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.
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
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
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