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Staff and Fellows

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

Staff and Fellows

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Professor Joanna Story
MRC Director


Early medieval British and European history; palaeography and 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 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


Bede and Heresy
 pd124@le.ac.uk
Professor Chris Dyer

Social, economic, and landscape history cd50@le.ac.uk
Dr Matt Edgeworth

Public archaeology, origins of towns, archaeology of rivers me87@le.ac.uk
Dr Martin Findell


The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain

mf181@le.ac.uk

Dr Helen Foxhall Forbes

The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain hgff1@le.ac.uk
Dr Jackie Hall


Representing Re-Formation 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
Terry Jones



Dr Takako Kato

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


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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Further Details ...
Funding Opportunities 2012

New MA and PhD scholarships announced (Jan 2012)
Medievalists are eligible and encouraged to apply for several new PhD and MA scholarships and bursaries in College of Arts and Humanities (AHRC and University-funded).
Applications are open now. See here for further details.

Apocalypse Then?

A new book on Bede and the End of Time has just been published by Leicester medievalist, Dr Peter Darby

more here
NEW JISC grant for Manuscript Research at Leicester

Manuscripts Online: Written Early Printed Culture from 1000 to 1500 is a new collaborative project between the universities of Leicester, Sheffield, Glasgow, Birmingham, York and Queen's, Belfast ....

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