Institute for Medieval Studies

Institute for Medieval Studies

University of Leeds

Research interests of associated medievalists to the Institute for Medieval Studies

Tony Abramson
Research interests include:
Early Anglo-Saxon coinage
Publications:
Publications include Sceattas, An Illustrated Guide (Heritage Marketing & Publications, Kings Lynn, 2006), Anglo-Saxon Counterfeits: An Illustrated Guide (Spink & Son, London, forthcoming), and as editor The Yorkshire Numismatist, Vol. III (The Yorkshire Numismatic Society, Leeds, 1997), Studies in Early Medieval Coinage(Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, forthcoming).

Katherine Baxter
Research interests include:
Cistercians in Yorkshire (particularly Kirkstall Abbey); the archaeology of the Middle East; human remains in museum collections.

Robert Black
Research interests include:
Late medieval Italian grammar schools and elementary instruction; Italian humanism.
Publications:
Publications include Education and Society in Florentine Tuscany: teachers, pupils and schools, c. 1250 to 1500, (Brill, Leiden, 2007), 'The origins of humanism'. In: A. Mazzocco (ed.) Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism (Brill, Leiden, 2006), 'Italian education: languages, syllabuses, methods'. In: Lodi Nauta (ed.) Language and Cultural Change. Aspects of the Study and Use of Language in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Peeters, 2006), 'Benedetto Accolti: a portrait'. In: Ch. S. Celenza and K. Gouwens (eds.) Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance. Essays in Honor of Ronald G. Witt (Brill, Leiden, 2006), 'Renaissance and Humanism: definitions and origins'. In: Jonathan Woolfson (ed.) Palgrave Advances in Renaissance Historiography, (Palgrave, London, 2005), 'École et société à Florence aux XIVe et XVe siècles. Le témoignage des ricordanze'. Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 59 (2004), 'The origins of humanism, its educational context and its early development'. Vivarium, 40 (2002), and Renaissance Thought: A Reader (Routledge, London, 2001).

Philip Butterworth
Research interests include:
medieval theatre; staging; staging conventions; stage directions; special effects including pyrotechnics and magic (conjuring).
Publications:
Butterworth, Philip, Theatre of Fire: Special Effects in Early English and Scottish Theatre, foreword by Glynne Wickham (London: The Society For Theatre Research, 1998); ‘Jean Fouquet's “The Martyrdom of St Apollonia” and “The Rape of the Sabine Women” as Iconographical Evidence of Medieval Theatre Practice', Essays in Honour of Peter Meredith, Leeds Studies in English , 29 (1998); ‘The Providers of Pyrotechnics in Plays and Celebrations' in Material Culture and Early Drama , ed. by Clifford Davidson, Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series (Western Michigan University: Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1999), 59-74; ‘Magic through Sound: Illusion, Deception and Agreed Pretence', Medieval English Theatre , 21 (2000 [for 1999]); ‘Prompting in Full View of the Audience: The Groningen Experiment', Medieval English Theatre , 23 (2002 [for 2001]); ‘Is there any Further Value to be Gained from Re-Staging Medieval Theatre?', Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama , 43 (2004); Magic on the Early English Stage, foreword by Edwin A. Dawes ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005. Winner of The David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies, 2006, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society); ‘Substitution: Theatrical Sleight of Hand in Medieval Plays', Medieval European Drama, 9 (2005); The Narrator, the Expositor, and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre , ed. by Philip Butterworth, Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe (Turnout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2007); ‘‘Parts' and ‘Parcels': Cueing Conventions for the English Medieval Player', According to the Ancient Custom: Essays presented to David Mills , Medieval English Theatre, Part Two, 30 (2009).

Meredith Cohen
Research interests include:
Dr. Cohen's research focuses on political and urban history from 1000 to 1500, with particular emphasis on material culture and France . Other areas of interest include international travel and transmission, devotional practices, court culture, and the intellectual culture of the University of Paris. President of the International Medieval Society, Paris.
Publications:
Dr. Cohen is currently completing her first book, tentatively titled, Building Sovereignty: The Sainte Chapelle and the Construction of Monarchy in Thirteenth Century Paris. Dr. Cohen publishes articles that range in subject matter from medieval architecture and liturgy to nineteenth-century restoration theory and practice. Among other projects, she is co-organizing an exhibition on thirteenth century Paris at the Musée national du Moyen Âge (Musée de Cluny), scheduled to open in June 2009.

