Alicia Smith
DPhil Candidate
The Queen's College
Supervisor: Dr Annie Sutherland
Research Interests: Medieval devotional culture; anchorites and hermits; prayer; hagiography; medievalism; the Inklings; T. S. Eliot
Doctoral Research: My doctoral project aims to construct a thorough account of the ideals and practices of prayer in an anchoritic context in high medieval England, and to analyse how this informed the envisioned role of the vocation within the Church universal.
