Lucia in early Iberian art and literature, considering the extent to which its identity is subject to evolutionary procedures. In some works of art, Lucia is characterized as the saint who could not... Read More about Saintly Immobility, the Gouged-Out Eye, and the Severed Breast: The Metamorphosis of St Lucy in Early Iberian Art and Literature.

Identity, Remembrance and the Question of Queer Becoming: Juana de la Cruz’s Sermon on the Legend of St Bartholomew (2023)
Journal Article
Beresford, A. M. (2023). Identity, Remembrance and the Question of Queer Becoming: Juana de la Cruz’s Sermon on the Legend of St Bartholomew. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14753820.2023.2229170

The sermon that Juana de la Cruz (1481–1534) devoted to St Bartholomew offers an insight into her deep-seated and longstanding attachment to the saint as well as the transcendence of traditional boundaries and categories. Flaying, appraised as a meta... Read More about Identity, Remembrance and the Question of Queer Becoming: Juana de la Cruz’s Sermon on the Legend of St Bartholomew.

Designing for Audience Engagement Exploring the Use of Online Metrics in the GLAM Sector (2023)
Journal Article
Charlesworth, E., Warwick, C., Impett, L., & Beresford, A. M. (2023). Designing for Audience Engagement Exploring the Use of Online Metrics in the GLAM Sector. magazén: International Journal for Digital and Public Humanities, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2023/07/005

Many heritage and cultural professionals have emphasised the ability of online content to reach beyond museums’ traditional audiences, yet one of the largest surveys to date shows no significant change in the demographic breakdown of online and on-si... Read More about Designing for Audience Engagement Exploring the Use of Online Metrics in the GLAM Sector.

Understanding levels of online participation in the U.K. museum sector (2023)
Journal Article
Charlesworth, E., Beresford, A. M., Warwick, C., & Impett, L. (2023). Understanding levels of online participation in the U.K. museum sector. Museum Management and Curatorship, https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2023.2188478

COVID-19 has undeniably affected museums’ online content, yet attempts to identify or understand sector trends have been hampered by a lack of data. This paper uses a representative sample of 315 U.K. museums to create a much-needed benchmark against... Read More about Understanding levels of online participation in the U.K. museum sector.

From Mystical Asceticism to Heresy and Heterodoxy: Rereading St Antony in Late Medieval Spain (2020)
Journal Article
Beresford, A. M. (2020). From Mystical Asceticism to Heresy and Heterodoxy: Rereading St Antony in Late Medieval Spain. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 96(10), 1079-1112. https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2019.65

This article examines the malleability of hagiographic identity, commenting on the representation of St Antony in the two most influential early sources of his life, the Vita Antonii and the Apophthegmata Patrum, drawing on sources that had for many... Read More about From Mystical Asceticism to Heresy and Heterodoxy: Rereading St Antony in Late Medieval Spain.

Aesthetic Appreciation and Spanish Art: Insights from Eye-Tracking (2019)
Journal Article
Bailey-Ross, C., Beresford, A., Smith, D., & Warwick, C. (2019). Aesthetic Appreciation and Spanish Art: Insights from Eye-Tracking. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 34(Supplement 1), i17-i35. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz027

Eye-tracking—the process of capturing and measuring human eye movement—is becoming an increasingly prevalent tool in the cultural heritage sector to understand visual processing and audience behaviours. Yet, most applications to date have focused on... Read More about Aesthetic Appreciation and Spanish Art: Insights from Eye-Tracking.

On the Sources and Contexts of Late Medieval Castilian Devotional Practice: Pain and Popular Piety in Gómez Manrique’s Representación del Nacimiento de Nuestro Señor (2018)
Book Chapter
Beresford, A. M. (2018). On the Sources and Contexts of Late Medieval Castilian Devotional Practice: Pain and Popular Piety in Gómez Manrique’s Representación del Nacimiento de Nuestro Señor. In A. M. Beresford, & L. K. Twomey (Eds.), Christ, Mary, and the Saints: Reading Religious Subjects in Medieval and Renaissance Spain (151-186). (66). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004380127_007

Christ, Mary and the Saints: Reading Religious Subjects in Medieval and Renaissance Spain (2018)
Book
Beresford, A. M., & Twomey, L. K. (Eds.). (2018). Christ, Mary and the Saints: Reading Religious Subjects in Medieval and Renaissance Spain. Brill Academic Publishers

The last decade has witnessed a striking upsurge of interest in Iberian hagiography. In painting and the fine arts through to poetic and narrative treatments composed in Castilian and Catalan, the legacies of Christ, Mary, and the saints have been ap... Read More about Christ, Mary and the Saints: Reading Religious Subjects in Medieval and Renaissance Spain.

