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Doctoral Researchers

Entered 2025-26

  • Hadley Wehner, "Carving New Histories: A Study of the Medieval and Early Modern Graffiti at St Alban's Abbey"

Entered 2024-25

  • Eve Donlon, "An interdisciplinary study of atypical late medieval burials from England"
  • Gemma Lees, "Representing the Late Mediaeval Merchant: Commemoration in the Parish Churches of Norwich and York, c.1400-1550"
  • Theo Long, "Cistercian Lives of nuns and lay brothers in the thirteenth-century Low Countries"
  • Tom Williams, "Honourable women or misogynistic myths? The place of women within the honour system of Viking-Age Iceland as portrayed in the Íslendingasögur"

Entered 2023-24

  • Sam Elphick, "Religious expressions of Scandinavians in England, c.865-954"
  • George Fowles, "The Sound of Violence: Noise and Violence in the Medieval Icelandic Sagas"
  • Makayla Nicholis, "Shaping the Atlantic through Belief: early medieval empire and the limits of the known World (c.6th-11th)"

Entered 2021-22

  • Stephanie Drew (part-time), "The transmission and transformation of Mediterranean botanical knowledge in pre-Conquest Britain"
  • Rachel Harley, "Siblings and Sibling Relations in Later Medieval England, 1300-1550"

Entered 2019-20

  • John Margham (part-time), "The Isle of Wight c. 650 to c. 1150: a study of localisation in a landscape"
  • Katie Vernon (part-time), "Arms and Armour in Middle English Romance"

Entered 2013-14

  • Amanda Daw (part-time), "The Orthodox Imagination: the role of imagery in expressions of Eucharistic piety in late medieval York"

Recently completed PhD projects

  • Matthew Adams, "The long route up the mountain: aspects of the reception of classical and biblical mountain writing and medieval mountain ascents seen through the ascents of Egeria, Willibald and Petrach"
  • Alana Bennett, “Romanz reding on the bok: ‘reauralising’ romances from later medieval English household manuscripts"
  • Zara Burford, "Æthelwig, abbot of Evesham c.1058-1077"
  • Harriet Jean Evans, "Animal-human thresholds: the hybridic sociality of the household-farm in the agro-pastoral society of medieval Iceland"
  • Tracey Davison, “Keeping up Appearances. Investigating perceptions of clothing and textiles in Anglo-Saxon England”
  • Luke Giraudet, "A study of the 'Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris'"
  • Robert Grout, "Fatherhood in Late-Medieval Urban Society" 
  • Isaac Lawton, "Political culture among the rural peasantry of fourteenth-century England"
  • Ross McIntire, "Sacred Landscapes and the Cult of Saints in England and Wales, 1066-1220"
  • Marisa Michaud, "Par le moyen et avis de soeur Colette: Piety, Patronage, and the Relationship between the Colettine Poor Clares and the Valois Court of Burgundy"
  • Emma Nuding, "Fenland Pilgrimage: A Literary History of St Guthlac of Crowland, Medieval to Modern"
  • Tom Powles, "Orderic Vitalis and church reforms in the Historia Ecclesiastica"
  • Basil Price, "The Shadow Age: Genre and Place in the Post-Classical Íslendingasögur"
  • Emmie Price-Goodfellow, "Teaching by example: Cistercian exempla collections before Caesarius, 1178–1220"
  • Rebecca Searby, "The Anglo-Jewry in Law and Legal Culture, 1216-1235"
  • Aaron Sheldon, "The Ties that Bind: Love in the Family in the Old Norse Sagas" 
  • Robyn Stewart, "The Philosophical Theology of Johannes Scotus Eriugena's Periphyseon"
  • Lauren Stokeld, "An interdisciplinary semantic study of English words for 'buildings' up to 1250"
  • Jiří Vnouček, "The history of manuscripts with the help of visual assessment of the parchment: the differences in animals and processes employed in the preparation of parchment"
  • Tim Wingard, "Animals and Sexuality in England, 1300-1500"
  • Eric Wolever, "Cardinal Points and the Geography of Christian History in the High Middle Ages"
  • Elizabeth Wright, "The Materiality of the book and its status as a repository of Anglo-Saxon learned identity in manuscript depictions"