Italian Language and Literature
Elected 1987
Emeritus Professor of Italian, University of Cambridge
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
Religious and cultural history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
The economic history of late-medieval Britain and Ireland, with particular reference to human-environment interactions during the 14th century and trends in agricultural output and productivity from the 13th to 19th centuries