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Ingrid Abreu Scherer
Email: ia240 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: Faculty of English
Research: I'm currently working on mystical texts written by and for women in East Anglia during this period. In particular, my PhD focuses on gendered constructions of time and space in texts such as Julian of Norwich's Shewings, and The Book of Margery Kempe. My work also deals with broader constructions of sexuality in this period, and presentations of unnatural/supernatural bodies and monsters. I'm also interested in the changing perception of the Middle Ages through history, and especially in the possible usefulness of the concept of a Postmodern Middle Ages. I am fluent in modern German and Spanish, and am hoping to work on some aspect of medieval Spanish literature - perhaps horror drama.

Laura Ashe
Email: la211 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 900-1500
Institution: Faculty of English
Research: My thesis was on eleventh- and twelfth-century insular and Norman texts (French and Latin: Fantosme's Chronicle, the Romance of Horn, the Roman d'Eneas, the Song of Dermot and the Earl, Gerald of Wales' Expugnatio Hibernica, Wace's Rou, and, oddly, the Bayeux Tapestry, as well as lots of comparative stuff) and I try particularly to be interdisciplinary in history and literature: the stuff I write is, I think, cultural history. I have a lot of ideological things to say about that, and about the old text/context debate, but I'll spare you here. I'm now writing a few papers - on Chaucer among other things - and looking for a second big project. Which may be in the Renaissance... or may not. Perhaps I shall hit the thirteenth century next and move forward in an orderly manner.

Linda Bates
Email: lrb28 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1300-1550
Institution: Trinity Hall/Faculty of English, Cambridge
Research: My main research examines the interdependence of literature, law and theology in the later medieval period, with particular focus on the Mystery Cycles. I have working knowledge of Latin and Old English.

Johan Bergstrom-Allen
Email: johan (@britishlibrary.net)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Research: I am currently performing research for a PhD on the vernacular (English) literature produced by Carmelite friars in the British Isles in the late Middle Ages.

Katie Brokaw
Email: brokaw (@umich.edu)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: University of Michigan
Research: Medieval drama
Chaucer
Chretien de Troyes
Medieval manuscript illumination
Religious culture


French, Latin

Han-Hsi Cheng
Email: hhc24 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
Research: My PhD thesis is about Piers Plowman and Langland's "cartographical" language. Apart from Langland studies and medieval cartography (esp. mappaemundi), I'm also interested in Chaucer studies, medieval apocalypticism, Romance, and the encounter of medieval science and humanity. I have a little French (alors, un peu de francais), but I'm far more confident in Latin (dico, ergo sum). Well, am struggling with ME and considering to learn a more passionate language such as Spanish.

Daniel DiCenso
Email: dd301 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 500-1100
Institution: Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
Research: Specifically, I am interested in the (alleged!) Romanization of the chant (and liturgy) that was said to have taken place under Pippin III and Charlemagne (roughly from 750-850). My dissertation, entitled "Charlemagne's Song," seeks to understand whether Charlemagne's reform of the chant was more an aesthetic and musical undertaking (to replace Frankish notes with notes from Rome) or whether the appeal to Romanize the chant was more politically and ideologically motivated (and, if so, how). In addition, I seek to understand better the degree to which the Romanization actually occurred and how musical and non-musical claims about liturgical Romanness stand up when musical and non-musical sources from the era are juxtaposed.

Rudi Eliott Lockhart
Email: rae22 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 900-1300
Institution: History Faculty
Research: I'm working on twelfth-century monastic reading and book collections. I examine the role of reading within the cloister as part of the monastic life, and in particular whether a distinction that some have made between intellectual and devotional reading is meaningful for this period. My work focuses on the diffusion and reception of the works of Hugh of St Victor, in particular the Didascalicon, in England.

Irène Fabry
Email: Irene.Fabry (@univ-paris3.fr)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: Sorbonne nouvelle
Research: I am particularly interested in verse and prose romances, and I have worked especially on Arthurian literature, both in Old French and Middle English texts : La Vengeance Raguidel, l’Atre Périlleux, Hunbaut, Le Chevalier à l’épée, la Mule sans frein and Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle, The Wedding of sir Gawain and dame Ragnelle, the Middle English Prose Merlin... My research is now focusing on text and image in the manuscripts of the Merlin en prose and its Suite Vulgate. I am studying the question of the narrative and iconographic coherence of the "Estoire de Merlin" which assembles the romance of Merlin and its long sequel (which was added later in order to integrate it into the Lancelot Grail cycle). I am teaching Le Bel Inconnu this year in Paris 3.

