Research

Medieval play performanceCMRC has particular strengths in performance history and practice in the areas of music, drama, and song. Many of us are also involved in providing the raw material for research through the preparation of scholarly editions - of archival material, plays, and music. Across our various disciplines we also work in history and cultural history, with particular strengths in monasticism and church history. We develop our research with regular interdisciplinary study days, for example in lute-song, monasticism and editing.

CMRC staff and fellows are involved in many collaborations at national and international level.

  • In Archaeology, Alison Gascoigne directs a survey at Tell Tinnis, studying the remains of a late Roman to Crusader-era port city in the north. Also in Egypt, she co- directs (with Pamela Rose, Cambridge) the Hisn-al-Bab survey project and is involved in collaborative research on the nearby city of Aswan with the Swiss Institute in Egypt. In Afghanistan, she co-directs (with David Thomas, LaTrobe) the Minaret of Jam Archaeological Project.
  • David Hinton and Kris Strutt are working with the Kingsclere Heritage Association on an excavation of a 12th-/13th-century royal house at Tidgrove on the north Hampshire downs.
  • Matthew Johnson is beginning a project of survey and interpretation for the National Trust’s Bodiam Castle (East Sussex).
  • In English, John McGavin is working with colleagues in the UK and mainland Europe on establishing a European Network on the comparative theatricality of medieval and early modern culture. John also works with the CESR at the Université François Rabelais (Tours), and the international Sir David Lyndsay Society, a group dedicated to the multi-disciplinary study of late 15th to mid-sixteenth-century Scotland. 
  • Lena Wahlgren-Smith is involved in The British Academy-funded Network for “Medieval Friendship Networks”, which runs from 2004-2010.
  • In Music, Professor Jeanice Brooks is involved in an AHRC-funded network on Obscenity in Renaissance France.
  • Professor Mark Everist is leading a project on the conductus in the Middle Ages.

Our major projects include:

All individual publications are listed under CMRC staff, CMRC fellows and Research student pages.