Staff Research Interests
The Institute brings together academics doing research in Medieval Studies from a wide range of Schools and Departments across the University.
Archaeology
Late Antiquity; Roman and late antique urbanism; archaeology and identity.
Medieval Western Europe and landscape; Saxon archaeology.
Zooarchaeology and society.
Art History
Issues of identity and patronage in 16th-century Northern Italian painting, especially in Brescia.
Classics
Late Antiquity, especially warfare and international relations; religious life.
English
English place-names.
Old English, especially poetry; place-names and their history; the history of early English Christianity.
Language, texts and contexts in the Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia; runic inscriptions, skaldic verse and historical sagas.
Old English and Viking Studies, migration and identities in the Viking Age, especially perceptions of gender and identity; attitudes towards the diseased and disabled in Anglo-Saxon England.
Old English language and literature, the history of the Bible in English, the medieval Latin Bible.
Medieval and Early Modern Scottish literature and late Middle English writing.
English place-names; Old English and Old Norse language; Anglo-Saxon inscriptions; history of English dialects.
Late medieval and early modern historiography, especially Scottish.
Middle English language and literature; alliterative poetry, concepts of national identity, editing and textual theory, especially in relation to electronic texts.
French and Francophone Studies
Medieval literature, especially lyric poetry, allegory and prison writing.
German Studies
Medieval and early modern German grammatical texts, medieval German literature, language standardization and sociolinguistics.
History
Early medieval Italian history, especially gender issues; north Italian charters; Lombardy and Liguria.
Charters; the clergy c.900-c.1200; the English church in the late Anglo-Saxon and post-Conquest periods; ritual and demonstrative behaviour.
Politics, governance and administration of England in the later Middle Ages.
Towns and trade in later medieval England.
Late-medieval piety, heterodoxy and heresy in England.
Society of South-western France in the High Middle Ages, especially Gascony; religious heresy and social protest.
Manuscripts and Special Collections
English manuscripts
Dr Gavin Cole
Wollaton Manuscripts
Music
English and continental music of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance; codicology and palaeography; musical notation
Russian and Slavonic Studies
Cultural, religious and military history of Kievan Rus and Byzantium; cults of saints; dragon-slaying miracles.
Theology and Religious Studies
Byzantine theology with special emphasis on liturgical sermons and poetry; the cults of the Virgin Mary, saints and relics.
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