Ozgen Felek
Email: felek (@umich.edu)
Period:
Institution: Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
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Mary Flannery
Email: mcf28 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: Faculty of English
Research: I am most interested in the relationship between fifteenth-century English law, literature, history, and politics, particularly from 1377 to 1509. My MPhil thesis focused on the relationship between poet and patron as it is portrayed in John Lydgate's Fall of Princes. Currently, I am researching the role of fama in the same text, and this work has introduced me to the study of rumour, gossip, and the medieval ordeal. Other interests include Arthurian romance and Shakespeare's history plays (particularly the Henriad). I am proficient in modern Spanish and Italian, and am trying desperately to acquire some Latin.

Lynn Forest-Hill
Email: lynnevda (@clara.co.uk)
Period: 700-900, 1300-1500
Institution: Centre for Antiquity and the Middle Ages University of Southampton
Research: My main area of research has been in medieval Englsh drama, particularly the 'bad langauge' - insults, abuse, oaths, mockery. I have recently been relating medieval drama to C16 drama especially looking at the theatricality of female characters. I am also working on the Old English poem 'The Battle of Maldon' from the point of view of medievalism, so my languages are Old English, Middle English, Latin, and as modern languages: basic French and German.

Jen Gonyer-Donohue
Email: jengd (@u.washington.edu)
Period: 900-1500
Institution: Pembroke, visiting grad student
Research: Middle English, mythography, gender and feminist theory

Brian Gourley
Email: BMAGTHOIREALAIGH (@hotmail.com)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: The Queen's University of Belfast
Research: Currently completing a PhD on grotesque and carnivalesque transgression in the writings of John Bale. Research interests include Medieval Popular Culture & Festivity; Morality Plays; Reformation Drama & Polemical Writing; Gender & Sexuality; Grotesqueness; Medieval Film; Fool-Playing; Representations of the Apocalypse. Languages Spoken: French & German (advanced); Irish Gaelic (Intermediate)

Phillip Guilbeau
Email: guilbeau (@umich.edu)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: University of Michigan
Research: Theology; religious iconography; devotional trends and practice; religious communities

Languages:good - Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French; fair - German and Dutch

Alaric Hall
Email: alaric (@cantab.net)
Period: 500-1100
Institution: University of Helsinki
Research: Hey ho! My research aims to reconstruct and interpret key aspects of medieval world-views, focusing on the world-views of groups other than intellectual elites. My doctoral research looked at beliefs in 'elves' in medieval England, affording a case-study in the changing character and significance of non-Christian belief. I'm now working on constructions of space in Anglo-Saxon England (and early medieval north-west Europe more generally).

Joni Hand
Email: JoniH (@nyc.rr.com)
Period: 500-700, 1100-1500
Institution: CUNY Graduate Center, NY (St. Francis College, NY)
Research: My primary interest is in the cult of saints as it is manifest in visual imagery. Illuminated manuscripts pertaining to saints' lives from Italy and France are also a research interest of mine. I can read French and Italian and a little Latin.

Patricia Har
Email: prh27 (@cornell.edu)
Period: 900-1500
Institution: Cornell University, US
Research: French and English medieval literature (Old and Middle English & Old French); hagiographic and confessional narratives; intersections in the composition of personal and historical narrative/fiction; contemporary appropriations of the medieval; and literary theory.

Julian Hendrix
Email: jh421 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 500-1100
Institution: King's College
Research: My dissertation is on monastic liturgy for the dead in the Carolingian period. Wider interests include: early medieval cultural history with particular focuses on monasticism, ritual, Iberia, and Italy.

Patrick Hornbeck
Email: patrick.hornbeck (@stx.ox.ac.uk)
Period: 1300-1550
Institution: Christ Church/Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford
Research: My research focuses on the genesis and evolution of medieval heretical movements, especially the dissenting 'Lollard' communities which developed in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. As a theologian venturing (hopefully with care) into the provinces of literary and historical scholars, I hope to study the changing ways and idioms with which dissenters expressed their objections to the institutional church. Other interests include Catharism, Waldensianism, contemporary Roman Catholic ecclesiology, and the phenomenon of dissent in 21st-century religion.

