Current research students include:
History and Cultures
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Frances Durkin, Crusade preachers: Identities and impact (PhD, part-time, 2009– )
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Patrick Haines, The medieval regulars and their libraries: St Augustine’s, Canterbury, and the Abbey of St Mary of the Meadows, Leicester (MPhil, 2010– )
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Bernadette McCooey, Farming practices in medieval Iceland (PhD, 2011– )
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Michael Rush, Cultural transition and the origins of the kingdom of the East Angles (PhD, 2008– )
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Carol Southworth, Pluralism and stability in the close: The canons of Lichfield Cathedral in the last quarter of the fifteenth century (MPhil, part-time, 2007– )
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Michael Tivey, ‘Ideology’ in the pontificate of Gregory VII (MPhil, 2010– )
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Sheila Waddington, Herefordshire: A study of its late Anglo-Saxon institutions and their British origins (PhD, 2009– )
Ancient History, Classics and Archaeology (AHCA)
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Stacey Blake, Admiration or competition: Byzantine visual culture in western European courts (497–1204) (PhD, 2010– )
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Eve Davies, From womb to the tomb: The Byzantine life course, 6th–12th century (PhD, 2008– )
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Rebecca Day, Trade and contact between the late Roman – early Byzantine empire and south India and Sri Lanka (PhD, 2009– )
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Ruth Driver, Temple conversion and cultural, ritual and topographic memory in Alexandria, Cyrene and Carthage (MPhil, part-time, 2008– )
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Julia Galliker, Byzantine textile production (PhD, 2008– )
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Andriani Georgiou, The Empress and Saint Helena as a symbol in Byzantium: Text and image between the fourth and fifteenth centuries (PhD, 2008– )
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Peter Jancar, The middle Byzantine aristocracy (PhD, 2008– )
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Ioanna Koukouni, Capitanea Valiso, Castrum Dicti Loci: Military architecture on north Chios island, 10th–16thcenturies (PhD, 2007– )
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Christos Malatras, Byzantine society in the fourteenth century (PhD, 2009– )
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Phil Murgatroyd, The road to Manzikert: Agent-based modelling in medieval military logistics (PhD, 2007– )
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Seyit Őzkutlu, Emporium of the east: Famagusta and its harbour from 1211 to 1607 (PhD, 2010– )
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Daniel Reynolds, The impact of Islamic expansion on Byzantine monasticism and pilgrimage in the ‘Holy Land’, 650–950 C.E. (PhD, 2009– )
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Mike Saxby, Remilitarising the Byzantine imperial image: A comparative analysis of evidence from numismatic and other media, 963–1461 (PhD, part-time, 2009– )
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Roger Sharp, The outside image: A comparative study of external architectural display of middle Byzantine structures on the Black Sea littoral (PhD, part-time, 2001– )
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Frouke Schrijver, The early Palaiologan court, 1261–1354 (PhD, 2008– )
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Kyle Sinclair, Byzantine war-writing, c.900–1204 (PhD, 2008– )
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Emma Southon, The early medieval family, c.300–c.800 (PhD, 2008– )
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Elisavet Tzavella, The urban and rural landscape in early and middle Byzantine Attica, Greece (PhD, 2007– )
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Carlo Virgilio, Florence, Byzantium and the Ottomans (1439–1481): Politics and economics (PhD, 2009– )
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Laura Whitehouse, Gendering burial assemblages in early Anglo-Saxon England (MPhil, 2009– )
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Eirini Zisimou, The Church’s involvement in the economic life of the early Christian Greek towns (PhD, 2009– )
Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music
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Rachel Davies, The Virgin Mary in Montpellier codex motets (PhD, 2008– )
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Rommany Jenkins, The origin and role of sospiro in the poetry of Guido Cavalcanti (PhD, 2009– )
English
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Anna Gottschall, The Paternoster in late medieval England (PhD, 2006– )
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Andy Hyde, Power and sexuality in Old English literature (PhD, PT, 2008– )
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Ruba Jweihan, Arabic learning in Chaucer (PhD, part-time, 2008– )
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Aysegul Keskin Colak, Satire and the twelfth-century Renaissance (MPhil, 2009– )
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Lisa Kranzer, A comparative study of Reformation pamphlets in German and English (PhD, 2010– )
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Emily Rozier, The late medieval galaunt tradition in England: The form and function of a satirical youth figure (PhD, 2008– )
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Mary Ward, Imaginary landscapes in Old English literature (PhD, PT, 2009– )
Recent postgraduate research students
History and Cultures
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Peter Darby, Bede and the apocalypse: Eschatological themes in the Ecclesiastical History (PhD, 2008)
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Matthew Edwards, The formation of shires in the west midlands: The case of Staffordshire (PhD, 2008)
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Kerry Elford, The terms used for the priests and other clergy in the Anglo-Saxon period (MPhil, 2010)
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Mark Errington, Money and money equivalents in seventh- and eighth-century England: The transition from a pre-coinage age to a managed political economy (MPhil, 2009)
