Dr. Catherine Lawless

• Catherine Lawless, Sensing the Image: Gender, Piety and Images in Late Medieval Tuscany, Open Arts Journal, (4), 2014, p62 - 74Journal Article, 2014, URL
• Lawless, Catherine, The Holy Grandmother and 'the Fleshly Trinity', Studies, 104, (416), 2015, p433 - 443Journal Article, 2015, URL
• Catherine Lawless, Patienthood in medieval Tuscany: beliefs and cures, Medical Humanities, 42, (2), 2016, p76 - 80Journal Article, 2016, URL
• Catherine Lawless, ''Lorenzetti, Ambrogio and Pietro'', Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, O-P, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2017, -Digital research resource production, 2017
• Catherine Lawless, , Bread and Roses: the image of St Elizabeth of Hungary as agent of female religious practice, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA, 2012, 2012Oral Presentation, 2012
• Catherine Lawless, The Power of Penitence: Penitent Women and the Friars in Medieval Florence, Mendicants on the Margins, University College Cork, 27 June 2018, 2020Conference Paper, 2020, URL
• 'Imaging Power: Gender, Power, and Authority in Florentine Piety' in, editor(s)Thomas W. Smith , Authority and Power in the Medieval Church, c.1000-c.1500, Turnhout, Brepols, 2020, pp223 - 234, [Catherine Lawless]Book Chapter, 2020
• Catherine Lawless, 'Make of your home a temple', Religions, 11, 2020, p1 - 21Journal Article, 2020, URL
• Clothed with her flesh: a Florentine Madonna del Cucito in, editor(s)D. O'Donovan and N. Nic Ghabhann , Mapping New Territories in Art and Architectural Histories: Essays in Honour of Roger Stalley, Turnhout, Brepols, 2021, pp315 - 326, [Catherine Lawless]Book Chapter, 2021, URL
• The Power of Penitence: Penitent Women and the Friars in Medieval Florence in, editor(s)Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D'Aughton and Anne-Julie Lafaye , Mendicants on the Margins, Cork, Cork University Press, 2024, pp82 - 99, [Catherine Lawless]Book Chapter, 2024, TARA - Full Text
• Homosexuality and Lesbianism in Irish Newspapers, 1861-1922 in, editor(s)Jyoti Atwal, Ciara Breathnach and Sarah-Anne Buckley , Gender History: Ireland 1850-1922, London, Routledge (India), 2023, [Catherine Lawless and Ciara Breathnach]Book Chapter, 2023, TARA - Full Text
• Vetula, Vecchia, Prophetess, Saint: the Old Woman in the Florentine Trecento in, editor(s)Judith Steinhoff , Brepols Trecento 6, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025, [Catherine Lawless]Book Chapter, 2025, TARA - Full Text
• Saintly systems of healing: images, devotion and cures in, editor(s)Robert Brennan, Fabian Jonietz and Romana Sammern , Visual arts and medicine in early modern Europe and beyond: A collection of essays and sources, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2025, pp1-14 , [Catherine Lawless]Book Chapter, 2025, TARA - Full Text
• Anthony McElligott, Ciara Breathnach, Liam Chambers, Catherine Lawless (eds), Power in History: from Medieval Ireland to the Post-Modern World, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2011Book, 2011
• Ciara Breathnach, Catherine Lawless (eds),, Visual, Material and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010Book, 2010
• 'Viva il Popolo': Civic Identity and Female Sanctity in Medieval Florence in, editor(s)Sandra Cardarelli, Emily Jane Anderson, John Richards , Art and Identity: Visual Culture and Religion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012, [Catherine Lawless]Book Chapter, 2012
• 'Representation, Religion, Gender and Space' in, editor(s)Frances Andrews , Ritual and Space in the Middle Ages, Donnington, Shaun Tyas, 2011, pp232 - 258, [Catherine Lawless]Book Chapter, 2011
• Catherine Lawless, 'The Virgin's Grandmother', Journal of Medieval History, 36, 2010, p359 - 373Journal Article, 2010
• 'Devotion and Representation in Nineteenth-Century Ireland' in, editor(s)Ciara Breathnach, Catherine Lawless , Visual, Material and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, pp50 - 57, [Catherine Lawless]Book Chapter, 2010
• 'Lover of Widows: St Jerome and Female Piety' in, editor(s)Conor Kostick , Medieval Italy, Medieval and Early Modern Women: Studies in Honour of Christine E. Meek, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, pp231 - 242, [Catherine Lawless]Book Chapter, 2010
• Franco Sacchetti and 'Modern Saints', Kate Jansen, Joanna Drell, Frances Andrews, Medieval Italy: A Documentary History, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009, pp385 - 389, [Catherine Lawless]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2009
• Catherine Lawless, Myth, Ritual and Orthodoxy at San Marco: Cosimo de' Medici and His Saints, Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society, 2, (3), 2005, p274 - 299Journal Article, 2005
• 'Widowhood was the Time of her Greatest Perfection': Sanctity, Gender and Florentine Art in, editor(s)Allison Levy , Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003, pp20 - 39, [Catherine Lawless]Book Chapter, 2003
• Sexuality and depictions of the female saint in medieval Tuscan in, editor(s)Melanie L. Marshall, Linda L. Carroll, Katherine A.McIver , Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy. Playing with Boundaries, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2014, pp75 - 94, [Catherine Lawless]Book Chapter, 2014, URL

