Teaching Staff
Dr Simon MacLean (History)
Director of the Institute
Early medieval Europe, especially the Carolingian Empire and post-Carolingian
France, Germany, Italy (and everything in between); continental - British Isles contacts; historical writing; kingship and queenship; the Vikings.
sm89@st-andrews.ac.uk
Professor Frances Andrews (History)
Mediaeval Italy, the northern communes, the city of Rome, Italian chronicles; mediaeval religion, the church and papacy, religious orders, heresy.
fea@st-andrews.ac.uk
Professor Robert Bartlett FBA (History)
England, 1066-1300; cult of the saints; frontiers.
rjb1@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Bettina Bildhauer (German) on leave Semester 2 2012-2013
Medieval German literature; medievalism.
bmeb@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Michael Brown (History)
Scotland (1250-1500); politics and political society in late Medieval Scotland, Ireland and Wales; kingship, aristocracies and Identities
mhb@st-andrews.ac.uk
Professor Brendan Cassidy (Art History)
Art and history of Italy 1200-1500; medieval iconography.
bfc1@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Margaret Connolly (English)
Middle English literature, especially prose writing (including medical and utilitarian texts), devotional writing, later medieval manuscript studies, and book history; translation and later reception of medieval texts, editorial work on Middle English texts.
mc29@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Rory Cox (History)
Late medieval political thought, particularly the history of just war doctrine. Late medieval military history of British Isles and France.
rwscc@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Alex Davis (English)
Representations of the medieval in Renaissance literature; historiography of the
Middle Ages in relation to the Renaissance and modern period.
ald3@st-and.ac.uk
Dr Mark W. Elliott (Divinity) on leave March onwards Semester 2
Medieval Judeo-Christian biblical interpretation, the influence of Augustine, the
theology of Thomas Aquinas, medieval Christology, holiness, ethics and forms of
spirituality.
mwe1@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Kirsten Fenton (History)
The Anglo-Norman world; historical writing; national identity; gender; marriage; power.
kaf21@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Justine Firnhaber-Baker (History)
Late medieval France; law, violence and power; revolts and rebellions; manuscripts and archives; women and gender
jmfb@st-andrews.ac.uk
Professor Chris Given-Wilson (History) Semester 1 only
Late mediaeval England and France, historical writing, political institutions.
cjg2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Tim Greenwood (History)
Mediaeval Armenia (600-1100) including engagement with Byzantium, Sasanian Persia and the Islamic world; historical writing; Armenian inscriptions
twg3@st-andrews.ac.uk
Rachel Hart (Muniments Archivist, Department of Special Collections, University Library)
Manuscript and archival studies; practical palaeography.
rmh@st-andrews.ac.uk
Professor John Hudson (History)
Mediaeval England from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries. Legal history. Mediaeval historical writing. Late nineteenth-century study of the middle ages.
jghh@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Ian Johnson (English)
Latin and vernacular literary theory; translation; Boethius in English; gender and authority; devotional works; orthodoxy and dissent in English textual culture; Middle English Lives of Christ.
irj@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Chris Jones (English)
Old English Poetry and Poetics, translation of Old English, Medi(a)evalism, the reception and idea of the Middle Ages in post-medi(a)eval literature.
csj2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Dimitris Kastritsis (History)
Early and classical Ottoman history, as well as the political and cultural history of Asia Minor and the Balkans 11th-16th centuries
dk19@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Julian Luxford (Art History) on leave 2012-2013
Later medieval Britain, France and the Netherlands; architecture and the visual
arts, history, texts; monastic orders (especially Benedictine and Carthusian);
sepulchral monuments, retrospection
jml5@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Christine McGladdery (History)
Mediaeval Scotland, Anglo-Scottish and European diplomacy, Stewart kingship, crown-magnate relations, late mediaeval Scottish church and parliament, late medieval Scottish chronicles, castles and fortifications.
cam34@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Emily Michelson (History)
History of religion and devotion in late medieval and early modern Italy; culture of Renaissance Italy
edm21@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr James Palmer (History) on leave Semester 2 2012-2013
Early Mediaeval Culture, especially in the Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon Worlds. Ideas of time and the ‘End’. Boniface of Mainz and his influence. Mediaeval hagiography and the cult of Saints
jtp21@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Andrew Peacock (History)
Islamic history of Iran, Anatolia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, c. 900-1600; Arabic and Persian historiography; Islamic epigraphy and manuscripts. Other research interests include Indian Ocean and Ottoman history
acsp@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Rhiannon Purdie (English)
Vernacular literary culture in late medieval England and Scotland: textual editing; Middle English and Anglo-Norman romance; Older Scots poetry; regionalism in medieval literature.
rp6@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Christine Rauer (English)
Old English literature (esp. hagiography), insular Latin literature, Old Norse literature, the literary history of Anglo-Saxon England
cr30@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Norman Reid (Head of Special Collections, University Library)
Manuscript and archival studies; practical palaeography; 13th & 14th century Scotland - political history, kingship, national identity, historiography.
nhr1@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Stephen Read (Philosophy)
Fourteenth century philosophy of logic and language: insolubles, consequences, supposition theory.
slr@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Claudia Rossignoli (Italian) on leave Semester 2 2012-2013
Early Italian literature, especially Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio; Humanism and Renaissance literary theory, including Dante commentaries.
cr41@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Kathryn Rudy (Art History)
Netherlandish and German manuscripts; rubrics, prayer, images and indulgences; Medieval pilgrimage, claudistics, image rights, and digitisation; how Medieval users handled their manuscripts; measuring grime in margins with a densitometer
kmr7@st-andrews.ac.uk
Medieval vernacular translation (esp. Biblical) as a cultural and linguistic phenomenon, the medieval book, text editing, the emergence of vernaculars and vernacular literacy, medieval French language.
crs@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Katie Stevenson (History)
Late medieval and early renaissance Britain; chivalric culture; court culture; Stewart kings of Scotland; European orders of chivalry; heraldic officers of arms.
kcs7@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Angus Stewart (History)
Diplomatic, military and cultural interaction in the eastern Mediterranean in the age of the Crusades (c. 1000-1350); especially the early Mamluk Sultanate and its neighbours.
ads@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Rebecca Sweetman (Classics)
Art and Architecture of Early Mediaeval Greece, Globalization and Christianization, Nature of Knossos and Crete Early Mediaeval period. Fieldwork on Late Antique Sparta and the Peloponnese, especially on church architecture.
rs43@st-andrews.ac.uk
Mediaeval Italian literature, in particular: Dante Alighieri; Early Commentaries on the Divine Comedy; Classical literature and ideas in Dante.
rpw@st-andrews.ac.uk
Alex Woolf (History) on leave Semester 2 2012-2013
Early Insular History, kingship, ethnicity and language, medieval Scandinavian historiography.
aw40@st-andrews.ac.uk