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Corey Hazlehurst, Writing Miracles in tenth-century Winchester (MPhil, 2011)
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Sarah Hinksman, The origins of Warwick (MPhil, 2009)
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Linda Hutton, A reassessment of the evidence for the development of Anglo-Saxon Hereford (MPhil, 2008)
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Charlotte Lewandowski, Cultural Expressions of Episcopal Power, c.1070–c.1150 (PhD, 2011)
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Olga Magoula, Usage and meaning of early medieval textiles. A structural analysis of vestimentary systems in Francia and Anglo-Saxon England (PhD, 2009)
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Adrian Mann, Dynasty and the family unit: Assessing the nature and structures of the west Saxon royal house in Wessex and Mercia in the later ninth and earlier tenth centuries (MPhil, 2009)
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Carwyn Morris, The concept of territory in the late Anglo-Saxon and early medieval cult of saints in England(MPhil, 2009)
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Rebecca Pickin, Constructing English identities, 924–1066 (PhD, 2008)
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Julia Richey, Individualising the spiritual self in late fourteenth-century England (MPhil, 2007)
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Michael Rush, The transition from Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon culture in Norfolk, c.350–c.650 (MPhil, 2009)
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Louisa Taylor, Texts and contexts: A study of aristocratic influence on Latin and vernacular historical narratives in twelfth-century England (MPhil, 2010)
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Ruth Taylor, Female spirituality in Italy and Germany in the thirteenth century: Case studies in religious identity (MPhil, 2008)
Ancient History, Classics and Archaeology (AHCA)
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Lisa Alberici, Age and ageing in late antiquity: A life course approach (PhD, 2008)
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Stavroula Andriopoulou, Diplomatic communications between Byzantium and the West under the late Palaiologoi, 1354–1453 (PhD, 2011)
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Laura Kitching, Images of Severan women (MPhil, 2008)
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Polyvios Konis, The post-resurrection appearances of Christ (PhD, 2010)
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Christopher Mavromatis, Kourion’shinterland in late antiquity and the findings of the Sotira archaeological project (PhD, 2011)
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Gregg Olner, The Emperor Julian and his attitude towards the Jews (MPhil, 2007)
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Eirini Panou, Aspects of St Anna’s cult in Byzantium (PhD, 2011)
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Jonathan Shea, The late Byzantine city: social, economic and institutional profile (PhD, 2010)
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Emma Southon, The development of the idealised Christian female in the third century AD (MPhil, 2008)
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Athanasia Stavrou, Socio-economic conditions in 14th and 15th century Thessalonike (PhD, 2011)
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Gabrielle Villais, Ausonius' cities: perception of the urban space in fourth-century Gaul (MPhil, 2010)
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Luca Zavagno, The Byzantine city (5th–9th centuries): Deconstructing and reconstructing the urban environment between late antiquity and the early middle ages (PhD, 2007)
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Eirini Zisimou, Early Christian marketplaces of Greece (MPhil B, 2007)
Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music
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Rachel Davies, The role of women in medieval French secular music (MPhil, 2007)
English
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Charlotte Ball, The woman in the water: The problem of Grendel’s mother (MPhil, 2011)
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Gavin Cole, Textual problems of the Brut (PhD, 2008)
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Shelley Harris, Gender and religion in The Phoenix (MPhil, 2011)
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Jo Houghton, The works of Guillaume De Deguileville in late medieval England: Transmission, reception and context with special reference to Piers Plowman (PhD, 2007)
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Andy Hyde, Sheep in (Beo)wulf’s clothing: Projection and the performance of desire in Beowulf (MPhil, 2008)
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Elisabeth Kempf, Corrections in late medieval manuscripts (MPhil, 2008)
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Lisa Kranzer, Continental influences on Reformation pamphlets (MPhil, 2010)
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Tim O’Mara, Prose in the Vernon manuscript (MPhil, 2011)
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Sarah Pittaway, The political appropriation of Lydgate’s Fall of Princes: A manuscript study of British Library, MS Harley 1766 (PhD, 2011)
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Emily Rozier, Elite male fashion and social discourse in England, 1337–1604 (MPhil, 2008)
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Anna Scholey, Magical rings in Middle English romance: An interdisciplinary study in medieval literature and material culture (MPhil, 2009)
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Sianne Shepherd, Anglo-Saxon Labours of the Months: A case study of representations for April and May (MPhil, 2011)
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Alison Spedding, Vernacular wills of late medieval England (PhD, 2010)
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Mary Ward, Words for wood: The lexis of trees in Old English poetry (MPhil, 2009)
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Evelyn Yates, Medieval fables featuring cockerels (MPhil, 2008)
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John Young, The gloss and glossing: William Langland's biblical hermeneutic (PhD, 2011)