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Amy Jeffs


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Amy Jeffs is an art historian specialising in the Middle Ages. In 2019, she gained a PhD in Art History from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having studied for earlier degrees at the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Cambridge. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

During her PhD Amy co-convened a project researching medieval badges and pilgrim souvenirs at the British Museum. She then worked in the British Library's department of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern manuscripts.

Her writing is often accompanied by her own linocut and wood-engraved prints.

Amy is a regular contributor to Country Life Magazine.
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“Learning, debating and growing, we will tell each other stories into the night. Our lives will encircle the sun: setting and rising, setting and rising.”
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“Myths hold the echo of collective emotion, whatever they reveal of events.”
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“They worshiped the golden idols and they feared no invasion. For who would disinherit the devil?”
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