Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
The Power of Penitence: Penitent Women and the Friars in Medieval Florence in, editor(s)Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D'Aughton and Anne-Julie Lafaye , Mendicants on the Margins, Cork, Cork University Press, 2023, [Catherine Lawless]
Homosexuality and Lesbianism in Irish Newspapers, 1861-1922 in, editor(s)Jyoti Atwal, Ciara Breathnach and Sarah-Anne Buckley , Gender History: Ireland 1850-1922, London, Routledge (India), 2023, [Catherine Lawless and Ciara Breathnach]
Clothed with her flesh: a Florentine Madonna del Cucito in, editor(s)D. O'Donovan and N. Nic Ghabhann , Mapping New Territories in Art and Architectural Histories: Essays in Honour of Roger Stalley, Turnhout, Brepols, 2021, pp315 - 326, [Catherine Lawless]
Catherine Lawless, The Power of Penitence: Penitent Women and the Friars in Medieval Florence, Mendicants on the Margins, University College Cork, 27 June 2018, 2020
'Imaging Power: Gender, Power, and Authority in Florentine Piety' in, editor(s)Thomas W. Smith , Authority and Power in the Medieval Church, c.1000-c.1500, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020, pp223 - 234, [Catherine Lawless]
Catherine Lawless, 'Make of your home a temple', Religions, 11, 2020, p1 - 21
Catherine Lawless, ''Lorenzetti, Ambrogio and Pietro'', Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, O-P, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2017, -
Catherine Lawless, Patienthood in medieval Tuscany: beliefs and cures, Medical Humanities, 42, (2), 2016, p76 - 80
Lawless, Catherine, The Holy Grandmother and 'the Fleshly Trinity', Studies, 104, (416), 2015, p433 - 443
Sexuality and depictions of the female saint in medieval Tuscan in, editor(s)Melanie L. Marshall, Linda L. Carroll, Katherine A.McIver , Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy. Playing with Boundaries, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2014, pp75 - 94, [Catherine Lawless]
Catherine Lawless, Sensing the Image: Gender, Piety and Images in Late Medieval Tuscany, Open Arts Journal, (4), 2014, p62 - 74
Catherine Lawless, , Bread and Roses: the image of St Elizabeth of Hungary as agent of female religious practice, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA, 2012, 2012
'Viva il Popolo': Civic Identity and Female Sanctity in Medieval Florence in, editor(s)Sandra Cardarelli, Emily Jane Anderson, John Richards , Art and Identity: Visual Culture and Religion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012, [Catherine Lawless]
'Representation, Religion, Gender and Space' in, editor(s)Frances Andrews , Ritual and Space in the Middle Ages, Donnington, Shaun Tyas, 2011, pp232 - 258, [Catherine Lawless]
Anthony McElligott, Ciara Breathnach, Liam Chambers, Catherine Lawless (eds), Power in History: from Medieval Ireland to the Post-Modern World, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2011
'Lover of Widows: St Jerome and Female Piety' in, editor(s)Conor Kostick , Medieval Italy, Medieval and Early Modern Women: Studies in Honour of Christine E. Meek, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, pp231 - 242, [Catherine Lawless]
Catherine Lawless, 'The Virgin's Grandmother', Journal of Medieval History, 36, 2010, p359 - 373
Ciara Breathnach, Catherine Lawless (eds),, Visual, Material and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010
'Devotion and Representation in Nineteenth-Century Ireland' in, editor(s)Ciara Breathnach, Catherine Lawless , Visual, Material and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, pp50 - 57, [Catherine Lawless]
Franco Sacchetti and 'Modern Saints', Kate Jansen, Joanna Drell, Frances Andrews, Medieval Italy: A Documentary History, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009, pp385 - 389, [Catherine Lawless]
Catherine Lawless, Myth, Ritual and Orthodoxy at San Marco: Cosimo de' Medici and His Saints, Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society, 2, (3), 2005, p274 - 299
'Widowhood was the Time of her Greatest Perfection': Sanctity, Gender and Florentine Art in, editor(s)Allison Levy , Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003, pp20 - 39, [Catherine Lawless]
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Catherine Lawless, Sin, Penitence and Virginity: Representing the Female Saint in Renaissance Italy, Centre for Early Modern Studies Research Seminar Series, University of Limerick, 5 February , 2019, Centre for Early Modern Studies
Catherine Lawless, Representation of holy bodies: space, power and gender in medieval Florence, Women, Space and Place, UCC, 16 November , 2017, Dr Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D'Aughton
Catherine Lawless, The Body, the Archive and Visual Sources, The Body and the Archive, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, 21 September, 2017, Dr Ciara Breathnach, UL
Catherine Lawless, Saint Anne in the Italian Baroque, Baroque Saints, National Gallery of Ireland, 28 March, 2015, National Gallery of Ireland
Catherine Lawless, Saintly and Other Bodies in Late Medieval Tuscany, Seminar in the Medical Humanities, Trinity Long Room Hub, 9 December , 2015, TCD Medical and Health Humanities Initiative
Catherine Lawless, Saints, sexualities and representation, January 2014, 2014, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Bristol
