Lucia Akard
Associate Lecturer in Medieval British History (c.1300-c.1500)

Profile

Biography

Doctor, DPhil.

Lucia Akard is a historian of gendered violence and sexuality in the late Middles Ages. Her first monograph, Victims and Survivors of Rape in the Late Middle Ages, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Her current research explores communities of sex workers in Dijon in the fifteenth century. She has published on consent to sex in marriage in Studies in the Age of Chaucer and on the state of medieval sex work studies in The English Historical Review. She has previously held the position of College Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Oriel College, Oxford.

Research

Overview

Current research project: Sex Workers and Community in Dijon, 1400-1500.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Reading and Writing in Medieval England
• Arguments and Analysis 
• Evidence and Methods
• Work
• Extraordinary Lives: The Medieval Worlds of Princes, Monks and Unconventional Women

Publications

Full publications list

Monograph

Victims and Survivors of Rape in Late Medieval France and Burgundy, under contract, Oxford Historical Monographs series, Oxford University Press, forthcoming. 

Edited Collections 

Introduction and Editor with Alice Raw, “Medieval Consent: A Critical Issue,” special issue in journal Medieval Feminist Forum, forthcoming. 

Articles

“Medieval Sex Work: a State of the Field,” in The English Historical Review, 139, issue 596, (February 2024): 181–192.

“Unequal Power and Sexual Consent: The Case of Cassotte la Joye” in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 44, no. 1 (2022): 285-292. 

“Futures of Medieval Consent,” with Alice Raw, in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 44, no. 1 (2022): 363-367.

Public Engagement Articles 

“Community Resistance to Rape in the Late Middle Ages,” commissioned by the Sundial, digital publication of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, forthcoming. 

“A Medieval #MeToo,” The Public Medievalist, October 2018.

Book Reviews

Review of Trauma in Medieval Society, eds. Wendy J. Turner and Christina Lee, in The English Historical Review, 135, no 575, (2020): 990-992.