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Catherine Hanley
Catherine Hanley (born 1972) is a writer and researcher specialising in the Middle Ages. Biography Hanley was born in Perth, Western Australia. She gained a degree and a PhD at the University of Sheffield and was a postdoctoral researcher there on the ''Partonopeus de Blois'' project. While working as an academic she published a number of articles on medieval warfare and its portrayal in contemporary narrative literature; she also wrote ''War and Combat 1150-1270: The Evidence from Old French Literature'' which was published by Boydell and Brewer in 2003. She was as a contributor to the ''Oxford Encyclopaedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology'' (Oxford University Press, 2010). After leaving academia she started to write historical fiction, and is the author of a series of historical mystery, medieval murder mystery novels featuring Edwin Weaver as the central character. The novels are set against the backdrop of the baronial war in the early 13th century, when the nobles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of the metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River, upon which the city's central business district and port of Fremantle are situated. Perth is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people, where Aboriginal Australians have lived for at least 45,000 years. Captain James Stirling founded Perth in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. It was named after the city of Perth in Scotland, due to the influence of Stirling's patron Sir George Murray, who had connections with the area. It gained ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
