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The lists provided here offer a guide to the hundreds of dissertations on topics in Medieval Studies completed at Harvard University during the last three decades. Please inform Sean Gilsdorf of any omissions, errors, or necessary corrections.

Dissertations by Author

Rahim Acar (NELC, 2002): Creation: A comparative study between Avicenna's and Aquinas' positions

Catherine Adoyo (Romance Languages, 2011): The order of all things: Mimetic craft in Dante's Commedia

Panagiotis Agapitos (Classics, 1990): Narrative structure in the Byzantine vernacular romances: A textual and literary study of Kallimachos , Belthandros and Libistros

Ahmad Ahmad (NELC, 2005): Structural interrelations of theory and practice in Islamic law: A study of Takhrīj al-Furūʻ ʻalá al-Uṣūl literature

Aslıhan Akışık (History and Middle Eastern Studies, 2013): Self and other in the Renaissance: Laonikos Chalkokondyles and Late Byzantine Intellectuals

Yasmine Al-Saleh (History of Art, 2014): "Licit Magic": The Touch and Sight Of Islamic Talismanic Scrolls

Dimiter Angelov (History, 2002): Imperial ideology and political thought in Byzantium, 1204-ca. 1330

Diliana Angelova (History of Art, 2005): Gender and imperial authority in Rome and early Byzantium, first to sixth centuries

Zayde Antrim (History, 2005): Place and belonging in medieval Syria, 6th/12th to 8th/14th centuries

Sinān Antūn (NELC, 2006): The poetics of the obscene: Ibn al-Ḥajjāj and Sukhf

Francesco Aresu (Romance Languages, 2015): The Author as Scribe: Materiality and Textuality in the Trecento

Kirsten Ataoguz (History of Art, 2007): The apostolic commissioning of the monks of Saint John in Müestair, Switzerland: painting and preaching in a Churraetian Monastery

Sarah Axelrod (Romance Languages, 2015): Umorismo and Critical Reading in Boccaccio’s Vernacular and Latin Opere ‘Minori’

Fatemeh Azinfar (Comparative Literature, 1999): Doubt , dissent and skepticism in the literary tradition of the medieval period

Patrick Baker (History, 2009): Illustrious men: Italian renaissance humanists on humanism

Timothy Baker (Religion, 2015): “Be You as Living Stones Built Up, A Spiritual House, A Holy Priesthood”: Cistercian Exegesis, Reforms, and the Construction of Holy Architectures

Abigail Balbale (History, 2011): Between Kings and Caliphs: Religion and Authority in Sharq al-Andalus, 542-640 AH/1145-1243 C.E.

Bridget Balint (Classics, 2002): Hildebert of Lavardin's "Liber de querimonia" in its cultural context

Henry Bayerle (Comparative Literature, 2004): Speakers in the Latin historical epics of twelfth-century Italy

Dianne Bazell (Religion, 1991): Christian diet: A case study using Arnald of Villanova's De esu carnium

Alexis Becker (English, 2015): Practical Georgics: Managing the Land in Medieval Britain

William Bennett (English, 1992): Interrupting the word: Mankind and the politics of the vernacular

Jessica Berenbeim (History of Art and Architecture, 2012): Art of Documentation: The Sherborne Missal and the Role of Documents in English Medieval Art

Robert Berkhofer (History, 1997): Monastic patrimony, management and accountability in Northern France, ca. 1000-1200

Persis Berlekamp (History of Art, 2003): Wonders and their images in late medieval Islamic culture: "the wonders of creation" in Fars and Iraq, 1280-1388

Gabriella Berzin (Near Eastern Languages, 2010): The Medieval Hebrew version of psychology in Avicenna's Salvation ( Al-Najāt )

Janna Bianchini (née Wasilewski) (History, 2007): Regina : The life of Berenguela of Castile, 1180-1246

Noël Bisson (Music, 1998): English polyphony for the Virgin Mary: The votive antiphon, 1430-1500

Josiah Blackmore (History, 1992): Fernão Lopes and the Writing of History in the Crónica de D. João I

James Blasina (Music, 2015): Music and Gender in the Medieval Cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria, c. 1050-1300

Emmanuel Bourbouhakis (Classics, 2006): "Not composed in a chance manner": The epitaphios for Manuel I Komnenos by Eustathius of Thessalonike: text, translation, commentary

Matthieu Boyd (Celtic, 2011): The source of enchantment: The Marvels of Rigomer ( Les Mervelles de Rigomer ) and the evolution of Celtic influence on medieval francophone storytelling

Nancy Breen (Celtic, 1999): Towards an edition of Di astud chirt ⁊ dligid

Benjamin Bruch (Celtic, 2005): Du gveras a.b.c/An pen can hanna yv d : Cornish verse forms and the evolution of Cornish prosody, c. 1350-1611

