History of Medieval Spain
Elected 2002
Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge
Medieval manuscripts and their functions; technical approaches to the reception of manuscripts; creativity and inventiveness
History and archaeology of the Byzantine empire (especially 7th-12th centuries); pre-modern state formation; resources and logistics of late ancient and medieval society; environment, climate and societal resilience
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