• Catherine Lawless, Saints, sexualities and representation, January 2014, 2014, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of BristolInvited Talk
• Catherine Lawless, Saint Anne in the Italian Baroque, Baroque Saints, National Gallery of Ireland, 28 March, 2015, National Gallery of IrelandInvited Talk
• Catherine Lawless, Saintly and Other Bodies in Late Medieval Tuscany, Seminar in the Medical Humanities, Trinity Long Room Hub, 9 December , 2015, TCD Medical and Health Humanities InitiativeInvited Talk, URL
• O'Donovan, Donal, with Alan Powers and Catherine Lawless, God's Architect: A Life of Raymond McGrath, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Kilbride Books, 1995Book
• Catherine Lawless, Lorenzo and Giovanna, Review of Lorenzo and Giovanna. Timeless Art and Fleeting Lives in Renaissance Florence, by Gert Jan Van der Sman , Renaissance Studies, 26, (2), 2012, p312-314Review
• Catherine Lawless, Art and Devotion, Review of Art and Devotion in Late Medieval IReland, by Rachel Moss, Colman O Clabaigh, Salvador Ryan , Irish Historical Studies, 36, (141), 2008, p105-106Review
• Catherine Lawless, Healing, Sanctity and Art in Medieval Italy, The patient's voice. Medical Humanities, Royal Irish Academy, 2013, 2013, The Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2013Oral Presentation
• Catherine Lawless, The Body, the Archive and Visual Sources, The Body and the Archive, Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, 21 September, 2017, Dr Ciara Breathnach, ULInvited Talk
• Ciara Breathnach, Liam Chambers, Catherine Lawless, Anthony McElligott, Power in History, 2009, In:Power in History. Conference of Irish Historians, Strand Hotel, LimerickMeetings /Conferences Organised
• Edward Coleman, Catherine Lawless, Christine Meek, Medieval Italy, Medieval Women, In:Medieval Italy, Medieval Women, TRIARC, Trinity College DublinMeetings /Conferences Organised
• Ciara Breathnach, David Butler, Catherine Lawless, Angus Mitchell, Nineteenth-Century Irish Studies Annual Conference, 2008, In:Nineteenth-Century Irish Studies Annual Conference, University of LimerickMeetings /Conferences Organised
• Edward Coleman, Catherine Lawless, Christine Meek, Medieval Italy: Travel and Movement, 2005, In:Medieval Italy: Travel and MovementMeetings /Conferences Organised
• Catherine Lawless, Christine Meek, Medieval and Early Modern Women, 1998-2003, In:Medieval and Early Modern Women, Trinity College, DublinMeetings /Conferences Organised
• Catherine Lawless, Gillian Kenny, Outsiders in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 2013, In:Outsiders in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College DublinMeetings /Conferences Organised
• Catherine Lawless, 'Lucrezia Borgia', Talking History, at Newstalk, Dublin, 2012, -Broadcast
• Catherine Lawless, 'Pre-Raphaelite Women', RTE Lyric FM, 2007, -Broadcast
• Catherine Lawless, 'A Fruit for All Seasons', RTE, Lyric FM, 2005, -Broadcast
• Yvonne Davis, Mary Healy, Catherine Lawless, 'The Orientalist Gaze of Helen Hooker O'Malley', University of Limerick Visual Arts Collections, Irish American Cultural Collection, Bourn Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick, University of Limerick, 2007, -Exhibition
• Yvonne Davis, Mary Healy, Catherine Lawless, 'Familiar Faces: Works by Influential Women Artists from the Patrick J. Murphy Collection', Bourn Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick, University of Limerick, 2008, -Exhibition
• Catherine Lawless, 'St Jerome and Female Piety in the Italian Renaissance', Conference of Irish Historians, Strand Hotel, Limerick, 2009Oral Presentation
