Religious and cultural history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Elected 2019
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
Medieval literary theory and the psychology of literary response; poetic identity in the Middle Ages; Nietzschean slow reading; medieval religious writing ("vernacular theology"); Syon Abbey; history of the book
Religion, culture and communication (mainly preaching) in the Middle Ages; history of religious orders and religious practice (12th-15th century); critical edition of medieval texts (maily sermons)
