Somewhat Coherent Research About Medieval Studies

• Sarah McKeagney (History PhD)
  Fear and Loathing in England's Church Courts
• Ed van der Molen (History PhD (University of Nottingham)
  The Saint as Fetish: Sanctity and Social Creativity, or Self and Society in Medieval France
• Ellen Gallimore (English PhD)
  Looking Backwards to Look Forwards: Medieval Tithes and the State of the Church in 1830s Britain
• Taylor Grey (CMS MA Alum)
  Waves of Emotion: Endurin Exile Through Reflective Speech in Andreas
• Aukse Katarskyte (Visiting PhD (University of Oslo)
  The Mystery of the Female Warrior: The Strange Case of One Norse-Victorian Hervör
• George Fowles  (CMS PhD)
  Howling Cats and Speaking Dogs: The Topsy-turvy World of Animal Sounds in the Íslendingasögur
• Robyn Stewart (CMS PhD)
  Harmonising the Word: Eriugena's Textual and Epistemological Use of the Eusebian Apparatus in the Periphyseon
• Joe Hobson (English PhD)
  Aldar stríð es fregit víða: A Lexicosemantic Study of stríð in Sigvatr Þórðarson’s lausavísa 24 and Oddr kíkinaskáld’s Poem about Magnús góði 3
• Sam Elphick (CMS PhD)
  Animorphs as Alleviator: A Re-examination of the Berserk
• Katy Bennett (History PhD)
  Dealing with Defection: Treason, Lordship and Policy in Late Medieval Gascony
• Marisa Michaud (CMS PhD)
  Constructing Colette of Corbie (c.1470-1475): Problems and Potentialities
• Suzanne Heskin (History of Art PhD)
  Sibylla von Bondorf: Artist and Activist
• Tom Williams (CMS PhD)
  Rannveig bað: Rannveig Sigfúsdóttir as a Pinnacle of the Icelandic Honour-system in Brennu-Njáls saga
• Nura Hassan (Archaeology PhD)
  The Reconstruction of Subsistence and Dietary Patterns on the medieval East African Coast through Biomolecular Analysis
• Maggie Pavleszek (English PhD)
  'This Weird Mausoleum': Victorian Receptions and Representations of the Gokstad Ship (1880-1889)
• Theo Long (CMS PhD)
  'For the Edification of Simple Persons': Gender, Status, and Lay Understanding in The Life of Peter of Villers (post 1237)
• Isabel Hedgecock (English PhD)
  ‘Omne temporus ieiunii constitutum est’: variation and intertextuality in Archbishop Wulfstan's (d. 1023) De ieiunio quattuor temporum
• Rachael Haslam (History PhD)
  Tracing Trust and Distrust in Late-Medieval Church Court Dispute Narratives
• Josie Collings (English PhD)
  Loki varđ hræddr: The Use and Abuse of Fear in the Political World of Norse Mythology
• Katie Vernon (CMS PhD)
  What's in a Weapon: Medievalism of Final Fantasy VII
• Gemma Lees (CMS PhD)
  Late Medieval Mercantile Representation in All Saints Pavement