Christopher Cannon (English, 1993): The making of Chaucer's English: A study in the formation of a literary language

Nicola Carpentieri (NELC, 2012): The Poetics of Aging Spain and Sicily at the Twilight of Muslim Sovereignty

William Carroll (Germanic Languages, 1995): Latin education and secular German literature: An analysis of Latin grammar instruction and its influence on middle high German poets

Gary Cestaro (Romance Languages, 1990): The whip and the wet nurse: Dante's De vulgari eloquentia and the psychology of grammar in the Middle Ages

Kathryn Chadbourne (Celtic, 1999): The otherworld procession in Irish and Welsh literature and folklore

Christina Chance (Celtic, 2010): Imagining empire: Maxen Wledic, Arthur, and Charlemagne in Welsh literature after the Edwardian conquest

Horacio Chiong Rivero (Romance Languages, 2002): Maker of masks: Fray Antonio de Guevara's pseudo-historical fictionalizations

Jeffrey Cohen (English, 1992): The tradition of the giant in early England: A study of the monstrous in folklore, theology, history and literature

William Cole (Romance Languages, 1991): Romance to tragedy: A comparative study of the Tristan poems of Béroul and Gottfried

Jonathan Conant (History, 2004): Staying Roman: Vandals, Moors, and Byzantines in late antique North Africa, 400-700

Kassandra Conley (Celtic Languages, 2014): Looking towards India: Nativism and Orientalism in the Literature of Wales, 1300-1600

Alan Cooper (History, 1998): Obligation and jurisdiction: Roads and bridges in medieval England (c. 700-1300)

Michael Cooperson (NELC, 1994): The heirs of the prophets in classical Arabic biography

Jason Crawford (English, 2008): Personification and its discontents: Studies from Langland to Bunyan

Barbara Croken (NELC, 1990): Zabîd under the Rasulids of Yemen, 626-858 AH/ 1229-1454 AD

Michael Cuthbert (Music, 2006): Trecento fragments and polyphony beyond the codex

Philip Daileader (History, 1996): The medieval community of Perpignan, 1162-1397

Jennifer Davis (History, 2007): Patterns of Power: Charlemagne and the Invention of Medieval Rulership

Robert Davis (Religion, 2012): The Force of Union: Affect and Ascent in the Theology of Bonaventure

Anthony D'Elia (History, 2000): In praise of matrimony: Italian renaissance humanists on marriage and sexual pleasure

Susan Deskis (English, 1991): Proverbial backgrounds to the sententiae of Beowulf

Mark DeStephano (Romance Languages, 1995): Feudal relations in the Poema de mío Cid : Comparative perspectives in medieval Spanish and French epic

Alnoor Dhanani (History of Science, 1991): Kalām and Hellenistic cosmology: Minimal parts in Basrian Muʻtazilī atomism

Giorgio DiMauro (Slavic Languages, 2002): The furnace, the crown, and the serpent: Images of Babylon in Muscovite Rus'

Saskia Dirkse (Classics, 2015): The Great Mystery: Death, Memory and the Archiving of Monastic Culture in Late Antique Religious Tales

Rowan Dorin (History, 2015): Banishing Usury: The Expulsion of Foreign Moneylenders in Medieval Europe, 1200-1450

Carol Dover (Romance Languages, 1990): Nature, nurture and the hero: Narrating identity in the old French prose Lancelot

Simon Doubleday (History, 1996): The Laras: An aristocratic family in the kingdoms of Castile and León, 1075-1361

David Drogin (History of Art, 2003): Representations of Bentivoglio authority: Fifteenth-century painting and sculpture in the Bentivoglio Chapel, San Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna

Ivan Drpić (History of Art, 2011): Kosmos of verse: Epigram, art, and devotion in later Byzantium

Mary Dunn (Religion, 2008): Sainte-Anne-du-Petit-Cap: The making of an early modern shrine

Leslie Dunton-Downer (Comparative Literature, 1992): The obscene poetic self in Rutebeuf and Chaucer

Koray Durak (History, 2008): Commerce and networks of exchange between the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Near East from the early ninth century to the arrival of the Crusaders

Nadia El Cheikh (History, 1992): Byzantium viewed by the Arabs

Ahmed El Shamsy (Middle Eastern Studies, 2009): From tradition to law: The origins and early development of the Shāfi‘ī School of Law in ninth-century Egypt

Daphna Ephrat (NELC, 1993): The Sunni ʻulama ʾ of eleventh-century Baghdad and the transmission of knowledge: A social history

Charlene Eska (née Shipman) (Celtic, 2006): An edition of Cáin Lánamna : An Old Irish tract on marriage and divorce law

Pauline Eskenasy (NELC, 1991): Antony of Tagrit's Rhetoric book one: Introduction, partial translation, and commentary

Marilina Falzarano (Romance Languages, 1999): Il volgarizzamento dei seitte salmi penitenziali di Simone Da Cascina

