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Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture (CMRC)
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture (CMRC)

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Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Dr Jakub Boguszak

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • casting practices in Shakespearean productions
  • actors' parts and documents of performance in the early modern period
  • the works of Ben Jonson, printed and performed

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: j.boguszak@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Professor Jeanice Brooks

Professor of Music

Research interests

  • Renaissance music
  • Music in interwar France
  • Music and gender

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: l.j.brooks@soton.ac.uk

Address: B28, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Emeritus Professor John McGavin

Research interests

  • Records of Early Drama, Ceremonial, and Secular Music
  • Scottish Literature, History, and Culture pre-1645

Dr Lena Wahlgren-Smith

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Mourning and Memorial Culture
  • Bilingualism and Language Choice in pre-Modern Europe
  • Latin Letters and Letter Collections

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: l.k.m.wahlgren-smith@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Professor Maria Hayward

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Early modern textiles and clothing especially in a court context.
  • Early modern court culture, including the Tudors and the later Stuarts.
  • Early modern Scotland, in particular looking at the engagement of the male elite with material culture. 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: m.hayward@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

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Professor Marianne O'Doherty

Professor

Research interests

  • Medieval travel and pilgrimage literature
  • Medieval maps, geographical writing, place and space, literary geographies
  • Spatial humanities (including digital)

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: m.odoherty@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Professor Mark Everist

Professor of Music

Research interests

  • Music and culture in Western Europe in the long thirteenth century.
  • Theatre and music in France in the long nineteenth century.
  • Music and diplomacy

Professor Mark Stoyle

Professor of History

Research interests

  • The English Civil War
  • Tudor Rebellions
  • Witchcraft

Email: mjs@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF

Dr Mike Bintley PhD, SFHEA, FRHistS

Assoc Professor in Medieval English Lit

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Nicholas Karn

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • My main research interest is in the institutions of law and the culture of the law in England in the central middle ages, and especially from about 1000 to 1250. This has arisen from my earlier work on 12th-century charters and acta, where I concentrated upon the uses to which these documents were put, and upon understanding the structures within which they were used. 
  • I have worked on the processes by which courts made decisions in this period. This focus on procedure has been productive, because it directs attention to who was allowed to speak and determine matters; whose voice was preferred in cases of divergence, and how precedence was accorded; how the agenda of the court was settled. In this way, the relatively formal setting of courts exposes to an extent little seen elsewhere the structures of local power, how shires and hundreds ran themselves, and how the king's power and representatives interacted with them. As part of this, I will produce a new edition and translation of the Leges Henrici Primi, the longest and one of the most important of the legal texts surviving from twelfth-century England, which will appear as part of the Early English Laws project.
  • I am also interested in the institutions of the church and the roles and influence of churchmen, 1100-1400; my first book was an edition of documents from the diocese of Ely 1109-1197 which illustrated these themes, and was published by the British Academy as part of its authoritative English Episcopal Acta series. A second volume, covering the period 1198-1256, was published in 2013, and a third volume covering the years 1256-1337 has been commissioned.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: n.e.karn@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF