Professor Frances Andrews
Professor Frances Andrews
BA, PhD (Lond.) FRHistS
Contact Details
E-mail - fea@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 463315
Fax - +44 (0)1334 463334
Teaching and Research Interests
Professor Andrews’ research and teaching focuses on Italy and also more generally on religious, social and urban history in the middle ages. She is currently writing up the results of an AHRC funded project on Religion and Public Life in Late Medieval Italy.
She is currently supervising doctoral students working on a wide variety of themes in social, economic, political and ecclesiastical history (see below). She would welcome applications in these and related areas.
Main and Recent Publications
- Living like the Laity? The negotiation of religious status in the cities of late medieval Italy’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 20 (2010), pp. 27–55
- Ritual and Space in the Middle Ages. Proceedings of the 2009 Harlaxton Symposium. Harlaxton Medieval Studies Volume XXI (Doncaster, 2011) [Details]
- Medieval Italy, Texts in Translation (University of Pennsylania Press, 2009) [Details]
- The Other Friars: Carmelite, Augustinian, Sack and Pied Friars (Boydell 2006) [Details]
- Pope, Church and City. Essays in Honour of Brenda M. Bolton, edited with Christoph Egger and Constance Rousseau (Leiden 2004) [Details]
- The Early Humiliati (Cambridge 1999) [Details]
Administrative Duties
Director of Research, School of History
Senate Assessor
Teaching Duties
Professor Andrews participates in the teaching of the MLitts in Mediaeval History and Mediaeval Studies, contributes to the Undergraduate Second Level Module in Mediaeval History and currently offers the following Undergraduate Honours courses:
- Heretics and Social Outcasts in Western Europe, c.1000-c.1330
- Mediaeval Rome, c.590-c.1300
- The Early Mendicants: Francis, Clare and Dominic, c.1180-c.1270
Research Students
Current Research Students
- Miriam Buncombe, The use of Ritualized Acts in late Medieval Mystical Texts (with Bettina Bildhauer)
- Chantal Gustaw, Dante and Contemporary Biblical Eschatology (with Robert Wilson)
- Robert Houghton, The role of the "people" in Mantuan and Parman politics (c.900-1200) (with Simon Maclean)
- Catriona Howie, Elections within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the tenth and eleventh centuries
- Kimberley-Joy Knight, Blessed are those who weep: the gift of tears in the high-late middle ages
- Jamie Page, Prostitutes as Testifying Subjects in Late Mediaeval Germany (with Bettina Bildhauer)
- Justine Trombley, The Latin Translations of Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls.' (with Chris Given-Wilson)
- Kathryn Tidd, "The transmission of Latin and vernacular ad status sermons in the early thirteenth century".
- Steve Watts, 'From the University to the Convent: Perceptions of Female Religious Life in the Letters of Master Jordan of Saxony'
- Anna Peterson, Sick Soul, Sick Body: Fourth Lateran Council and hospitals in 13th century Narbonne and Siena (with Justine Firnhaber-Baker)
Former Research Students
- Stefan Visnjevac, Preachers, Holy Men and the Governance of Late Medieval Italian Towns
- Alessia Meneghin, The second-hand clothing and rag-trade in late mediaeval Prato and Florence. Two case-studies: Matteo di Ghelli (1390-1408) and Piero di Francesco da Vicchio (1456-1457)
- Emily Graham, Cardinal Napoleone Orsini (1263-1342), the Spiritual Franciscans and political currents in fourteenth-century female spirituality
- Angela Montford, Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Main Publications