Lianna Farber (English, 1998): Legitimacy in late medieval England

Feng Xiang (English, 1990): Chaucer and the Romaunt of the Rose : A new study in authorship

Justine Firnhaber-Baker (History, 2007): Guerram publice et palem faciendo : Local war and royal authority in late medieval southern France

Timothy Fitzgerald (Middle Eastern Studies, 2009): Ottoman methods of conquest: Legal imperialism and the city of Aleppo, 1480-1570

Hugh Fogarty (Celtic, 2005): A critical edition of the Middle Irish saga Aided Guill meic Carbada ocus Aided Gairb Glinni Rígi

Sheryl Forste-Gruppe (Comparative Literature, 1996): Signifying acts: Writing in the Middle English romances

Katherine Forsyth (Celtic, 1996): The Ogham inscriptions of Scotland: An edited corpus

Elizabeth Fowler (English, 1992): The contingencies of person: Studies in the poetic and legal conceits of early modern England

Shirin Fozi (History of Art, 2010): The body recast and revived: Figural tomb sculpture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1080--1160

Brian Frykenberg (Celtic, 1994): Poetry of Suibne Geilt and St. Mo-Ling from Brussels Bibliothèque Royale MS. 5100-04

Bruce Fudge (NELC, 2003): The major Qurʼān commentary of al-Ṭabrisī (d. 548/1154)

John Gagné (History, 2008): French Milan: Citizens, occupiers, and the Italian Wars, 1499-1529

Sophia Georgiopoulou (Classics, 1990): Theodore II Dukas Laskaris (1222-1258) as an author and an intellectual of the XIIIth century

Kelly Gibson (History, 2011): Rewriting History: Carolingian Reform and Controversy in Biographies of Saints

Clare Gillis (History, 2010): Illicit sex, Unfaithful Translations: Latin, Old High German and the Birth of a New Sexual Morality in the Early Middle Ages

Luis Girón Negrón (Religion, 1997): Alfonso de la Torre's Visión deleytable : Philosophical rationalism and the religious imagination in fifteenth-century Spain

Roberto Gonzalez-Casanovas (Romance Languages, 1990): Predicación y Narrativa en Ramón Llull: De Imagen a Semejanza en Blanquerna

Jennifer Gordon (History, 2014): Obeying Those in Authority: The Hidden Political Message in Twelver Exegesis

Sara Gorman (English, 2013): Transformative Allegory: Imagination from Alan of Lille to Spenser

Margaret Marion Gower (Religion, 2015): The Heart of Peace: Christine de Pizan and Christian Theology

Stefanie Goyette (Romance Languages, 2012): Indiscriminate Bodies: The Old French Fabliaux in Relation to Thirteenth-Century Medical and Religious Cultures

Rachel Goshgarian (History, 2008): Beyond the social and the spiritual: Redefining the urban confraternities of late medieval Anatolia

Jeffrey Gross (English, 1991): "Such stuff as dreams are made on": The poetics of narrative voice in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess

Rosemary Hale (Religion, 1992): Imitatio Mariae : Motherhood motifs in late medieval German spirituality

Leor Halevi (Middle Eastern Studies, 2002): Muhammad 's grave: Death, ritual and society in the early Islamic world

Cynthia Hall (History of Art, 2002): Treasury book of the passion: Word and image in the Schatzbehalter

Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch (History, 1998): Family, property, and power: Women in medieval Montpellier, 985-1213

John Harkness (Linguistics, 1991): An approach to the metrical behavior of Old English verbs

Kyle Harper (History, 2007): Slavery in the late ancient Mediterranean

Margaret Healy-Varley (English, 2011): Anselm's fictions and the literary afterlife of the Proslogion

Erik Heinrichs (History, 2009): The plague cure: Physicians, clerics and the reform of healing in Germany, 1473--1650

Eva Helfenstein (History of Art, 2012): The Goblet of Philip the Good: Precious Vessels at the Court of Burgundy

Georgia Henley (Celtic Languages and Literatures, 2017): Monastic Manuscripts of the Anglo-Welsh March: A Study in Literary Transmission

Samantha Herrick (History, 2002): Imagining the sacred past in hagiography of early Normandy: The Vita Taurini , Vita Vigoris and Passio Nicasii

Seth Hindin (History of Art, 2011): History and ethnic commitment in the visual culture of medieval Bohemia, ca. 1200-ca. 1420

Elisabeth Hodges (Romance Languages, 2002): City views: Writing and the topography of Frenchness and the Renaissance

Megan Holmes (History of Art, 1993): Frate Filippo Di Tommaso Dipintore : Fra Filippo Lippi and Florentine Renaissance religious practices

Katharine Horsley (English, 2004): Poetic visions of London civic ceremony, 1360-1440