Catherine Lawless, Lorenzo and Giovanna, Review of Lorenzo and Giovanna. Timeless Art and Fleeting Lives in Renaissance Florence, by Gert Jan Van der Sman , Renaissance Studies, 26, (2), 2012, p312-314
Catherine Lawless, 'Lucrezia Borgia', Talking History, at Newstalk, Dublin, 2012, -
Yvonne Davis, Mary Healy, Catherine Lawless, 'Familiar Faces: Works by Influential Women Artists from the Patrick J. Murphy Collection', Bourn Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick, University of Limerick, 2008, -
Catherine Lawless, Art and Devotion, Review of Art and Devotion in Late Medieval IReland, by Rachel Moss, Colman O Clabaigh, Salvador Ryan , Irish Historical Studies, 36, (141), 2008, p105-106
Yvonne Davis, Mary Healy, Catherine Lawless, 'The Orientalist Gaze of Helen Hooker O'Malley', University of Limerick Visual Arts Collections, Irish American Cultural Collection, Bourn Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick, University of Limerick, 2007, -
Catherine Lawless, 'Pre-Raphaelite Women', RTE Lyric FM, 2007, -
Catherine Lawless, 'A Fruit for All Seasons', RTE, Lyric FM, 2005, -
Christine Meek, Catherine Lawless (eds), Victims or Viragos? Women in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2005
Catherine Lawless, 'Images, Piety and Women in Late Medieval Devotion: The Hunt Crucifixion with Saint Clare, History Studies, 6, 2005, p2 - 18
Women on the Margins: The 'Beloved' and the 'Mistress' in Renaissance Florence in, editor(s)Christine Meek, Catherine Lawless , Pawns or Players? Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2003, pp111 - 130, [Catherine Lawless]
Christine Meek, Catherine Lawless (eds), Pawns or Players? Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 3, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2003
A Widow of God? Saint Anne and Representations of Widowhood in Fifteenth-Century Florence in, editor(s)Christine Meek , Women in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2000, pp15 - 42, [Catherine Lawless]
O'Donovan, Donal, with Alan Powers and Catherine Lawless, God's Architect: A Life of Raymond McGrath, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Kilbride Books, 1995
Catherine Lawless, 'St Jerome and Female Piety in the Italian Renaissance', Conference of Irish Historians, Strand Hotel, Limerick, 2009
Edward Coleman, Catherine Lawless, Christine Meek, Medieval Italy: Travel and Movement, 2005, In:Medieval Italy: Travel and Movement
Catherine Lawless, Healing, Sanctity and Art in Medieval Italy, The patient's voice. Medical Humanities, Royal Irish Academy, 2013, 2013, The Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2013
Ciara Breathnach, Liam Chambers, Catherine Lawless, Anthony McElligott, Power in History, 2009, In:Power in History. Conference of Irish Historians, Strand Hotel, Limerick
Catherine Lawless, Gillian Kenny, Outsiders in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 2013, In:Outsiders in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
Edward Coleman, Catherine Lawless, Christine Meek, Medieval Italy, Medieval Women, In:Medieval Italy, Medieval Women, TRIARC, Trinity College Dublin
Catherine Lawless, Christine Meek, Medieval and Early Modern Women, 1998-2003, In:Medieval and Early Modern Women, Trinity College, Dublin
Catherine Lawless, Peace and Female Sanctity in Florentine Art, Peace in the Middle Ages/Pace nel Medioevo, Consiglio Regionale di Toscana, Florence, Italy, 2004
Catherine Lawless, Saints and their senses, Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, University of Nottingham, 2004
Catherine Lawless, Space, Gender and Sanctity in Medieval Florence, Harlaxton Medieval Studies Conference, Harlaxton (Notts), 2009
Catherine Lawless, The Female Saint and Identity in Renaissance Florence, Conference of the International Federation for Research into Women's History, Queens University Belfast, 2003
Ciara Breathnach, David Butler, Catherine Lawless, Angus Mitchell, Nineteenth-Century Irish Studies Annual Conference, 2008, In:Nineteenth-Century Irish Studies Annual Conference, University of Limerick
Catherine Lawless, Images of St Jerome and Late Medieval Piety, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Miami, 2007
Catherine Lawless, Sanctity, Names and Identity in Renaissance Florence, International Medieval Congress, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, 2006
Catherine Lawless, 'Age and the Female Saint', International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 2005
Research Expertise
Description
My research focuses on the role of gender and identity in Italian Medieval and Renaissance art and in particular, on the representation of the female religious body. I am interested in how bodies were represented and understood, so my research intersects with history of the body and ideas surrounding identity and embodiment. I am also interested in Catholic art of the religious revival of the nineteenth-century in Ireland and the role of women as patrons.Recognition
Awards and Honours
Book Prize for Collaborative Project by the Society of Early Modern Women
Memberships
Dublin Medieval Society
Renaissance Society of America
College Art Society
Hagiography Society
Women's History Association of Ireland
Medieval Feminist Society
Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Association of Art Historians