Emily J. Hutchison
Email: ejh120 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Research: "I am mainly interested in political history in the later Middle Ages, 1350-1500. I specialize in French history. I am entering the third year of my PhD at York. My PhD thesis examines the duke of Burgundy's use of propaganda during the first stage of civil war in France, 1404-1419. My other interests include the Hundred Years War, and late medieval political literature, particularly that which relates to the civil war in France. My Master's thesis (York, 2001-2002) was entitled: 'Health and Illness in the Body Politic: Christine de Pizan's Response to the Civil War in Early Fifteenth-Century France (1405-1413)'. "

Sarah James
Email: sj2006 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: Faculty of English
Research: 15th-century religious writing in English; Lollardy; female education and learning in 14th-15th centuries; hagiography. Languages: some Old French/Anglo-Norman; medieval Latin.

Hunt Janin
Email: huntjanin (@aol.com)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: Independent writer and researcher
Research: I need to make e-mail contact with people who know a lot about medieval universities. My publisher wants me to write a book on this subject (for university undergraduates) and, as a mere generalist, I need to find some experts to consult!

Hope Johnston
Email: hwj22 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 900-1550
Institution: Faculty of English
Research: For my PhD thesis I am working on a critical edition of Brian Annesley's Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes (1521) with the closest extant base text of Christine de Pizan's Livre de la citee des dames (1405). I completed the Cambridge MPhil in Medieval and Renaissance Literature in 2003. Prior to that, I worked as a researcher for AT&T Law and Government Affairs in Washington, DC.

Nicola Jones
Email: nicolajones (@fastmail.fm)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: Department of Italian
Research: I am currently working on the development of the short story collection in late Medieval Italy and France. I'm interested in the potential for reading the framework of exchange so characteristic of the genre alongside the actual movement and gift-giving of the manuscripts themselves. I'm particularly focusing on the potential of the frame to trap/position the reader within a particular approach to the text. Within this general theme, I'm also interested in the role of illustration within the framwork of the medieval text. I work mainly in Italian and French, but also make use of English, Spanish, German and some (limited, but getting there!) Arabic source material. More specifically, the texts I'm currently working on are: Italian - Il Novellino; Decameron; Novelle (Sercambi); (Salernitano) French - Les Sept Sages de Rome; Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles (1464); L'Heptameron.

Jeffrey Knight
Email: jk401 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period:
Institution: University of Cambridge
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Elizabeth Lapina
Email: ealapina (@yahoo.com)
Period: 1100-1300
Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Research: First Crusade, medieval historiography, French Romanesque art

Tom Licence
Email: tol21 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 900-1300
Institution: Magdalene College
Research: My PhD aims to provide a history of England's hermits c. 970 - c. 1215. Beyond this I enjoy researching all aspects of monasticism from ancient to modern (spirituality, literature, organisation, benefaction etc). Oh - and Oliver Cromwell.

Carl Edwin Lindgren
Email: celindgren (@panola.com)
Period: 1100-1300
Institution: American Military University
Research: Chivalry, educational history (1300-1550), religious military orders

Thomas Lyon
Email: lyonnnn (@sbcglobal.net)
Period: 700-900, 1300-1500
Institution: UC Berkeley, CA (non-professional affiliation)
Research: Bertrand Du Guesclin; gothic architecture (1000-1200)

James Maiello
Email: jvmaiello (@umail.ucsb.edu)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: UC Santa Barbara, CA
Research: Medieval music & liturgy (plainchant) Music for the Asperges 15th century plainchant & polyphony Medieval Italian society & politics Languages (primarily reading): Latin, German, Italian

Nicole Marafioti
Email: njm28 (@cornell.edu)
Period: 700-1100
Institution: Cornell University
Research: I work on early medieval history and Old English literature, focusing especially on: medieval notions of sin; hagiography and saints' cults; Anglo-Saxon homilists; popular piety; monsters and monstrosity; food and consumption.

Helen Martin
Email: hmm25 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: Faculty of History
Research: My PhD research focuses upon the history of fifteenth-century English towns. I am considering how late medieval, urban governments created a corporate civic identity through their records, artwork and buildings. In particular, my thesis concentrates upon Bristol, Chester and Norwich, but I am also considering other late medieval towns. Last year I completed an MA in Late Medieval Studies from the University of York and my dissertation was entitled 'John Carpenter's Liber Albus: the civic context'. My dissertation examined this London custumal in detail, with particular reference to the earlier political context of Richard II's seizure of London's liberties in 1392 and the Northampton-Brembre disputes of the 1370s and 1380s.

Simon Meecham-Jones
Email: stmj2 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: Faculty of English
Research: Chaucer and Gower; Medieval Latin lyric; Historical linguistics/ language and cultural contact.

Lesley Morden
Email: lamorden (@sfu.ca)
Period: 700-900
Institution: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Research: I am completing my PhD dissertation entitled: "How much damage did the Northmen do? An analysis of the material impact of the raids of the Northmen on Northern France in the ninth century." I am utilizing archaeological evidence to either support or refute annalistic accounts of the Northmen's raids in the ninth century. The geographical focus of my research includes sites in France (north and east of the Loire) and the Low Countries (Belgium, Netherlands).

I am bilingual (English/French), I also read Latin and Italian fluently. I can manage to read German, Spanish, Dutch and Flemish.

John Munns
Email: (@)
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Daniela Nori
Email: danielanori (@tiscali.it)
Period: 500-1300
Institution: Vatican School of Paleography
Research: My research interests include:north africa pre-islamic period; relationship between the papacy and the bishops and the biantine administration; s. Francesco and his relationship with the Church of Rome by Bullarium s.Francisci. Languages include ancient Greek and Latin, medieval Latin, French, English, and Spanish.

Aurelio Pastori
Email: apastori (@um.edu.uy)
Period: 900-1300
Institution: 1) Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay; 2) SAEMED (Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Medievales), Argentina; 3) The Medieval Academy of America, USA
Research: Idea of Crusading and Holy War. Chivalry and Ideology. Medieval Church and the idea of war. Languages: Spanish

Maria-Kristina Perez
Email: mkp24 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 900-1100
Institution: French Department
Research: I am researching the transmission of the role of Morgan la Fey from Celtic Sovereignty Goddess to Old French/Middle English representations. I hope to expand the study to include translations into Old Norse, Spanish and Italian as well.

Aleks Pluskowski
Email: agp21 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 700-1500
Institution: Dept. of Archaeology/Clare College
Research: 1) Medieval ecology: the diversity of human-animal-environment relationships across Europe, focusing on a range of environmental and social contexts from the 11th-15th centuries, using archaeological, artistic and written sources supported by ecological and ethological analogues. 2) Physical and conceptualised predator-prey relationships in medieval culture and comparisons from other societies, including present-day Europe and North America. My Ph.D. explored human responses to the wolf and its environment in Britain and Scandinavia from the 8th-14th centuries. 3) Religious diversity across medieval Europe, particularly exploring the spectrum from pagan-Christian in Scandinavia and the Baltic region from the Viking Age into the late medieval period. 4) Seigneurial culture and expressions of élite identity in art, literature, architecture and landscapes, with a focus on hunting in northern Europe, particularly from the 11th century. Additional languages: fluent Polish, enough French and German for academic reading but not really conversation. Have experience of Old English, Old Norse and Latin through PhD research.

Camarin Porter
Email: cmporter (@wisc.edu)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research: I'm interested in the history of the Franciscan order in general, and 14th-century intellectual history. My research so far has focused on Fransican theologians at Oxford and Paris during the 1320s and 1330s, especially Chatton and Ockham. I'm interested in tracking the scriptural command to love one's neighbour (and consequently to love God) through the theological and philosophical debates of this period, although I've recently shifted interest a bit and am looking at this topic in biblical commentaries from the 14th century. My languages are Latin, French, German, and Italian.

Colin Purcell-Lee
Email: colinpurcelllee (@btinternet.com)
Period: 1100-1300
Institution: University of Lincoln
Research: Research interests include medieval marginalia related to editing marks/symbols: do these represent standardised systems across Judaic, Islamic and Christian MSS?; any differences between lay scribal/clerical (particularly monastic) editing marginalia; European dimension? Pre-Reformation Marginalia representing Dunce/Dunce's cap. Interests include Europe and Middle East. I have some knowledge of medieval Latin.

