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Dr. Justine Trombley serves as a Lecturer in European History (1300-1500) within the Department of History at Durham University and is affiliated with the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
Her academic foundation includes a PhD from the University of St Andrews (2014), followed by prestigious fellowships: a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Toronto's Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (2016-2017) and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Nottingham (2018-2022).
Specializing in late medieval religious culture, Trombley's research centers on heresy and inquisition dynamics, particularly the condemnation and reception of heretical texts like The Mirror of Simple Souls. Her work examines how medieval authorities suppressed banned literature while simultaneously tracing unexpected pathways of textual survival and reinterpretation. This approach reveals the complex interplay between institutional censorship and organic cultural transmission in pre-modern Europe.
Analysis of her publications shows sustained focus on textual condemnation procedures, manuscript transmission networks, and gendered dimensions of heresy. Her scholarship consistently bridges literary analysis, legal history, and religious studies to reconstruct medieval intellectual landscapes.
Key honors include:
- Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2016-2017)
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2018-2022)
Her Leverhulme Fellowship directly supported research culminating in her monograph A Diabolical Voice (Cornell UP, 2023). While no formal advisees are listed in available records, her lecturer role involves supervising undergraduate and postgraduate historical research at Durham. Current projects expand her investigation of condemned texts into procedural frameworks of medieval censorship across thirteenth to fifteenth-century Europe.
