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In Conversation: Janina Ramirez
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Simpkins Lee Theatre
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All are welcome to join LMH Principal Professor Christine Gerrard for an 'In Conversation' with medieval art historian and author Janina Ramirez. The event is free to attend, but we highly recommend reserving your space via the booking form below.
Dr Janina Ramirez is Research Fellow in History of Art at HMC, a cultural historian, lecturer, writer (Sunday Times bestselling author), and has worked on several documentaries for the BBC (the acclaimed 'Raiders of the Lost Past' series, ‘Saints & Sinners: Britain’s Millennium of Monasteries’, ‘Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings’ and ‘Chivalry & Betrayal: The Hundred Years War’.). She specialises in interpreting symbols, medieval art, and examining visual culture in an interdisciplinary manner. Her enthralling publications include The Private Lives of the Saints. Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England (WH Allen, 2015), Femina. A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written out of It (WH Allen, 2022 and Sunday Times bestseller), and Legenda. The Real Women Behind the Myths That Shaped Europe (WH Allen, 2025). She has also written a series of children's novels and non-fiction, including Goddesses in collaboration with the British Museum.
About Janina Ramirez
Following a degree in English Language and Literature at St Anne’s College, Oxford, where she studied with Professor Vincent Gillespie, Nina completed her Masters and PhD at the Centre for Medieval Studies in York on the Symbolic Life of Birds in Anglo-Saxon England.
Janina has taught at York, Warwick and Winchester Universities, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and was Course Director for the Undergraduate Certificate and Diploma in History of Art at the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University.
She has published extensively, including monographs on The Private Lives of Saints, Julian of Norwich and Beowulf. Her book Femina (WH Allen, 2022) was an instant Sunday Times bestseller and was longlisted for the Cundill History Prize.
She is consultant on the York University/St Paul's Cathedral three-year AHRC-funded Pantheons project, is a patron of many organisations, including NSEAD, the Stained Glass Society and Oxford Festival of the Arts.
Her passion for communicating ideas about the past is palpable in every media she uses to do so, and her enthusiasm highly contagious.