Jane Flynn
Research interests include:
Music and pedagogy up to c 1650; Keyboard music; Vocal and instrumental improvisation mid-14th-mid-17th centuries; Machaut; English liturgical music.
Publications:
The Education of Choristers in England during the Sixteenth Century' in English Choral Practice, c. 1400-c. 1650, ed. John Morehen (1995); ‘The Intabulation of De toutes flours in the Codex Faenza as Analytical Model' in Machaut's Music: New Interpretations, ed. Elizabeth Leach (2005); Articles in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (2006) and Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (1998-2001); ‘Thomas Mulliner and John Heywood's Educational Patronage' in Young Singers in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed Susan Boynton and Eric Rice (forthcoming).

Glenn R Foard
Research interests include:
Battlefield studies of 11th-18th centuries, especially terrain reconstruction and battle archaeology; Archaeology of landscape and settlement, especially of the East Midlands; Military history of the British Civil Wars; Application of GIS to landscape studies.
Publications:
Publications include Naseby: The Decisive Campaign, with A E Brown, The Making of a Country History: John Bridges' Northamptonshire; and articles on battlefield archaeology in the UK, archaeology and landscape of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Northamptonshire, aerial archaeology and fieldwalking survey. Also compiled the UK Battlefields Resource Centre. Current projects include a resource assessment of Scottish and English battlefields and a major survey of Edgehill battlefield. He is a member of the English Heritage Battlefield Panel.

Martina Häcker
Research interests include:
(i) History of the English Language; (ii) Medieval letter writing, rhetoric and education; (iii) Vernacular translations and adaptations of Latin texts; (iv) Depiction of women in medieval texts.
Publications:
Publications include Adverbial Clauses in Scots: A Semantic-Syntactic Study, Topics in English Linguistics, 27 (Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1999), xiv, 306 pp; 'The Origins and History of [h]-Insertion and [h]-Loss in English: A Corpus-Based Investigation' [Habilitation dissertation, 346 pp., under review]; 'An Englishman's Vindication of Scots: James Adams - Jesuit, Teacher and Linguist', Historiographia Linguistica 33 ( 2006), 85-107; 'Theorie und Praxis des Lautwandels: Was die Analyse mittelenglischer Texte für die Theoriebildung im Bereich der Phonologie leisten kann', in Gabriele Knappe (ed.), Englische Sprachwissenschaft und Mediävistik: Standpunkte—Perspektiven—Neue Wege, Bamberger Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 48 (Frankfurt: Lang, 2005), 137-155; 'Intrusive [h] in Present-Day English Accents and <h>-Insertion in Medieval English Manuscripts: Hypercorrection or Functionally Motivated Language Use?', in Christian Kay et al. (eds.), New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected Papers From 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21-26 August 2002, vol. II: Lexis and Transmission (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2004), 109-123. Dr. Häcker is currently Lecturer in English Language at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz.

Joyce Hill
Research interests include:
The Benedictine Reform in Anglo-Saxon England; Ælfric, Old English homilies and saints' lives; Old English heroic poetry; Pilgrims and pilgrimages, particularly in Old Icelandic.
Publications:
Publications include The Community, the Family and the Saint: Patterns of Power in Early Medieval Europe, co-edited with Mary Swan, an edition of the OE Minor Heroic Poems (revised), Jerusalem Pilgrimage 1099-1187 and articles on Ælfric's Pastoral Letters, Catholic Homilies, Lives of Saints and Colloquy, the Regularis Concordia, the influences of the Carolingian reform on tenth-century Anglo-Saxon England, women in OE heroic poetry, OE biblical verse, Old English preaching styles, medieval authorial identity and pilgrimage and prestige in the Icelandic sagas. She gave the Toller Lecture in 1996, the Jarrow Lecture in 1998 and the Sir Israel Gollancz lecture at the British Academy in 2004. She chairs the AHRC Research Panel for English Language and Literature and is Deputy Chair of the AHRC's Research Committee.

