The Ciceronian rhetorical tradition in Latin & vernacular literatures of Western Europe & England; memory training & invention; Middle English literature.
French history from 1000 - 1350; the French in the kingdom of Sicily, 1266-1309; the political ideas of Godfrey of Viterbo; the sires de Beaujeu, 950-1350
John Arnold's research interests include the history of ordinary people in western medieval Europe post 1000CE; lay religious culture; peasant socioeconomic life; modern historiographical theory and practice
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