Gregory Hutcheson (Romance Languages, 1993): Marginality and empowerment in Baena's Cancionero

John Hutton (History of Art, 1992): Rural buildings in Netherlandish painting, ca. 1420-1570

Sarah Insley (Classics, 2011): Constructing a sacred center: Constantinople as a holy city in early Byzantine literature

Kathryn Izzo (Celtic, 2007): The Old Irish hymns of the Liber Hymnorum : A study of vernacular hymnody in medieval Ireland

Angela Jaffray (NELC, 2000): At the threshold of philosophy: A study of al-Fārābī's introductory works on logic

Paul Jefferiss (Celtic, 1991): Literary theory and criticism in medieval Ireland

Geraldine Johnson (History of Art, 1994): In the eye of the beholder: Donatello's sculpture in the life of Renaissance Italy

Aled Jones (Celtic, 2011): Ol wrth ol attor ar eu hennyd: Political Prophecy in the Earliest Welsh Manuscripts, c. 1250-c. 1540

Lars Jones (History of Art, 1999): Visio divina, exegesis, and beholder-image relationships in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Indications from donor figure representations

Danielle Joyner (History of Art, 2007): A timely history: Images and texts in the Hortus Deliciarum

Jakub Kabala (History, 2014): Imaginging Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish, Roman and Byzantine Concepts of Space and Power in the Slavlands, c.750-900

Kathryn Karczewska (Romance Languages, 1996): In days of future past: Prophecy and knowledge in the French vulgate grail legends

Dimitris Kastritsis (Middle Eastern Studies, 2005): The Ottoman interregnum (1402-1413): Politics and narratives of dynastic succession

David Keck (History, 1992): The angelology of Saint Bonaventure and the harvest of medieval angelology

Craig Kennedy (History, 1994): The Juchids of Muscovy: A Study of Personal Ties Between Émigré Tatar Dynasts and the Muscovite Grand Princes in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Alexander Key (NELC, 2012): A Linguistic Frame of Mind: ar-Ragib al-Isfahani and What it Meant To Be Ambiguous

Elaheh Kheirandish (History of Science, 1991): The medieval Arabic tradition of Euclid's Optika

Nuha Khoury (History of Art, 1992): The mihrab concept: Palatial themes in early Islamic religious architecture

Ji-Hyun Kim (Romance Languages, 2005): For a modern medieval literature: Gaston Paris, courtly love, and the demands of modernity

Margaret Kim (English, 2000): Visions of theocratics: The discourse of politics and the primacy of religion in Piers Plowman

Bettina Kimpton (Celtic, 2006): An edition of Brislech mór maige murthemni

Irit Kleiman (Romance Languages, 2003): Traitor, author, text: Four late medieval narratives of betrayal

† Elka Klein (History, 1996): Power and patrimony: The Jewish community of Barcelona, 1050-1250

Yaron Klein (NELC, 2009): Musical instruments as objects of meaning in classical Arabic poetry and philosophy

Jennifer Knight (Celtic, 2011): Self and society in early Irish literature

Adam Kosto (History, 1996): Making and keeping agreements in medieval Catalonia, 1000-1200

Thomas Kozachek (Music, 1995): The repertory of chant for dedicating churches in the Middle Ages: Music, liturgy, and ritual

Aden Kumler (History of Art, 2007): Visual translation, visible theology: Illuminated compendia of spiritual instruction in late medieval France and England

Demetrios Kyritses (History, 1997): The Byzantine aristocracy in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries

Justin Lake (Classics, 2008): Rhetorical and narrative studies on the Historiae of Richer of Saint-Remi

Christian Lang (Religion, 2006): Executing justice in Sunnī Islam: Historical, poetical, eschatological and legal dimensions of punishment under the Saljūqs (1055-1194 CE)

Heather Larson (Celtic, 1999): The Women's Voice in Gaelic Poetry

Rena Lauer (History, 2014): Venice’s Colonial Jews: Community, Identity, and Justice in Late Medieval Venetian Crete

Marc Laureys (Classics, 1992): An edition and study of Giovanni Cavallini's Polistoria de virtutibus et dotibus Romanorum

Eric Lawee (NELC, 1993): "Inheritance of the fathers": Aspects of Isaac Abarbanel's stance towards tradition

Lisa Lawrence (Religion, 2002): The Irish and the incarnation: Images of Christ in the Old Irish poems of Blathmac

F. Dominic Longo (Religion, 2011): Spiritual Grammar: A Comparative Theological Study of Jean Gerson's Donatus moralizatus and Abd al Karim al-Qushayri's Nahw al-qulub

William Layher (Germanic Languages, 1999): Queen Eufemia's Legacy: Middle Low German Literary Culture, Royal Patronage, and the First Old Swedish Epic (1301)

Anne Lea (Celtic, 1995): Contextualizing the Gorhoffeddau : A Study in the Intellectual Background of Two Medieval Welsh Poems