• Isaac Lawton (CMS PhD)
  Enclosure and Authority on the 14th-Century Manor of Wakefield
• Robyn Stewart (CMS PhD)
  The Nature of the Text: Rhetoric and Ontology in Johannes Scottus Eriugena's Periphyseon (c. 870)
• Katy Bennet (History PhD)
  By Force or Free Will? Loyalty and the Lords of Duras, c.1345-147
• Aaron Sheldon (CMS PhD)
  Love and marriage in the Old Norse World: How a Mother's Love Affected a Daughter's Marriage Prospects
• Laura Atkinson (History PhD)
  Relationships and Registers: The Disputes of Archbishops Wickwane and Romeyn (1279-96)
• Lilly Hammen (CMS MA Alum)
  Skilled Smiths and Princes of Elves: The Wayland-legend and the First Age of Middle-earth
• Josh Coulthard (CMS MA Alum)
  Ambiguity and Ways of Comprehending the Other: Gaels, Scots and Marchers in the Lanercost Chronicle
• Basil Price (CMS PhD)
  Of Giantesses, Greenland, and Trans*ecology in Jökuls þáttr Búasonar
• Niamh McAndrew (CMS MA Alum)
  “Worshipp thys crosse”: Reconsidering a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript “Birth Girdle”
• Tracey Davison (CMS PhD)
  Skeuomorphic Textiles: Stitches in Stone
• Rosalind Phillips-Solomon (CMS MA)
  “Miraculous Aged Virgin” or Quintessential Virgin Martyr? Late Medieval Imaginings of Saint Apollonia
• Sarah McKeagney (History PhD)
  Black Antonia and Mariana More: The Recovery of Race in Late Medieval Court Records
• Gemma Lees (MA Stained Glass Heritage and Convservation)
  Clerical and Lay Representational Strategies in the Nave Aisle Windows of York Minster
• George Fowles (CMS PhD)
  Christian Centres versus Domestic Destroyers: Spatial Aspects of the Undead in the Íslendingasögur
• Hannah Armstrong (English PhD)
  A Sceptical Pilgrim: A Medievalist's Account(s) of her Time in Iceland
• Taylor Gray (CMS MA Alum)
  Tumultuous Seas and Turbulent Minds: Surviving Exile in Andreas and Beyond
• Katie Vernon (CMS PhD)
  A Workshop on Arms and Armour in Modern Pop Culture
• Ellen Gallimore (English PhD)
  John Mitchell Kemble on the Synod of Whitby: Secular Historiography and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism
• Josie Collings (English PhD)
  The Frightened Fisherman: Truth and Illusion in Thor’s Fishing Trip
• Maggie Pavleszek (English PhD)
  “Arrayed in olden wise”: Norse Medievalism and the Crisis of Cremation in 19th-Century Britain

• Sarah McKeagney (History PhD)
  Masculine Misgovernance: Cross-dressing and boundary-crossing in Late Medieval Cambridgeshire
• Brittany Orton (History PhD)
  Beyond the Freodowebbe: Examining the affinal networks of seventh-century Mercia and Northumbria
• Robyn Stewart (CMS PhD)
  Human Reason and Divine Ignorance: The Limits of Knowledge in Johannes Scottus Eriugena's Periphyseon (c. 870)
• Bianca Chiacchia (CMS MA Alum)
  "They led him out of the town and sent him to hell with his head smitten off": An Analysis and Reassessment of the Ridgeway Hill Mass Grave
• Kirsten Ogilby (Visiting PhD)
  Religious Medievalism in Frances Burney's "Edwy and Elgiva"
• Sara Moure (Visiting PhD)
  Flames and Tears around a Magnificent Babylon. The Accursed Biblical City in the Castilian Visual Culture around 1200
• Amelie Paulsen (CMS MA Alum)
  Custom or Exception – Some Thoughts on the Succession of William Rufus to the English Throne in 1087
• Katy Bennett (History PhD)
  “Treason and wickedness towards the king”: The Trial and Execution of Guillaume-Sans de Pommiers, April 1377
• Isobel Staton (History PhD)
  Writing the Manor: Manorial Officers and the Co-Production of Knowledge
• Hannah Armstrong (English PhD)
  Beyond ‘Lost’ White Communities: Norse medievalisms and Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
• Katerina Perdiki (History of Art PhD)
  Macrobius in Byzantium: Examinig the Case of the World Map
• Gemma Lees (MA Stained Glass Heritage and Conservation)
  Conserving Intervention: the Conservational Significance of the East Window of the Stapleton Chantry, North Moreton
• Basil Price (CMS PhD)
  Queer Indigenous Relationality and Old Norse Studies
• Cathy Jamieson (CMS MA Alum)
  “Why would anyone want to finally solve it?”: Puzzles, Pleasures and Polyfocalism in the Margins of York Minster Chapter House (completed c.1296)
• Ellen Gallimore (English PhD)
  Ambiguity, Infidelity, and the Doctrine of the Eucharist: Ælfric’s Sermo de Sacrificio in Die Pascae and Allegations of Norman Fabrication
• Aaron Sheldon (CMS PhD)
  The Old Norse Family: Talking About Feelings
• Josh Coulthard (CMS MA)
  The End of the World or a New Beginning: Negotiating New Realities in Post-Edwardian North Wales
• Lily Hammen (CMS MA)
  The Voice of the Narrator: The Adaptation of Beowulf’s Religious Ambiguity in D.C. Comic’s Beowulf: Dragon-Slayer
• Ed Van Der Molen (History PhD (University of Nottingham)
  Hagiographic Hegemony? Narrative, Rhetoric and Agency in Late Medieval Canonisation Depositions
• Laura Atkinson (History PhD)
  Disputes and Dossiers: Registration under Archbishops Wickwane and Romeyn (1279-96)
• Isaac Lawton (CMS PhD)
  Manorial Officers, Peasant Oligarchs, and Social Control in 14th-Century Wakefield
• Marisa Michaud (CMS PhD)
  Creating a Popular Saint for a Noble Laity: Approaching Patronage and Production in the Vie de Colette
• Nura Hassan (Archaeology PhD)
  Exploration of Migration, Religion, and the Substance Economy of Shanga 8th-16th Centuries

