Academic Staff
We are fortunate at Exeter to have around thirty academic staff with interests in the Middle Ages who contribute to the teaching and research activities of the Centre for Medieval Studies. This community comprises full-time staff as well as honorary fellows, representing a wide range of disciplines and departments from across the University.
Dr Yolanda Plumley (Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies)
Music, literature and court culture, especially in late Medieval France and Italy.
Professor Dionisius Agius (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies)
Islamic material culture, maritime ethnography and Arabic language and linguistics.
Professor Simon Barton
Politics, society and culture in Medieval Iberia; knightly society in the Medieval West; Christendom and Islam.
Dr Emma Cayley (Modern Languages, French)
Medieval French literature and culture, 1300-1500, especially Christine de Pizan and Alain Chartier; gender studies; literary and poetic community; manuscript studies and the history of the book.
Dr Oliver Creighton (Archaeology)
Medieval archaeology; landscape studies; medieval town and country; medieval castle studies.
Dr Julia Crick (History)
Medieval British history; Geoffrey of Monmouth; prophecy, propaganda and origin legends; land and power in Anglo-Saxon England; early medieval palaeography; the charters of Saint Albans.
Dr Maria Fusaro (History)
The social and economic history of Early Modern Europe.
Dr Sarah Hamilton (History)
The religious and social history of Early Medieval Europe, c900-1100; monasteries, bishops and medieval kingship; the institution of penance in Lotharingian, German and Italian society.
Dr Eddie Jones (English)
Middle English; middle English religious history; hermits and anchorites; medieval religious history; interrelation of textuality and history in late medieval culture.
Dr Elliot Kendall (English)
Middle English, Ricardian literature, the aristocratic household in medieval society, intersections of ‘literary’ and ‘official’ texts, medieval apocalyptic.
Dr Christopher Knüsel (Archaeology)
Social archaeology and skeletal biology/osteoarchaeology, especially with regard to activity-related bone change and orthopaedic disabilities; funerary archaeology, with an emphasis on the Near East and Europe from the Palaeolithic to the Later Medieval periods; palaeopathology and palaeodemography; and the definition of archaeological patterning and bone assemblage modification relating to the performance of past funerary rites.
Dr Alastair Logan (Theology)
Patristic theology; gnosticism; Platonism and Christianity.
Dr Angelo Mangini (Modern Languages, Italian)
Italian literature of the 13th century, especially Dante and Guido
Cavalcanti; literature, philosophy, and theology in the Middle Ages.
Professor Anthony Musson (School of Law)
English legal history and late medieval political culture.
Professor Ian Netton (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies)
Classical Arab and Islamic history; Islamic theology and philosophy; sufism; medieval Arab travellers; Arabic and Islamic bibliography; Islamic art and architecture; comparative textuality and semiotics; and comparative religion.
Dr Sajjad Rizvi (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies)
Islamic philosophical traditions, mystical theology and Shi'ite thought.
Dr Catherine Rider (History)
Religious history, history of magic and the church's attitude to magic, History of medicine and the body.
Professor Stephen Rippon (Archaeology)
Landscape archaeology; wetland archaeology; Roman-medieval transition.
Dr Tamsyn Rose-Steel (History)
Music and literature in the late Middle Ages, especially the works of Guillaume de Machaut.
Dr Uri Smilansky (History)
Music in the late Middle Ages, especially the works of Guillaume de Machaut, manuscript studies.
Dr Jane Whittle (History)
The history of rural England, 1250-1750 (especially 1350-1650).
Dr Ulrike Zitzlsperger (Modern Languages, German)
The literary figure of the fool, pamphlets in the Early Modern period, and the role of women.
Honorary Research Fellows
Dr Stephen Bemrose
The life and and the philosophical dimension of Dante's work.
Marion Glasscoe
Medieval mysticism
Professor Avril Henry
Medieval Christian iconography; medieval manuscripts.
Robert Higham
Medieval British archaeology; castle studies; medieval settlement.
Professor Richard Hitchcock
Medieval Hispanic studies literature; Hispano-Arabic studies.
Professor Christopher Holdsworth
History of monasticism c1000-1300, particularly that of the Cistercian order.
Professor Nicholas Orme
Late medieval English history (especially religious, cultural and social); the history of South-West England, including medieval Exeter.
Professor Michael Swanton
Old English.
Ann Williams
The Mediterranean in the late Middle Ages; military orders.
John Withrington
Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur; Middle English Arthurian romance; the role of the Arthurian legend in Medieval and Renaissance notions of history and nationhood.
John Wreglesworth
Visigothic and early Medieval Spain; medieval warfare; the Crusades.
Professor Alan Robertshaw
Late medieval German lyric, especially the works of Tyrolean poet-composer Oswald van Wolkenstein (c1377-1445).
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