Christine Lee (Comparative Literature, 2011): Renaissance Romance: Redrawing the Boundaries of Fiction

Isabelle Charlotte Levy (Comparative Literature, 2014): The Poetics of Love in Prosimetra across the Medieval Mediterranean

Christina Linklater (Music, 2006): Popularity, Presentation and the Chansonnier Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Benjamin Liu (Romance Languages, 1996): Equivocal Poetics and Cultural Ambiguity in the Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer

Yan Liu (History of Science, 2015): Toxic Cures: Poisons and Medicines in Medieval China

Christopher Livanos (Comparative Literature, 2001): Greek and Latin traditions in the work of George Gennadios Scholarios

Sally Livingston (Comparative Literature, 2008): Owning property, being property: Medieval and modern women shape the narratives of marriage

Diana Luft (Celtic, 2004): Medieval Welsh translation: The case of Ymddiddan Selyf a Marcwlff

Bernard Lumpkin (Comparative Literature, 1999): The Making of a Medieval Outlaw: Code and Community in the Robin Hood Legend

Amanda Luyster (History of Art, 2003): Courtly Images Far From Court: The Family Saint-Floret, Representation, and Romance

Evan MacCarthy (Music, 2010): Music and Learning in Early Renaissance Ferrara, c. 1430-1470

Patricia Malone (Celtic, 2009): "Entirely Outside the World": Rhetoric, Legitimacy, and Identity in the Biography of Gruffudd ap Cynan

† Laurance Maney (Celtic, 1999): High-Kings and Holy Men: Hiberno-Latin Hagiography and the Uí Néill Kingship, ca. 650-750

Craig Martin (History of Science, 2002): Interpretation and Utility: The Renaissance Commentary Tradition on Aristotle's Meteorologica IV

Fay Martineau (Divinity, 2006): Envisioning Heaven with Faith, Imagination, and Historical relevance: Selected Writings from Early and Medieval Christianity

Zachary Matus (Religion, 2010): Heaven in a Bottle: Franciscan Apocalypticism and the Elixir, 1250-1360

Maria Mavroudi (Byzantine Studies, 1998): The so-called Oneirocriticon of Achmet: A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation and its Arabic Sources

Anne McClanan (History of Art, 1998): Empress, Image, State: Imperial Women in the Early Medieval World

Nancy McKinley (English, 1991): Poetry vs. Paraphrase: The Artistry of Genesis A

James McMenamin (Romance Languages, 2008): The Sequence "Beginning-Middle-End," Dante and Petrarch

Joseph McMullen (Celtic Languages and English, 2015): Echoes of Early Irish Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes

Lawrence Morris (Comparative Literature, 2002): Veritas and literary fiction in the hagiography of the pre-Norman British Isles

Paula Molloy (Anthropology, 1993): Cod , commerce, and climate: A case study from late medieval/early modern Iceland

Alexander More (History, 2014): At the Origins of Welfare Policy: Law and the Economy in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean (AD 1150-1350)

Elizabeth Mozzillo-Howell (Romance Languages, 1998): Dante 's Art of Reason: A Study of Medieval Logic and Semantics in the Monarchy

Aisha Musa (NELC, 2004): A Study of Early and Contemporary Muslim Attitudes toward Hadīth as Scripture with Translation of al-Shāfi ʹ ī's Kitāb Jimāʹ al-ʹIlm

Emire Muslu (Middle Eastern Studies, 2007): Ottoman -Mamluk Relations: Diplomacy and perceptions

Erez Naaman (NELC, 2009): Literature and literary people at the court of Al-Ṣāḥib Ibn 'Abbād

Alexander Nagel (History of Art, 1993): Michelangelo , Raphael and the altarpiece tradition

Rae Ann Nager (Comparative Literature, 1990): The Poetria nova as a Poetics: Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Lex sit danda poetis

Nevra Necipoglu (History, 1990): Byzantium Between the Ottomans and the Latins: A Study of Political Attitudes in the Late Palaiologan Period, 1370-1460

Leonard Neidorf (English, 2014): The Origins of Beowulf: Studies in Textual Criticism and Literary History

Ingrid Nelson (English, 2010): The Lyric in England, 1200-1400

Mark Nevins (English, 1993): The Literature of Curiosity: Geographical and Exploration Writings in Early Northern Europe

Lena Norrman (Germanic Languages, 2006): Women's Voices, Power, and Performance in Viking Age Scandinavia

Barnaby Nygren (History of Art, 1999): The Monumental Saint's Tomb in Italy, 1260-1520

Joshua O'Driscoll (History of Art, 2015): Image and Inscription in the Painterly Manuscripts from Ottonian Cologne

Lisi Oliver (Linguistics, 1995): The language of the early English laws

Katharine Olson (Celtic, 2008): Fire from heaven: Popular religion and society in Wales, c. 1400--1603

