Professor Barbara Bombi FBA

Ecclesiastical and religious history in the 13th and 14th centuries, especially the papacy, canon law, the crusades and the Teutonic Order; the history of diplomacy and diplomatic in Western Europe
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2022
Subjects
History, Medieval studies

Current post

University of Kent Professor of Medieval History

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Professor André Vauchez FBA

Western Medieval History; History of Christianity; Researches on the medieval conception of holiness and on the sacralization of space and time ; Francis of Assisi and the Franciscan history. Dissent and Orthodoxy in the West (X-XV centuries)

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Professor David Crouch FBA

The social and political history of Britain and France 1000-1300; the comparative study of medieval aristocracies; medieval conduct

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Professor Simon Gilson FBA

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

Simon Gilson FBA

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