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 |
| 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 |