Reading Religious Subjects (2018)
Book Chapter
Beresford, A. M., & Twomey, L. K. (2018). Reading Religious Subjects. In A. M. Beresford, & L. K. Twomey (Eds.), Christ, Mary and the Saints: Reading Religious Subjects in Medieval and Renaissance Spain (3-35). (66). Brill Academic Publishers

Composición poética y las fuentes del «Cançoner sagrat de vides de sants»: sobre la construcción de la santidad en las «Cobles fetes en laor del gloriós sent Berthomeu» (2017)
Journal Article
Beresford, A. M. (2017). Composición poética y las fuentes del «Cançoner sagrat de vides de sants»: sobre la construcción de la santidad en las «Cobles fetes en laor del gloriós sent Berthomeu». Studia Aurea, 11, 179-203. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/studiaaurea.253

El Cançoner sagrat de vides de sants compuesto por el notario valenciano Miquel Ortigues ofrece una visión única de la poética de la devoción personal en la España tardomedieval. Caracterizado por Raymond Foulché-Delbosc (1912) como obra de un mero v... Read More about Composición poética y las fuentes del «Cançoner sagrat de vides de sants»: sobre la construcción de la santidad en las «Cobles fetes en laor del gloriós sent Berthomeu».

From Scopophilia to Abjection: Vision and Blindness in the Monja que se arrancó los ojos (2016)
Journal Article
Beresford, A. (2016). From Scopophilia to Abjection: Vision and Blindness in the Monja que se arrancó los ojos. Miríada hispánica, 12, 111-127

The brief untitled exemplum preserved uniquely in MS 77 of the Biblioteca Menéndez Pelayo and generally known as the Monja que se arrancó los ojos, tells the tale of a nun who, rather than submit to the lechery of a king, opts instead to mutilate her... Read More about From Scopophilia to Abjection: Vision and Blindness in the Monja que se arrancó los ojos.

Postcolonial Theory and the Traditional Castilian Lyric: The Morenita as Epidermal Stereotype (2015)
Journal Article
Epidermal Stereotype. Hispanic Research Journal, 16(6), 471-488. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682737.2015.1129833

his article is the revised text of the twenty-fifth Kate Elder Lecture, delivered at Queen Mary University of London, on 27 March 2014. This lecture series com-memorates the life of Kate Elder, who died while a student at Westfield College, and is ge... Read More about Postcolonial Theory and the Traditional Castilian Lyric: The Morenita as Epidermal Stereotype.

Torture, Identity, and the Corporeality of Female Sanctity: The Body as Locus of Meaning in the Legend of St Margaret of Antioch (2015)
Journal Article
Beresford, A. M. (2015). Torture, Identity, and the Corporeality of Female Sanctity: The Body as Locus of Meaning in the Legend of St Margaret of Antioch. Medievalia, 18(2), 179-210

The legend of St Margaret of Antioch problematizes a range of conceptions of selfhood, particularly the relationship between the body and identity, by constantly blurring the dialectical clarity of the opposition between self and other, between inter... Read More about Torture, Identity, and the Corporeality of Female Sanctity: The Body as Locus of Meaning in the Legend of St Margaret of Antioch.

Auckland Castle: Zurbarán’s Jacob and his Twelve Sons (2014)
Book Chapter
Beresford, A. M., & Baron, C. (2014). Auckland Castle: Zurbarán’s Jacob and his Twelve Sons. In C. Baron, & A. M. Beresford (Eds.), Spanish Art in County Durham (26-43). Bishop Auckland: Auckland Castle Trust, The Bowes Museum, & Durham University

Spanish Art in County Durham (2014)
Book
Beresford, A. M., & Baron, C. (Eds.). (2014). Spanish Art in County Durham. Bishop Auckland: Auckland Castle, Bowes Museum, and Durham University