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  • Looking East and West: The Reception and Dissemination of the Topographia Hibernica and the Itinerarium ad partes Orientales in England (1185-c.1500)
  • The Synopsis Chronike and its place in the Byzantine chronicle tradition: Its sources (Creation – 1081 CE)
  • An Analysis of the Correspondence and Hagiographical Works of Philip of Harvengt.
  • Conrad III and the Second Crusade in the Byzantine Empire
  • The Monastic Patronage of King Henry II in England 1154 x 1189
  • Aspects of the representation of penance in selected Middle English texts - image and exemplum
  • The de Verdun family in England, Ireland and Wales, 1066-1316: a study
  • The kingship of David II
  • Hagiography and the cult of saints in the diocese of Liège c. 700-980
  • Health, sickness, medicine and the friars in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
  • England and the Empire, 1216-1272: Anglo-German relations during the reign of Henry III
  • The Mamluks and the Armenian kingdom during the reigns of King Hetùm II (1289-1307)
  • The emergence of the cult of and the literature on St Magnus of Orkney: the Scandinavian and European context
  • The coming-of-age of a northern Iberian frontier bishopric: Calahorra, 1045-1190
  • Monastic hospitality: the English Benedictines, c.1070-c.1245
  • Images of adultery in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Old French literature
  • The life and legend of Giles of Santarem, Dominican friar and physician (d.1265): a perspective on medieval Portugal

  • The rise of the Almohads: Islam, identity and belief in North Africa
  • Rewriting history in the cult of St Cuthbert from the ninth to the twelfth centuries
  • Dyvers kyndes of religion in sondry partes of the Ilande: the geography of pastoral care in thirteenth-century England
  • The work and thought of Hugh of Amiens (c. 1085-1164)
  • Texts and contexts: women's dedicated life from Caesarius to Benedict
  • Perfecting prevention: the medical writings of Maino de Maineri (d.c. 1368)
  • "From water every living thing" : water mills, irrigation and agriculture in the Bil¯ad al-Sh¯am : perspectives on history, architecture, landscape and society, 1100-1850AD
  • Crown-magnate relations in the personal rule of James I of Scotland (1424-1437)
  • The work and thought of Hugh of Amiens (c. 1085-1164)
  • The political role of the Three Estates in Parliament and General Council in Scotland, 1424-1488
  • Holy Church, the simple soul and the literary articulation of an orthodox religious sensibility : the evidence of later Middle English texts
  • The origins and development of the Scottish Parliament, 1249-1329
  • An edition of 'Contemplations of the dread and love of God'
  • The patronage of the Templars and of the Order of St. Lazarus in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
  • Franco-Scottish Politics: Crown and Nobility, 1160-1296
  • Infernal and Diabolic Imagery in Anglo-Saxon Literature
  • Prisoners of war in the Hundred Years' War
  • The Patronage of the Spiritual Franciscans: the roles of the Orsini and Colonna cardinals, key lay patrons and their patronage networks
  • An Examination of Gavin Douglas's translation of the Aeneid.
  • The Paradigm of Civitas in the early Mediaeval British Isles
  • Jonas of Bobbio and the Vita Columbani: Sanctity and Community in the Seventh Century