• Catherine Lawless, Images of St Jerome and Late Medieval Piety, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Miami, 2007Oral Presentation
• Catherine Lawless, Space, Gender and Sanctity in Medieval Florence, Harlaxton Medieval Studies Conference, Harlaxton (Notts), 2009Oral Presentation
• Catherine Lawless, Sanctity, Names and Identity in Renaissance Florence, International Medieval Congress, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, 2006Oral Presentation
• Catherine Lawless, 'Age and the Female Saint', International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 2005Oral Presentation
• Catherine Lawless, Peace and Female Sanctity in Florentine Art, Peace in the Middle Ages/Pace nel Medioevo, Consiglio Regionale di Toscana, Florence, Italy, 2004Oral Presentation
• Catherine Lawless, Saints and their senses, Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, University of Nottingham, 2004Oral Presentation
• Catherine Lawless, The Female Saint and Identity in Renaissance Florence, Conference of the International Federation for Research into Women's History, Queens University Belfast, 2003Oral Presentation
• Catherine Lawless, Representation of holy bodies: space, power and gender in medieval Florence, Women, Space and Place, UCC, 16 November , 2017, Dr Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D'AughtonInvited Talk
• Catherine Lawless, Sin, Penitence and Virginity: Representing the Female Saint in Renaissance Italy, Centre for Early Modern Studies Research Seminar Series, University of Limerick, 5 February , 2019, Centre for Early Modern StudiesInvited Talk
• Christine Meek, Catherine Lawless (eds), Victims or Viragos? Women in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2005Book
• Christine Meek, Catherine Lawless (eds), Pawns or Players? Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 3, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2003Book
• Catherine Lawless, 'Images, Piety and Women in Late Medieval Devotion: The Hunt Crucifixion with Saint Clare, History Studies, 6, 2005, p2 - 18Journal Article
• Women on the Margins: The 'Beloved' and the 'Mistress' in Renaissance Florence in, editor(s)Christine Meek, Catherine Lawless , Pawns or Players? Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2003, pp111 - 130, [Catherine Lawless]Book Chapter
• A Widow of God? Saint Anne and Representations of Widowhood in Fifteenth-Century Florence in, editor(s)Christine Meek , Women in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2000, pp15 - 42, [Catherine Lawless]Book Chapter

My research focuses on the role of gender and identity in Italian Medieval and Renaissance art and in particular, on the representation of the female religious body. I am interested in how bodies were represented and understood, so my research intersects with history of the body and ideas surrounding identity and embodiment. I am also interested in Catholic art of the religious revival of the nineteenth-century in Ireland and the role of women as patrons.

Other Humanities, History, Heritage and Archaeology,

• Book Prize for Collaborative Project by the Society of Early Modern Women 2003

• Dublin Medieval Society 2013
• Women's History Association of Ireland present
• Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland present
• Association of Art Historians present
• Renaissance Society of America present
• Medieval Feminist Society present
• College Art Society present
• Hagiography Society present