Staff

There are more than 30 full-time staff actively involved in postgraduate teaching and supervision at the CMS, and also many emeritus staff, research staff and associates. The Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies is Prof. Christopher Norton.

A-G

Teaching Staff, surnames A-G

Steve Ashby
Archaeology of portable materials; use of animal products in craft and industry

Tim Ayers (History of Art)
English medieval art and stained glass

Peter Biller (History)
Heresy; medicine; medieval thought on population.

Sarah Brown
Stained Glass; ecclesiastical architecture

Gabriella Corona (English)
History of the English language; transmission of Latin manuscripts and culture.

Catherine Cubitt (History)
Anglo-Saxon history; early medieval religious and cultural history.

Tania Dickinson (Archaeology)
Post-Roman archaeology of North-West Europe, in particular Anglo-Saxon jewellery.

Jonathan Finch (Archaeology)
Church monuments and commemorative art; landscapes.

Mary Garrison (History)
Early medieval literary and cultural history

Kate Giles (Archaeology)
Medieval and post-medieval buildings

Jeremy Goldberg (History)
Later medieval English social and cultural history; women's and gender history

Jane Grenville (Archaeology)
Medieval standing buildings

H-M

Teaching staff, surnames H-M

Allan Hall
Archaeological plant macrofossil assemblages, including the organic deposits of Roman, Viking and medieval times.

Nicholas Havely (English)
Dante, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Anglo-Italian contacts

Jane Hawkes (Archeology)
Late antique and early medieval art and icongraphy

Philippa Hoskin (Borthwick Institute for Historical Research)
Late medieval English church

Amanda Lillie (History of Art)
Italian Renaissance art & architecture; patronage

Aleks McClain (Archaeology)
Archaeology of churches, commemoration, and the Anglo-Norman period

Nicola McDonald (English)
Romance and medieval French literature; Chaucer and Gower; gender studies

Linne Mooney (English)
Medieval English Palaeography

N-Z

Teaching staff, surnames N-Z

Tom Nickson
Medieval architecture and material culture; 12th-15th century Iberia

Christopher Norton (History of Art)
Medieval ecclesiastical art and architecture

Jeanne Nuechterlein (History of Art)
Late medieval and Reformation art of northern Europe

Tom O’Donnell
European literature 11th-15th centuries

Mark Ormrod (History)
Late medieval English government and politics

Tom Pickles
Early medieval church; anglo-saxon Yorkshire

Sarah Rees Jones (History)
Medieval social history, both urban and rural; medieval social ideals (eg utopias); Medieval towns (especially York), including archaeological, cultural and political aspects.

Julian Richards (Archaeology)
Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age England

Steve Roskams (Archaeology)
Urban archaeology; Marxist approaches to archaeology

Søren Sindbæk
Viking Age Scandinavia; network theory

Craig Taylor (History)
Late medieval French political culture; 100 Years War; Joan of Arc; chivalry

Matthew Townend (English)
Viking language and literature

Elizabeth Tyler (English)
Old English poetics (style and diction); orality and literacy; narrative

Sethina Watson (History)
Social, religious and urban history of England 1050-1350; legal form and social role of hospitals

Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (English)
Medieval vernacularity and multilingualism

Emeriti

  • Martin Carver (Archaeology)
    Archaeological practice and protohistoric Europe
  • Claire Cross (History)
    Religion in late medieval and early modern England
  • Barrie Dobson (History)
    Later medieval English ecclesiastical and cultural history
  • Allan Hall (Archaeology)
    Environmental archaeology, particularly plant macrofossil assemblages
  • Richard Marks (Art History)
    Medieval stained glass; the figurative arts in medieval England
  • Derek Pearsall (English)
    Late medieval English literature, especially Chaucer and Langland
  • Felicity Riddy (English)
    Middle Scots Literature; English urban literary culture