Malgorzata D’Aughton

Dr Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton is Senior Lecturer, at the School of History, University College Cork.  She studied Art History at KUL Lublin, Poland, and later obtained her MA and PhD in History from University College Cork. Since 2008 she lectured at the UCC School of History and in 2017 received the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has been involved as a researcher, collaborator and mentor in four Irish Research Council-funded projects. She has also collaborated on museum and heritage projects, and theatre and radio productions, one of which was a finalist at the 2018 New York Radio Awards.

For a full academic profile see: http://publish.ucc.ie/researchprofiles/A019/mdaughton

Books

Image and identity: Franciscan ideologies in late medieval Ireland (Brill, in preparation).

Krasnodebska-D’Aughton, A.-J. Lafaye, ed., Mendicants on the margins (Cork University Press, in preparation).

Bhreathnach, M. Krasnodebska-D’Aughton, K. Smith, ed., Monastic Europe: landscape and settlement (Brepols: Turnhout, 2019).

Papers

‘The Observant friars in Ireland: between piety, obedience and ambition’, in H. Morvan, ed., Observer l’Observance, working title) (with A.J. Lafaye, Ecole française de Rome: Rome, in preparation).

‘Spaces of movement and meditation: Franciscan choirs in Ireland’, in H. Morvan, ed., Which sources for the history of choir location in mendicant churches (13th-16th centuries)? (with A.J. Lafaye, Ecole française de Rome: Rome, 2019, in press).

‘The cross of death and the Tree of Life: Franciscan ideologies in late medieval Ireland’, in P. Turner and J. Hawkes, ed., The rood in medieval Britain and Ireland, c. 900-c.1500 (Boydell&Brewer: Martlesham, 2019).

‘Material culture of mendicant orders in medieval Ireland’, in M.M. de Cevins, ed., Marginalité, économie et christianisme. Les frères mendiants dans l’économie du sacré en Europe centrale (v. 1220 – v. 1550) (with A.J. Lafaye, Rennes University: Rennes, 2018), 119-144.

‘Prayer, penance and the Passion of Christ: The iconographic programme of the Franciscan friary at Ennis, Ireland’, Studies in Iconography, 37 (Index of Christian Art, Princeton University and Medieval Institute Publications: Kalamazoo, 2016), 75-108.

‘Relics and riches: familiarising the unknown in a fourteenth-century pilgrimage account from Ireland’, in M. Boulton, J. Hawkes and M. Herman, ed., The art, literature and material culture of the medieval world. Transition, transformation and taxonomy (Four Courts Press: Dublin, 2015), 111-124.

‘Inflamed with seraphic ardor: Franciscan learning and spirituality in the fourteenth-century Irish pilgrimage account’, Franciscan Studies, 70 (Franciscan Institute: St Bonaventure University, NY, 2012), 283-312.

‘A gemmarium for the recognition of precious stones in the Cracow, Chapter Library, MS 140: A study on the unity of exegetical themes’, in E. Mullins and D. Scully, ed., Listen, O Isles, unto me. Studies in medieval word and image in honour of Jennifer O’Reilly (Cork University Press: Cork, 2011), 47-59.

‘Me fieri fecit: Franciscan chalices 1600-1650’ and ‘Catalogue’, in R. Ó Floinn, ed., Franciscan faith: sacred art in Ireland, AD 1600-1750 (National Museum of Ireland & Wordwell:  Dublin, 2011), 71-183.

‘Franciscan chalices, 1600-1650’, in E. Bhreathnach, J. McCafferty, J. McMahon OFM, ed., The Irish Franciscans 1534-1990 (Four Courts Press: Dublin, 2009), 287-304.

‘Simon Semeonis’, in B. Leehy and S. Ryan, ed., Treasures of Irish Christianity (Veritas: Dublin, 2015), 42-45. ‘Chalices have wings’, in J. Fenwick, ed., Lost and found II (Wordwell: Dublin, 2009), 245-252.

‘Praedicationes: słowo i obraz’ / ‘Praedicationes: text and image’, in J. Urban, ed., Źródła kultury duchowej Krakowa/ The origins of Cracow’s spiritual culture, vol.2 (Archiwum i Biblioteka Krakowskiej Kapituly Katedralnej: Cracow, 2008), 78-89.

‘Piety, patrons and prints: Franciscan altar plate’, History Ireland, 16 (2008), 34-37.

‘Liber evangeliorum – St Emmeram’s Evangeliary’, ‘Praedicationes’, ‘Glossa super Leviticum’, ‘Homeliae et lectiones’, ‘Azo, Summa super novem libris Codicis et quatuor institutionum’, ‘Epistolare’, ‘Summa super titulos decretalium compilata a magistro Godfrido de Trano’, in G. Ryś, ed., Źródła kultury duchowej Krakowa/ The origins of Cracow’s spiritual culture, vol.1 (Archiwum i Biblioteka Krakowskiej Kapituly Katedralnej: Cracow, 2007), 29-35, 86-94, 129-132. 135-141, 146-149, 152-153 (7 individual papers on different manuscripts).

‘The Kells market cross and the epiphany cycle reconsidered’, Archaeology Ireland, 17 (2004),16-20.

‘A homily on the epiphany in the Catechesis Cracoviensis and the four epiphanies on Irish high crosses’, Peritia. Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland, 17-18 (Brepols: Turnhout, 2003), 471-494.

‘Icons in manuscript art: a study on Irish and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts (7th-9th centuries)’, Roczniki Humanistyczne/ Annals of the Arts, 51 (Towarzystwo Naukowe, KUL: Lublin, 2003), 265-286.

‘Illuminated manuscripts’ and ‘The Book of Kells’, in B. Lawlor, ed., The encyclopaedia of Ireland (Gill & Macmillan: Dublin, 2003), 692-693, 580.

‘Christ as the visible image of the invisible God: decoration of the In principio initials in early Insular manuscripts’, Word & Image. A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, 18 (Taylor & Francis: Abingdon, 2002), 105-122.

‘The four-symbols page in the Cracow Cathedral Library MS 140 (43): an image of unity’, Peritia. Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland, 14 (Brepols: Turnhout, 2000), 323-341.

 Unpublished survey

‘Material culture of the mendicant orders in Ireland’ (Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute, University College Dublin 2008), 540 pages, list of artefacts, many previously unknown, housed by 41 existing Irish mendicant houses.

Major research projects

Research-related public outputs

2002: Medieval Ireland exhibition, National Museum of Ireland, curatorial researcher.

2008: Franciscan faith exhibition, National Museum of Ireland, co-curator.

2015: ‘Friars walk’, historical contributor for a theatre performance, Cork Midsummer Festival.

2016: ‘Friars walk’, historical contributor and narrator on a radio series, UCC Campus Radio and RTÉ Lyric FM.

2017: ‘Christmas postcards’, historical contributor and narrator on a radio series, RTÉ Lyric FM.

2017: ‘Jerusalem passion’, historical contributor and a narrator on a radio series, RTÉ Lyric FM; finalist, 2018 New York Festivals: World’s Best Radio Programs.