Julie Orlemanski (English, 2010): Symptomatic subjects: Diagnosis, narrative, and embodiment in Middle English literature

Ada Palmer (History, 2009): Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

Cameron Partridge (Divinity, 2008): Transfiguring sexual difference in Maximus the Confessor

Stephen Partridge (English, 1992): Glosses in the manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales : An edition and commentary

Gregory Pass (History, 1996): Source studies in the early secular lordship of the bishops of Mende

Jennifer Paxton (History, 1999): Charter and chronicle in twelfth-century England: The house-histories of the Fenland abbeys

Bissera Pentcheva (History of Art, 2001): Images and icons of the virgin and their public in middle Byzantine Constantinople

Kristin Peterson (History of Science, 1993): Translatio libri Avicennae De viribus cordis et medicinis cordialibus Arnaldi de Villanova

Susan Phillips (English, 1999): Gossip's work: the problems and pleasures of not-so-idle talk in late medieval England

Simone Pinet (Romance Languages, 2002): Archipelagoes: insularity and fiction in medieval and early modern Spain

Prydwyn Piper (Celtic, 2001): Mabinogi Iessu Grist : An edition and study of the Middle Welsh translations of the apocryphal Latin Pseudo-Matthaei evangelium

Amy Powell (History of Art, 2004): Repeated forms: Rogier van der Weyden's Descent from the Cross and its "copies"

Francisco Prado-Vilar (History of Art, 2002): In the shadow of the Gothic idol: The Cantigas de Santa Maria and the imagery of love and conversion

Debra Prager (Germanic Languages, 2003): Orienting the self: Encounters with the Eastern other in German narrative fiction

Jennifer Pruitt (History of Art, 2009): Fatimid architectural patronage and changing sectarian identities (969-1021)

Ghada Qaddumi (NELC, 1990): A medieval Islamic book of gifts and treasures: Translation, annotation, and commentary on the Kitāb al-Hadāyā wa al-tuḥaf

Tahera Qutbuddin (NELC, 1999): Al-Mua̓yyad fī al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī: Founder of a new tradition of Fatimid Dawa poetry

Lynn Ramey (Romance Languages, 1997): Christians and Saracens: Imagination and cultural interaction in the French Middle Ages

Emmanuel Ramírez-Nieves (Comparative Literature, 2015): Repenting Roguery: Penance in the Spanish Picaresque Novel and the Arabic and Hebrew Maqama

Chase Robinson (History, 1992): The early Islamic history of Mosul

James Robinson (NELC, 2002): Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Commentary on Ecclesiastes

Nicolas Rofougaran (History of Science, 2000): Avicenna and Aquinas on individualism

Maria Roglieri (Romance Languages, 1994): "Uror, et in uaco pectore regnat amor": The influence of Ovid's amatory works on Dante's Vita nuova and Commedia

Panagiotis Roilos (Classics, 1999): Generic modulations in the medieval Greek learned novels

Maria Romagnoli (Romance Languages, 1996): Andreas Capellanus: Issues of identity, reception and audience

John Romano (History, 2007): Ritual and society in early medieval Rome

Elizabeth Ross (History of Art, 2004): Picturing knowledge and experience in the early printed book: Reuwich's illustrations for Breydenbach's Pereginatio in terram sanctam (1486)

Gidon Rothstein (NELC, 2003): Writing Midrash Avot: The Change That Three Fifteenth Century Exegetes Introduced to Avot Interpretation, Its Impact and Origins

Leyla Rouhi (Romance Languages, 1995): A Comparative Typology of the Medieval Go-Between in Light of Western-European, Near-Eastern, and Spanish Cases

Steven Rozenski (English, 2012): Henry Suso and Richard Rolle: Devotional Mobility and Translation in Late-Medieval England and Germany

Elisha Russ-Fishbane (NELC, 2009): Between Politics and Piety: Abraham Maimonides and his Times

Stephen Ryan (NELC, 2001): Studies in Bar Salibi's Commentary on the Psalms

Claire Sahlin (Religion, 1996): Birgitta of Sweden and the Voice of Prophecy: A Study of Gender and Religious Authority in the Later Middle Ages

Elizabeth Scala (English, 1994): Absent Narratives: Medieval Literature and Textual Repression

Rebecca Schoff (English, 2004): Freedom from the Press: Reading and Writing in Late Medieval England

Iklil Selcuk (Middle Eastern Studies, 2009): State and Society in the Marketplace: A Study of Late Fifteenth-Century Bursa

Mark Sendor (NELC, 1994): The Emergence of the Provençal Kabbalah: Rabbi Isaac the Blind's Commentary on Sefer Yeẓirah

Daniel Sheffield (NELC, 2012): In the Path of the Prophet: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Life of Zarathustra in Islamic Iran and Western India

