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Katharine Sykes examines a new type of household to emerge in early medieval England: the monastic household. Reproducing through education and training, rather than biological means, monastic households introduce new ideas of spiritual, non-biological reproduction to their royal and secular counterparts.
Katharine Sykes is Associate Professor in Early Medieval History at the University of Birmingham. She studied Modern History (Oxford) and Medieval Studies (York), before completing a DPhil in Medieval History at Oxford. She held a series of research and teaching posts, including the John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellowship in Medieval History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, before joining the University of Birmingham in 2016.