Staff and Fellows

Many academic staff contribute to the research and teaching of Medieval Studies at Leicester. Brief research details relating to medieval topics are provided below; more detailed information can be found by clicking on the staff member's name.

Details of current and recent post graduate research students and their medieval projects can be found here.

Staff and Fellows

Subject Email





Professor Joanna Story
MRC Director


Early medieval British and European history; manuscript studies
js73@le.ac.uk
Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy
MRC Deputy Director


Later medieval and early renaissance texts and their contexts amd13@le.ac.uk


Dr James Bothwell

English medieval political and social history jsb16@le.ac.uk
Dr Morn Capper Early medieval history and archaeology; Research Associate for the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain mc460@le.ac.uk
Dr Neil Christie

Late antiquity and medieval archaeology njc10@le.ac.uk
Dr David Clark

Medieval gender and sexuality dc147@le.ac.uk
Professor Julie Coleman

History of the English language and lexicography jmc21@le.ac.uk
Dr Orietta Da Rold

Medieval literature c. 1100-1500 and Chaucer odr1@le.ac.uk
Dr Peter Darby


Early Medieval History, esp. Bede and Heresy
pd124@le.ac.uk
Professor Chris Dyer

Social, economic, and landscape history cd50@le.ac.uk
Dr David Edwards

Landscape Archaeology, especially in North Africa
dne1@le.ac.uk
Dr Martin Findell


Early English philology, Runeology. Research Associate for The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain.

mf181@le.ac.uk

Dr Helen Foxhall Forbes

Honorary Visiting Research Fellow. Anglo-Saxon theology
hgff1@le.ac.uk
Dr Jackie Hall


Representing Re-Formation: Project Manager
jlh60@le.ac.uk

Professor Norman Housley

Crusading and crusading ideas
hou@le.ac.uk
Dr Richard Jones

People and the land between c. 400 and c. 1500 AD rlcj1@le.ac.uk
Dr Takako Kato

Digital Palaeography
tk97@le.ac.uk
Dr Turi King


Genetics and Archaeology (especially Viking Age): Research Fellow for the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain 
tek2@le.ac.uk
Dr Phillip Lindley

Late medieval architecture and sculpture
pgl1@le.ac.uk
Dr Andy Merrills

The history and culture of late antiquity ahm11@le.ac.uk
Alex Moseley

Medieval paleography (and digitisation thereof) and archaeology am14@le.ac.uk
Deirdre O'Sullivan

Medieval archaeology; the archaeology and settlement of Lindisfarne dmo@le.ac.uk
Dr Ben Parsons


English Language and Therory
bp62@le.ac.uk
Dr David Parsons

Ecclesiastical history and archaeology dpa36@tesco.net
Professor Charles Phythian-Adams

Medieval provincial societies, cultures and landscape cvpa1@le.ac.uk
Dr Philip A Shaw

Old English and other early Germanic languages ps209@le.ac.uk
Dr Richard Thomas

The archaeology of animal bones and human-animal relationships rmt12@le.ac.uk
Dr Matthew Tompkins


Late medieval rural, social and economic history, palaeography
mllt1@le.ac.uk

Professor Elaine Treharne



Medieval literature and the history of the English language etreharne@mac.com
Dr Danielle Westerhof dhw4@le.ac.uk

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