Hannah Hunt
Research interests include:
Penthos (spiritual tears/compunction) in Byzantine and Syriac monasticism; Religious anthropology in the late antique world; Gender and redemption in the Cappadocians; Gregory of Narek and Armenian literature; Symeon the New Theologian; Klimakos and desert monasticism.
Publications:
Publications include articles on Repentance, Love and Sacraments for The Westminster Handbook to Origen, ed. J McGuckin (Westminster: John Knox Press, 2004); Joybearing Grief: Tears of Contrition in the Writings of the Early Syrian and Byzantine fathers (Leiden: Brill, 2004). Forthcoming in 2005: 10,000 word chapter on Byzantine Christianity for Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity. She has also reviewed a wide range of books on early Christian spirituality and is a member of the Orthodox Theological Research Forum.

Robert W. Jones
Research interests include:
Medieval military culture from the 11th to 14th centuries, in particular the use of martial display on the battlefield; The socio-cultural and psychological significance assigned to material culture; The development and use of heraldry in the high and late Middle Ages.
Publications:
Publications include Knight: The Warrior and World of Chivalry (Osprey Publishing, 2011), Bloodied Banners: Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield. (Boydell and Brewer, 2010), Entries on 'The Peace and Truce of God', 'Chivalry' and 'The Great Companies' for The Encyclopaedia of Warfare, ed. G. Martel (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), Entries on 'banners', 'livery and uniforms' and 'signals' for Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: An Encyclopaedia, ed. C. Rogers (Oxford University Press, 2010), 'þen hentes he þe healme, and hastily hit kisses: The symbolic significance of donning armour in medieval romance.' Battles and Bloodshed: The Medieval World at War. (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming), 'Re-thinking the origins of the ‘Irish' hobelar.' Cardiff Historical Papers (2008), 'Identifying the Warrior on the Pre-Heraldic Battlefield.' Anglo-Norman Studies, 30 (2008) 154-67, ''What Banner Thine?' The Banner as Symbol of Identification, Status and Authority on the Medieval Battlefield.' Haskins Society Journal, 15 (2006) 101-9.

Peter Lock
Research interests include:
Latin settlement in the Aegean (13th to 15th centuries); Greek-Latin perceptions of each other after the Fourth Crusade; The military orders in the Aegean; Field survey of medieval sites on Rhodes; Archaeology and historiography of Greece and the Aegean.
Publications:
Publications include The Franks in the Aegean (1995) and The Archaeology of Medieval Greece(1996) together with many articles on the above topics. Recent and forthcoming publications include articles on Greco-Latin relations in the Valley of the Muses, Bœotia, an interim report on field survey of the freestanding towers of Rhodes and the site of Palatia near Monolithos, and The Routledge Companion to the Crusades published in January 2006. Currently producing an English translation of the crusader texts of Marino Sanudo Torsello (Istoria della Regno di Romanis, the Continuation of Villehardouin and the Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis) to be published as Marino Sanido Torsello and Crusading in the Fourteenth Century (Ashgate, 2007).

Peter Meredith
Research interests include:
Medieval Drama Local History
Publications:
Most recent publications include 'Establishing an expositor's role: Contemplacio and the N.town manuscript' in The Narrator, the Expositor and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre, ed. by Philip Butterworth (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp.289-306, ‘Some notes on the Amesbury Psalter Crucifixion (All Souls College, Oxford, MS Lat 6)', Leeds Studies in English, 37 (2006), pp.427-39, ‘Some high place': Actualising Heaven in the Middle Ages' in Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages, ed. by Carolyn Muessig and Ad Putter (London: Routledge, 2007), pp.139-54, ‘“Young men will do it”: fun, disorder and good government in York, 1555, some thoughts on House Book 21' in ‘Bring furth the pagants': Essays in Early English Drama presented to Alexandra F.Johnston, ed. by David Klausner and Karen Marsalek (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), pp.41-57, ‘A Tale of Two Plays' in Mainte belle oeuvre faicte: Études sur le théâtre médiéval offertes à Graham A. Runnalls, ed. by Denis Hüe, Mario Longtin, Lynette Muir (Orléans: Paradigme, 2005), pp.407-18, ‘The Language of Medieval Cookery' in The English Cookery Book: Historical Essays, ed. by Eileen White (Totnes: Prospect Books, 2004), pp.28-54, ‘The Corpus Christi Bull, 1264: Latin text with modern English translation', Medieval English Theatre, 24 (2002), pp.62-78, ‘Carved and Spoken Words: the Angelic Salutation, The Mary Play and South Walsham Church, Norfolk', Leeds Studies in English, 32(2001), pp.369-98, ‘Latin Liturgical Drama' in Theatre in Europe: a documentary history; The Medieval European Stage, 500-1550, ed. by William Tydeman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp.53-134, ‘The City of York and its “Play of Pageants”', Early Theatre, 3 (2000), pp.22-47, ‘Mystery plays' in The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought, ed. by Adrian Hastings, Alistair Mason and Hugh Piper (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp.459-60.

