Raphaela Rohrhofer

https://oxford.academia.edu/RaphaelaRohrhofer

Research Interests: Building on a background in late medieval literature, manuscript studies, and art history, I specialise in contemplative and devotional writing, texts of religious instruction, and the relationship between the visual and the verbal in manuscripts of the later Middle Ages.

Supervisor: Professor Vincent Gillespie

Doctoral Research: My doctorate, which is fully funded by the AHRC and Scatcherd Scholarship, explores the increase of the wound of love and the dialectical forces of love and dread in late-medieval contemplative literature in Middle English and Latin in England. These two forces operate in constant movement, and their negotiation is simultaneously the basis for any tropological change and the catalyst for the most complex apexes of contemplative indwelling.