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Colne Engaine: 1219 BOOK LAUNCH

by admin Posted on 1 February 2019

Colne Engaine: 1219 by Cate Gunn Book Launch

To Celebrate 800 Years of the name Colne Engaine and the first rector of St Andrews Peter de Feria

Saturday 18thMay 2019

St Andrews Church PCC cordially invite you to attend the launch of Cate Gunn’s Book Colne Engaine 1219 on Saturday 18th May 2019:

6-7pm Exhibition & Talk in St Andrews church.

7-8.30pm Complimentary Cheese & Wine with Halstead Community Choir in the village hall to celebrate the launch.

Peter de Feria in front of the church of Colne Engaine in 1219, as imagined by Nick Chapman

 

The book will be on sale in the village hall, where Cate will be available to answer questions and sign her book. There will be a raffle.  Profit from the sale of the book will be donated to St Andrews Church.

For further information and to express an interest in attending please contact Rita Prior (PCC Secretary) on 01787 223867 or ritaprior31@gmail.comfor numbers for catering purposes.

We look forward to welcoming you

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Returning home to Ilam

by admin Posted on 1 December 2016

The walk we undertook in June – all 250 miles of it – was circular: while not describing a perfect circle, we ended up in Settle where we had started three weeks previously. In August we joined my brother and his family in Dovedale for a much shorter walk that nevertheless completed a large circle; we were bringing the remains of my mother back to the place where she had been born nearly ninety years before. (more…)

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Teaching

by admin Posted on 16 September 2012

I start teaching at the University of Essex again this autumn – classes on Close Reading and Early Modern Literature.

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Cate’s CV

by admin Posted on 16 September 2012

Catherine (Cate) Elizabeth Gunn

 

Author of Ancrene Wisse: From Pastoral Literature to Vernacular Spirituality

Co-editor of Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care

An experienced, enthusiastic and committed teacher

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About Cate

by admin Posted on 16 September 2012

Cate Gunn graduated from Southampton University in 2004 with a Ph.D. in medieval literature; her thesis was on the early 13th century English guide for anchoresses, Ancrene Wisse.  Her book,  Ancrene Wisse: From Pastoral Literature to Vernacular Spirituality, published in 2008 has been described as ‘the best introduction to Ancrene Wisse so far’.

Cate taught in continuing education for many years and is now teaching part-time in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex.

 

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