Projects
Religion and public life in late mediaeval Italy
This AHRC funded project, led by Professor Frances Andrews with the assistance of Dr Agata Pincelli, will document the phenomenon of communal office-holding by men vowed to the religious life as a means to illuminate relations between secular and religious communities, the attitudes of elites and the ways in which they negotiated power.
A Corpus of Scottish Medieval Parish Churches
Principal Investigator: Professor Richard Fawcett (Art History, St Andrews)
Co-investigators: Dr Julian Luxford (Art History, St Andrews); Professor Richard Oram (History, Stirling)
Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council
It is widely assumed that the loss of medieval ecclesiastical architecture since the Reformation has been so great that insufficient survives for a detailed understanding of the pre-Reformation Scottish parish church. It is certainly true that relatively few parish churches still in use are manifestly of predominantly medieval date. Nevertheless, it is becoming increasingly clear that, despite the combined impacts of iconoclasm and some restructuring of the parochial network, a majority of parish churches survived the Reformation, as much for economic reasons any as for any other cause.
http://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/~cmas/
Mapping Medieval Baghdad
This project aims at analysing literary and photographic evidence in order to produce a new series of maps of medieval Baghdad illustrating the evolution of the city. It is financed by a grant from the British Academy and directed by Professor Hugh Kennedy, with the collaboration of Dr. Judith Ahola, Dr. Letizia Osti and Mr. Michael Kimber.
[More information about the project]
Geographies of Orthodoxy: mapping pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ, 1350-1550
The Geographies of Orthodoxy project is the first large-scale, collaborative investigation of the cultural and literary impact of the English vernacular Pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ in the period between 1350 and 1550.
The Writing of Albrecht Dürer: Translation and Commentary
Professor Jeff Ashcroft (jra@st-andrews.ac.uk) has been awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship for two years from September 2007 to work on Albrecht Dürer. The project will result in two volumes, the first of which will be a Documentary Biography. Volume 2 will contain the artist's workbooks and manuscript drafts on aesthetics and the technology of painting. It will be the first large-scale English translation since that of William Conway in 1880, and the first to cover the whole corpus of preserved material and to provide a commentary opening up the huge secondary literature on AD to non German-reading scholars and students.
For information on other projects involving medievalists within St Andrews University please see the Research Projects page at the School of History web site.