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Professor George Bernard supervises topics in sixteenth-century English political and religious history; and the architectural history of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Professor Jeanice Brooks welcomes students studying music and culture in Renaissance France, and those interested in song and gender.
Dr Peter Clarke would like to attract research students working on any aspect of church history in the later medieval West (1100-1500), especially the papacy, canon law, penance, popular piety and heresy. He is also interested in supervising students working on intellectual and university history, especially the doctrines of medieval canonists and theologians.
Dr Erika Corradini Erika is a historical linguist whose research focuses on how the English language transformed over time. She has taught historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and modern and ancient languages for some years before joining the LLAS (http://www.llas.ac.uk/) at the University of Southampton. Her research interests are centred on the history of the English language, book history and design and on the sociology of texts dating to the early medieval period. In addition to content research, she conducts collaborative pedagogic research especially related to languages and the use of technology in support of teaching and learning as part of her role at the LLAS and together with colleagues based at the centre.
Professor Anne Curry is keen to attract students interested in medieval military history, and especially on any aspect of the Hundred Years War, as well as those working on late medieval English and French political history, medieval English local history, and the role of women.
Professor Mark Everist focuses on the music of western Europe in the period 1150-1330, reception theory, and historiography, as well as French nineteenth-century stage music between the Restoration and the Commune, and Mozart.
Dr Alison Gascoigne would be happy to supervise research in late Roman and early Islamic settlements in Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean more generally. She has a particular interest in ceramics of the late Roman/early Islamic Middle East.
Dr Maria Hayward is interested in dress and textiles at the court of Henry VIII; the production of court revels and disguisings; early modern liturgical textiles; as well as textiles in early-modern archaeological contexts.
Dr Leonie Hicks is interested in Social, cultural and religious history and archaeology of Europe in the central middle ages, particularly the religious life, gender and the Normans. Her recent monograph considered the religious life in Normandy focusing on the day-to-day interaction of the laity, professed religious and the clergy and how this was negotiated through the creation and use of sacred spaces.
Dr Alice Hunt welcomes students interested in drama, politics and religion from the early Tudor period to the seventeenth century, looking in particular at the impact of the Reformation on plays and ceremonies, or on topics focusing on the reigns of Edward VI and Mary I.
Dr Marjorie Huntley is interested in seventeenth century English history, in particular, the relationship between literature and politics. She is currently researching for a book on Sir William Davenant, created Poet Laureate in 1639. He wrote for the Caroline court, for Cromwell during the the Protectorate and then during the first decade of the Restoration he became the licence holder of one of King's theatres and eminent playwright. A close study of his work should reveal the shifts in political preoccupations at the centre of power during the turbulent years leading up to the Civil War and its aftermath.
Elizabeth Kenny would particularly welcome people wishing to study the relationship between literature and music in seventeenth century England and France, or from people interested in aspects of seventeenth century performance practice in those countries.
Professor Ros King is keen to supervise projects on music and poetry; language, sound and gesture; drama and performance; staging and theatre history; literature, religion and politics in sixteenth-century England; Shakespeare; Tudor interludes and other pre-Shakespearean drama; Jacobean drama; textual editing; the arts in education; and literature and material culture.
Professor John McGavin welcomes applications for postgraduate study of early Scottish and English drama and ceremony, and has a particular interest in the interpretation of primary records of drama, theatricality and play.
Professor Bella Millett has research interests in medieval English literature, particularly devotional writings and the literature of preaching, and in the place of England in the 'Twelfth-century Renaissance' and 'Medieval Reformation'. She has recently completed an edition of the thirteenth-century Middle English rule for women recluses, Ancrene Wisse, for the Early English Text Society, and is currently working on twelfth- and thirteenth-century preaching in England.
Dr Marianne O'Doherty has interests in medieval travel writing and its reception; medieval literary and imaginative engagements with the East; textual connections between Italy and England; medieval books, readers, and reading.
Dr Andrew Pinnock works in two barely connected research fields: seventeenth century musicology, particularly Henry Purcell, and modern British cultural policy.
Dr François Soyer is interested in the history of relations between Christians, Jews and Muslims in medieval and early modern Spain and Portugal as well as the Spanish Inquisition. He also works on the history of slavery in the medieval and early modern Iberian world.
Dr Laurie Stras can supervise dissertations on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian music, both sacred and secular, including source studies, theory, and gender and performance-related topics.
Professor Mark Stoyle welcomes students in any area of early modern English and Welsh history between 1450 and 1660, especially on topics relating to the Civil Wars.
Dr Lena Wahlgren-Smith is interested in the field of Latin literature, including medieval letter-collections, editorial technique, multilingualism (both Roman and medieval), and neo-Latin pastoral poetry.
Professor Chris Woolgar supervises projects in all aspects of daily life in the Middle Ages and themes associated with the Library’s Special Collections.