Alec McAllister
Research interests include:
Computing in foreign languages and non-standard alphabets; Computer-Assisted Learning (CAL); Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL); Computing for non-specialists; TEI (the Text Encoding Initiative); XML (Extended Markup Language).
Publications include:
Current projects include the production of Unicode fonts to enable multilingual computing, including medieval characters for which few international standards exist. Founder member of MUFI: the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (http://helmer.hit.uib.no/mufi/).

Rory McTurk
Research interests include:
Old English and Old Norse poetic style; Old Norse mythology; Early medieval Scandinavian literature; Medieval Scandinavian kingship; Old and Modern Icelandic literature; Norse-Celtic literary connections; Modern literary theory.
Publications:
Publications include, as well numerous articles on the above topics, a book on Ragnars saga lothbrókar and its Major Scandinavian Analogues (1991), and Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds (2005). Edited volumes include the Blackwell Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture (2005). Current projects include an edition and translation of Ragnars saga and related works; further work on medieval Scandinavian kingship; and an analysis of stylistic parallelism in Beowulf.

Dominic Powlesland
Research interests include:
Research interests include the archaeology of landscapes from the Palaeolithic to the present; practice and process in archaeological excavation; air-borne and ground based remote sensing; computer applications in archaeology; geospatial data integration and analysis; hidden landscape reconstruction; the archaeology of Eastern Yorkshire; early medieval settlement, death and burial.
Publications on these themes in the last ten years include:
'Early Anglo-Saxon Settlements, Structures Form and Layout', in The Anglo-Saxons, from the Migration Period to the 8th Century: An Ethnographic Perspective, ed. by J. Hines (San Marino: Boydell, 1997), pp.101-24. 'West Heslerton - The Anglian Settlement: Assessment of Potential for Analysis and Updated Project Design', Internet Archaeology, 5 (1998) With C. A. Haughton, West Heslerton - The Anglian Cemetery, 2 vols, Landscape Research Centre Monograph, 1, (Yedingham , 1999) 'The Anglo-Saxon Settlement at West Heslerton, North Yorkshire', in Northumbria's Golden Age, ed. by J. Hawkes and S. Mills (Sutton: Stroud, 1999), pp. 55-65. 'West Heslerton: Aspects of Settlement Mobility', in Early Deira: Archaeological Studies of the East Riding in the Fourth to Ninth Centuries AD, ed. by H. Geake and J. Kenny (Oxford: Oxbow, 2000). 'The Heslerton Parish Project: An Integrated Multi-Sensor Approach to the Archaeological Study of Eastern Yorkshire, England', in Remote Sensing in Archaeology, ed. by Forte and S. Campagna, XI Ciclio di Lezioni sulla, (Florence, 2001), pp. 233-35. 'The Heslerton Parish Project: Twenty Years of Archaeological Research in the Vale of Pickering', in The Archaeology of Yorkshire An Assessment at the Beginning of the 21st Century, ed. by T. G. Manby, S. Moorhouse and P. Ottaway, (Leeds, Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 2003), pp. 275-92. 'The Early-Middle Anglo-Saxon Period' in Historical Atlas of North Yorkshire, ed. by Robin Butlin, (Leeds, 2003) pp. 62-65. Twenty-five Years' Research on the Sands and Gravels of the Vale of Pickering(Yedingham: Landscape Research Centre, 2003) With P. Budd, C. Chenery, J. Montgomery and J. Evans, 'Anglo-Saxon Residential Mobility at West Heslerton, North Yorkshire, UK from Combined O- and SR-Isotope Analysis', in Plasma Source Mass Spectrometry: Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Plasma Mass Spectrometry, ed. by G. Holland and S. D. Tanner (London: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003). With D. Lyall, G. Hopkinson, D. Donoghue, M. Beck, A. Harte, and D. Stott, 'Beneath the Sand: Remote Sensing, Archaeology, Aggregates and Sustainability: A Case Study from Heslerton, the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, England', Archaeological Prospection (2006) With Lyall, D, 'Beneath the Sand: Multi-Sensor Studies Within the Archaeological Landscape of the Vale of Pickering, North Yorkshire, England', Archaeological Prospection, (2006) 'Why Bother? Large-Scale Geomagnetic Survey and the Quest for "Real Archaeology"', in Geophysics for Landscape Archaeology: Papers Presented at the 15th International Summer School for Archaeology, University of Siena, Grosseto, July 2006, ed. by R. Francovitch, S. Campana and S. Piro

Penny Robinson
Research interests include:
History and culture of the Jews in Spain and Portugal; History of the Jews in Christian Europe; Galician-Portuguese lyric poetry; Medieval Spanish and Portuguese drama.
Publications:
Publications include articles on Galician-Portuguese lyric poetry and medieval Spanish drama. Current research projects include the Galician-Portuguese lyric (the cantigas de amigo) and medieval Portuguese Jewry.

Stephen Ryle
Research interests include:
The literature of the Carolingian period; The literature of the Latin liturgy: hymns, sequences, tropes, rhymed offices; Latin lyric poetry, secular and sacred.
Publications:
Research projects involve the poetry of Notker Balbulus and a study of the Speculum Virginum (c. 1140).

Pauline Stafford
Research interests include:
Pauline Stafford works on British history pre 1100, in a comparative European framework. Her special interests lie in the period c 800-1100, and in the history of women, especially elite women and queens. Now in quasi-retirement, she has returned to her interests in early medieval women, and has delivered two lectures this year on one current research topic, Fathers and Daughters. She is also working on the vernacular chronicles, the so-called ‘Anglo-Saxon Chronicle', especially after Alfred, i.e. their tenth and eleventh century developments, and has a series of recent and forthcoming articles on this.
Publications include:
She has published books on the social and political history of England– Unification and Conquest, a political and social history of England in the tenth and eleventh centuries [1989] and The East Midlands in the Early Middle Ages [1985] – and on queens, Queens, Concubines and Dowagers, The King's wife in the Early Middle Ages [1983, 2 nd ed. 1998, Spanish translation 2007], and Queen Emma and Queen Edith, Women and power in eleventh-century England [1997]. A collection of her essays was published by Ashgate in 2006, Gender, Family and the Legitimation of Power, England from the ninth to the early twelfth century. She was editor for Blackwell of A Companion to the Early Middle Ages, Britain and Ireland, c 500-1100 [2009].

David A. Stocker
Research interests include:
Archaealogy, architecture and the landscape in the British Isles.
Publications:
Publications include The Making of Grantham: The Medieval Town [2011]; Custodians of Continuity. The Premonstratensian Abbey at Barlings and its landscape [2012]; Future projects include Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture . Volume 10, Cambridgeshire and Nottinghamshire, Lincoln Cathedral before St Hugh, The Churches of Lincoln City .

Karen Watts
Research interests include:
Arms and armour; Tournaments and chivalry; Dress and textiles; Fifteenth-century art in England, France and Italy; French military history.
Publications:
Recent and forthcoming publications include articles on English funerary armour, heralds and the tournament, French royal armours and dress from Chartres Cathedral, the armour of the knights of Malta and princely armours and weapons of childhood. Current projects include researching and curating an exhibition about Jersey’s medieval military history and a book on the development of specialised forms of tournament.

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