Religious and cultural history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Elected 2019
Dante; Renaissance Italian literary, intellectual and cultural history; reception of vernacular authors (Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio) in Renaissance Italy; history of criticism; reception of ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle) in Renaissance Italy
Medieval Latin Language and Literature; Anglo-Saxon Literature
The political, economic, religious and social history of the Mediterranean in the late Middle Ages, especially Italy and Spain; attitudes in late medieval Europe to non-Christian religions and peoples