Yael Raizman
Email: yraizman (@study.haifa.ac.il)
Period: 1100-1300
Institution: Haifa University, Israel
Research: I am interested in medieval philosophy (especially epistemology and perception), science and music. The M.A. thesis I have just submitted focused on Robert Grosseteste and Albertus Magnus, and their treatment of light as divided in two (lux and lumen). My current research focuses on an attempt to find within musical Latin texts hints to an epistemology based not on vision and visual forms, but on hearing or on sounds as closest to being and truth. I begin with Boethius and Augustine, and see where I get.

Anne Robbins
Email: hincmariana (@yahoo.co.uk)
Period: 700-900
Institution: Institute of Historical Research
Research: Hincmar of Laon

Ruth Roberts
Email: rrr26 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1200-1550
Institution: English Faculty, University of Cambridge
Research: Tudor Prison Literature; Anchoritic guides. I am also interested in continuities between the Medieval and Renaissance periods.

Christof Rolker
Email: cr314 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 700-1300
Institution: Queens' College
Research: Medieval canon law; intellectual history 11th/12th c.; medieval marriage; France is my major geographical area of interest. Languages include Latin, German, French, Italian, and Greek.

William Rossiter
Email: wtrossiter (@hotmail.com)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: University of Liverpool
Research: My research interests lie mainly in the sphere of cultural and textual interaction between Italy and England in the late-medieval and early-modern periods. In particular I am interested in the influence of the work of Francesco Petrarca (or Petrarch) upon English poetics from Chaucer to Wyatt. The late-medieval reception of the trecentisti (Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio)as a whole, and the progression of English lyric form part of my wider syncretic interest.

William Sayers
Email: ws36 (@cornell.edu)
Period: 1100-1300
Institution: Cornell University, US
Research: Western European languages and literatures (Germanic, Romance, Celtic), with a current interest in the literary deployment of specialized lexicon (hunting, seafaring, trades, warfare); cross-cultural contacts as reflected in language; interfaces with other disciplines (archaeology, legal, economic and military history).

Nhora Lucia Serrano
Email: nserrano (@wisc.edu)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research: I am a comparatist at heart. And so, I am interested in late medieval Spain and late medieval France. I work specifically with the manuscripts which came from the scriptorium of Alfonso X, el sabio, and the collected works of Christine de Pizan. My interests are in illuminated manuscripts, writings that are considered to be Royal historiography, and writings that contain the figures of the Virgin Mary, Sibyl, Archangel Gabriel, biblical prophets, and classical myths. I am also very much interested in the role of the visual and the role of women in these time periods and in these languages. My languages are: Spanish, French, Italian, Galician-Portuguese and Latin.

John Spence
Email: jbws2 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: Faculty of English, Pembroke College
Research: I am in the third year of my PhD, studying Anglo-Norman historical literature in prose, mostly from the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. I am particularly interested in the conceptual frameworks of these texts and their connections with English noble families. My MPhil looked at representations of giants in Anglo-Norman and Middle English chronicles and romances, and I remain interested in romances. I am also enthusiastic about Chaucer and fifteenth-century English poetry.

Erik Spindler
Email: erik.spindler (@oriel.ox.ac.uk)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: Oriel College, Oxford
Research: My research is on marginals in England and the Low Countries (mostly London and Bruges) and on cross-Channel migration, with wider interests in urban culture in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Charlotte Steenbrugge
Email: cs446 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: University of Cambridge
Research: For my PhD I want to look at the personification of vices in medieval literature. I\'ll mostly focus on Dutch and English morality plays, but ideally I\'ll also look at other languages and genres.

Alex Steer
Email: alex (@cantab.net)
Period: 1100-1550
Institution: Oxford English Dictionary
Research: English lexicography and historical linguistics, especially Middle English and Early Modern English. English literary and textual history and historical bibliography. Languages: English, Latin, French, some German and Ancient Greek.

Larry Swain
Email: theswain (@operamail.com)
Period: 500-1100
Institution: University of Illinois at Chicago
Research: I am an Anglo-Saxonist. A good deal of my work focuses on various types of literary interconnections of Old English and Anglo-Latin texts: manuscript interconnections, commentaries, linguistic, use of the Roman and Christian past, contacts with the continent, Ireland, the East, Scandinavia literarily and linguistically and so on. The three paths in which this exploration takes place are linguistic (Old English, Old Norse, Old Irish, Anglo-Latin etc), manuscripts, and the Bible and biblical imagery.