Shrek Medievalism

• Ellen Gallimore: "Welcome to Heorot, such a perfect town": Shrek as Grendel Victorious
• Brittany Orton: "For the love of a son": The Fairy Godmother as Medieval Stepmother
• Gemma Lees: The Perfection of Lord Farquaad: The Stained Glass of Duloc Cathedral
• Robyn Stewart: "Ogres are like onions": Approaches the Self and Subjectivity in Medieval Studies
• Kirsten Ogilby: “The years start coming and they don’t stop coming”: Comedic Temporality and Shrek

• Basil Price (CMS PhD)
  “I Will Go Nowhere”: [No] Future in the Political Landscapes of Njáls Saga and Grettis Saga
• Jordan Booker (History of Art PhD)
  Working with Museums: Creating Accessible Object Labels
• Brittany Orton (History PhD)
  Early West Saxon Queenship: A Recovery of Matrilineal Politics in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries
• Bianca Chiacchia (CMS MA)
  Women in medieval Iceland and England
• Madeline Fox (Medieval Literatures & Languages MA)
  Optical Theory and Feminine Auctoritas within Chaucer's the Tale of Melibee
• Ellen Gallimore (English PhD)
  "The great distinctive feature of modern Romanism:" Henry Soames, Ælfric, and Transubstantiation
• Katie Vernon (CMS PhD)
  "Icham to meche te be cristine!": how giants' race and religion is expressed through their arms and armour
• Laura Green (History PhD) 
  Archbishop Wickwane’s Register: Experiment and Enterprise
• Hannah Armstrong (English PhD)
  The Saga Landscapes of Sabine Baring-Gould
• Aaron Sheldon (CMS PhD)
  Keeping in Contact: Mæðgur Relationships in Medieval Iceland
• Cathy Jamieson (CMS MA)
  Animal Bodies, Sacred Space: interpreting the 14th-century oak carvings in Winchester Cathedral choir through an ecocritical lens
• Sarah McKeagney (PhD, History)
  Quantifying Trust: Debt Litigation in London's church courts in the late fifteenth century
• Marisa Michaud (CMS PhD)
  Some thoughts on text, image, & patronage in an illuminated copy of 'la vie de sainte Colette'
• Basil Price (CMS PhD)
  Sufficient Tragedy: Masculinity as Cruel Optimism in Beowulf 
• Rachel Harley (CMS PhD)
  The Enduring Bonds of Motherhood: Margaret Paston and her Sons
• Alicia Maddalena (English PhD)
  Some thoughts on the Distribution of Wisdom Words in the Old Norse Poetic Corpus 
• Becca Drake (English PhD)
  Maps in the Mind: Romances of the North Atlantic and Coastal Memory