Maryann Shenoda (History, 2010): Lamenting Islam, Imagining Persecution: Copto-Arabic Opposition to Islamization and Arabization in Fatimid Egypt (969-1171 CE)

James Skedros (Divinity, 1996): St. Demetrios of Thessaloniki: Civic Patron and Divine Protector (4th-7th c. CE)

Ewa Slojka (Comparative Literature, 2006): The Pious Knight: Crusading Ideals, Purgatory, and Grail Romances

Rachel Smith (Religion, 2012): Exemplarity and its Limits in the Hagiographical Corpus of Thomas of Cantimpré

Laura Smoller (History, 1991): History, prophecy, and the stars: The Christian astrology of Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420

Theoharis Stavrides (History, 1996): The Ottoman Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelovic (1453-1474)

Daniel Stein Kokin (History, 2006): The Hebrew question in the Italian Renaissance: Linguistic, cultural, and mystical perspectives

Gregg Stern (Religion, 1995): Menahem Ha-Meiri and the second controversy over philosophy

Kristen Stilt (Middle Eastern Studies, 2004): The Muḥtasib, Law, and Society in Early Mamluk Cairo and Fustat (648-802/1250-1400)

David Strain (English, 1992): Occasional poetics: The politics and poetics of fiction in Chaucer's House of Fame , Parliament of Fowls , and Legend of Good Women

Anne Stone (Music, 1994): Writing rhythm in late medieval Italy: Notation and musical style in the manuscript Modena, Biblioteca estense, Alpha.M.5.24

Justin Stover (Classics, 2011): Reading Plato in the twelfth century: A study on the varieties of Plato's reception in the Latin west before 1215

Carol Symes (History, 1999): The makings of a medieval stage: Theatre and the culture of performance in thirteenth-century Arras

Emily Tai (History, 1996): Honor among Thieves: Piracy, Restitution, and Reprisal in Genoa, Venice, and the crown of Catalonia-Aragon, 1339-1417

Adena Tanenbaum (NELC, 1993): Poetry and Philosophy: The Idea of the Soul in Andalusian Piyyut

Nathaniel Taylor (History, 1995): The Will and Society in Medieval Catalonia and Languedoc, 800-1200

Anne Thayer (Religion, 1996): Penitence and Preaching on the Eve of the Reformation: A Comparative Overview from Frequently Printed Model Sermon Collections, 1450-1520

Lucille Thibodeau (Comparative Literature, 1990): The Relation of Peter Abelard's Planctus Dinae to Biblical Sources and Exegetic Tradition: A Historical and Textual Study

Jane Tolmie (English, 2001): Persuasion: Blood-feud, Romance and the Disenfranchised

Timothy Tomasik (Romance Languages, 2003): Textual Tastes: The Invention of Culinary Literature in Early Modern France

Deborah Tor (Middle Eastern Studies, 2002): From holy warriors to chivalric order: The Ayyars in the eastern Islamic world, A.D. 800-1055

Nicolette Trahoulia (History of Art, 1997): The Venice Alexander romance, Hellenic Institute codex Gr. 5: A study of Alexander the Great as an imperial paradigm in Byzantine art and literature

Nicolas Trépanier (History, 2008): Food as a window into daily life in fourteenth century Central Anatolia

Elly Truitt (History of Science, 2007): From magic to mechanism: Medieval automata, 1100—1550

Ece Turnator (History, 2013): Turning the Economic Tables in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Latin Crusader Empire and the Transformation of the Byzantine Economy, ca. 1100-1400

Raquel Ukeles (Religion, 2006): Innovation or Deviation: Exploring the Boundaries of Islamic Devotional Law

Phillip Usher (Romance Languages, 2004): The Holy Lands in Early Modern Literature: Negotiations of Christian Geography and Textual Space

Claire Valente (History, 1997): Generations of Revolt: Reform, Rebellion, and Political Society in Later Medieval England, 1258-1415

Bruce Venarde (History, 1992): Women, Monasticism, and Social Change: The Foundation of Nunneries in Western Europe, c. 890-c. 1215

Paolo de Ventura (Romance Languages, 2003): Dramma e Dialogo nella Commedia di Dante

Marco Antonio Viniegra (History of Science, 2013): Neoclassical Medicine: Transformations in the Hippocratic Medical Tradition from Galen to the Articella

Nargis Virani (NELC, 1999): "I am the nightingale of the merciful": Macaronic or Upside-down? The mulammaʻāt of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Alicia Walker (History of Art, 2004): Exotic Elements in Middle Byzantine Secular Art and Aesthetics, 843-1204 C.E.