Anke Timmermann
Email: at364 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: HPS, History and Philosophy of Science
Research: My research focuses on late medieval alchemical poetry (fifteenth century) and its reception in Britain and continental Europe up to the mid-seventeenth century. Interdisciplinary approach (my background is in English literature and linguistics, Philosophy and Maths), multilingual materials (the majority of texts I am working on are written in English, but I am also considering Latin, French and German versions – interest in early modern practice of translation and adaptation of scientific texts).

Levan Urushadze
Email: levzur (@mail2scientist.com)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: Senior Research Fellow of the Georgian National Museum (Tbilisi)
Research: Research interests: source studies of the history of Georgia and the Caucasus of the X-XVIII centuries, history of the Bagrationi Royal Dynasty of Georgia (575-1810), history of intercultural relations of the Caucasian nations (peoples), new history of Georgia (1783-1990).



Sandy Vaughan
Email: sandy_vaughan (@yahoo.com)
Period: 1100-1300
Institution: Faculty of History
Research: My PhD research concerns the three versions of the life of St Dunstan written in England between 1090 and 1130. My primary interests are the way in which meaning is conveyed within each text and the influences upon each writer's use of their source material. My wider concern is the cultural and religious history of England from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the aftermath of the twelfth century civil war (c1000 - 1200) and the reflection of this period within contemporary Latin historical writing. I have some German, a little French and hopefully improving Latin.

Diane E. Vincent
Email: deb28 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: Girton College, University of Cambridge
Research: I'm interested in late-medieval English vernacular theology, and my PhD is focusing on the use of question and answer to talk about God in late medieval England. I'm fascinated by the relationships between academic and popular religious expression in light of scholastic pedagogy, epistemology, philosophy of language, and the repression of the Lollards. My MPhil here at Cambridge was an enjoyable romp into the socio-linguistic and spiritual implications of blasphemous oath-swearing after Lollardy.

Tiago Viúla de Faria
Email: genetour (@hotmail.com)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: "Ordem da Cavalaria do Sagrado Portugal; Institute for Medieval Studies - New Univ. of Lisbon
Research: My main research interest is chivalry in theory and practice during the late Middle Ages. I have worked on several aspects of this, especially the portrayal of chivalry in sources related to the battle of Najera (1367). Specific interests: Western European knighthood and chivalry; Chivalric and court culture; Warfare and military technology; Anglo-Portuguese relations; methodologies and the employment of historical re-enactment. My research has been focusing essentially on the Portuguese and English territories and their cultural spheres. Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish. Fair knowledge of Latin and French.

James Wade
Email: jpw49 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1100-1550
Institution: Emmanuel College
Research: English and Anglo-Norman romance, Arthurian Literature, medieval historiography in England, Chaucer, Gower, vision literature, and fourteenth and fifteenth-century courtly literature

Katie Walter
Email: (@)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: University of Bochum
Research: My Ph.D. thesis, completed at the University of Cambridge, was entitled 'Discourses of the Human: Mouths in Late Medieval Religious Literature'. It focused on 'vernacular theology' from England in the fourteenth and early fifteenth-centuries, as well as on medical and surgical texts. My next research project at the Universtiy of Bochum is on 'Vernacular Skin', and continues my interest in the body, and in the intersection of religious and medical traditions.

Paul Webster
Email: pw235 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1100-1300
Institution: Faculty of History
Research: My PhD is focused on the piety of the Angevin kings of England c.1154 - c.1216, in particular that of King John. By using a combination of chronicles and administrative sources, I am seeking to approach the subject from a range of different angles, and to consider the development of royal piety over time, as well as comparing Angevin piety with that of other European kings, in particular those of Capetian France.

Charles West
Email: cmaw2 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 700-1300
Institution: Faculty of History
Research: My research interests focus on the comparative post-Carolingian (c.850-1100) political development of the regions of Champagne and Upper Lotharingia (broadly from the Ile de France across to the Vosges). This research seeks to address the problematic of the mechanism and meaning of the transformation of the Carolingian world, at the local level. At present I am looking at the transformation of the institution of advocacy: counties and the principalities are next on the list. Thematic interests include the vexing question of 'the public' as well as the nature of lordship in these regions.