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Medieval European history

The Medieval European history cluster runs a lively research seminar series, has a strong presence in taught Masters programmes and contributes to the Glasgow Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.  This cluster hosts a significant group of research students (12 in 2006-7, many with AHRC, ESRC or Carnegie awards.)  Members of this cluster focus on three overlapping themes:

  • Cultures, representations and ideologies of power and their contestation
  • Religious beliefs and confrontations (Christianity, normative and heretical, Judaism)
  • The socio-economic dimensions of political life. 

Recent grant-funded projects in this cluster have included a Wellcome-funded study of the plague, an AHRC knowledge transfer grant for work on network theories, and a Pasold fund subvention for research on Burgundian tapestries in Glasgow's Burrell Collection.  This cluster organised the 2002 Battle Conference in Anglo-Norman studies and regularly hosts distinguished visiting speakers.  Past visitors have included Professor Walter Pohl (University of Vienna) and Professor Jeanne-Philippe Genet (Sorbonne-Paris I).

Staff and Research Interests

Prospective postgraduate students are invited to contact members of this cluster to discuss your research interests.

Dr. Stuart Airlie Political structures in the Carolingian empire; history of Europe 700-900

Professor Sam Cohn

Plague, gender and popular protest in late medieval Italy and Europe.
Dr. Marilyn Dunn Christian asceticism and monasticism to the ninth century; monastic rules; development of ideas of the afterlife.
Dr. Stephen Marritt Political and ecclesiastical history in Britain and Europe, 11-12th centuries
Dr. Andrew Roach Heresy and the spread of heretical ideas through networks, 12-14th centuries.
Dr. Graeme Small Political and historical culture of the elites in the Low Countries and France in the later middle ages
Professor Julia Smith Hagiography and saints' cults, politics and gender history in late antique and early medieval Europe
Professor Matthew Strickland Chivalry and conduct in medieval warfare; Anglo-Norman warfare; treason and baronial rebellion