Laura Wang (English, 2014): Natural Law and the Law of Nature in Early British Beast Literature

Jeffrey Webb (History, 2009): Cathedrals of Words: Bishops and the Deeds of their Predecessors in Lotharingia, 950-1100

Jessica Weiss (Comparative Literature, 2003): Herbert of Bosham's Liber melorum : Literature and Sacred Sciences in the Twelfth Century

Amanda Wesner (Music, 1992): The Chansons of Loyset Compère: Authenticity and Stylistic Development

Dan Wiley (Celtic, 2000): An Edition of Aided Diarmata meic Cerbaill from the Book of Uí Maine

Ryan Wilkinson (History, 2015): The Last Horizons of Roman Gaul: Communication, Community, and Power at the End of Antiquity

Emily Wood (History, 2009): The Execution of Papal Justice in Northern France, 1145-1198

Jeffrey Woolf (NELC, 1991): The Life and Responsa of Rabbi Joseph Colon b. Solomon Trabotto (Maharik)

Annelies Wouters (Classics, 2003): The Meaning of Formal Structure in Peter Abelard's Collationes

Lisa Wurtele (née Karp) (NELC, 1992): Sahl b. Hârǔn: The man and his contribution to 'adab

Suzan Yalman (History of Art, 2011): Building the Sultanate of Rum: Memory, urbanism and mysticism in the architectural patronage of 'Ala al-Din Kayqubad (r. 1220-1237)

Hikmet Yaman (NELC, 2008): The Concept of Hikmah in Early Islamic Thought

Julian Yolles (Classics, 2015): Latin Literature and Frankish Culture in the Crusader States (1098-1187)

Anna Zayaruznaya (Music, 2010): Form and Idea in the Ars Nova Motet

Sarah Zeiser (Celtic Languages, 2012): Latinity, Manuscripts, and the Rhetoric of Conquest in Late-Eleventh-Century Wales

Dissertations by Ph.D. - Granting Department

Anthropology

Paula Molloy (1993): Cod , commerce, and climate: A case study from late medieval/early modern Iceland

Committee on Byzantine Studies

Maria Mavroudi (1998): The so-called Oneirocriticon of Achmet: A Byzantine book on dream interpretation and its Arabic sources

Celtic Languages and Literatures

Paul Jefferiss (1991): Literary theory and criticism in medieval Ireland

Kaarina Hollo (1992): A critical edition of Fled Bricrenn ocus loinges mac nDuíl Dermait

Brian Frykenberg (1994): Poetry of Suibne Geilt and St. Mo-Ling from Brussels Bibliothèque Royale MS. 5100-04

Anne Lea (1995): Contextualizing the Gorhoffeddau : A study in the intellectual background of two medieval Welsh poems

Katherine Forsyth (1996): The Ogham inscriptions of Scotland: An edited corpus

Barbara Hillers (1997): The medieval Irish Odyssey Merugud Uilixis meic Leirtis

Nancy Breen (1999): Towards an edition of Di astud chirt ⁊ dligid

Kathryn Chadbourne (1999): The otherworld procession in Irish and Welsh literature and folklore

Heather Larson (1999): The women's voice in Gaelic poetry

† Laurance Maney (1999): High-kings and holy men: Hiberno-Latin hagiography and the Uí Néill kingship, ca. 650-750

Dan Wiley (2000): An edition of Aided Diarmata meic Cerbaill from the Book of Uí Maine

Prydwyn Piper (2001): Mabinogi Iessu Grist : An edition and study of the Middle Welsh translations of the apocryphal Latin Pseudo-Matthaei evangelium

Diana Luft (2004): Medieval Welsh translation: the case of Ymddiddan Selyf a Marcwlff

Benjamin Bruch (2005): Du gveras a.b.c/An pen can hanna yv d : Cornish verse forms and the evolution of Cornish prosody, c. 1350-1611

Hugh Fogarty (2005): A critical edition of the Middle Irish saga Aided Guill meic Carbada ocus Aided Gairb Glinni Rígi

Charlene Eska (née Shipman) (2006): An edition of Cáin Lánamna : an Old Irish tract on marriage and divorce law

Bettina Kimpton (2006): An edition of Brislech mór maige murthemni

Kathryn Izzo (2007): The Old Irish hymns of the Liber Hymnorum : A study of vernacular hymnody in medieval Ireland

Katharine Olson (2008): Fire from heaven: Popular religion and society in Wales, c. 1400-1603

Patricia Malone (2009): "Entirely outside the world": Rhetoric, legitimacy, and identity in the biography of Gruffudd ap Cynan

Christina Chance (2010): Imagining empire: Maxen Wledic, Arthur, and Charlemagne in Welsh literature after the Edwardian conquest

Matthieu Boyd (2011): The source of enchantment: The Marvels of Rigomer ( Les Mervelles de Rigomer ) and the evolution of Celtic influence on medieval francophone storytelling

Aled Jones (2011): Ol wrth ol attor ar eu hennyd: Political Prophecy in the Earliest Welsh Manuscripts, c. 1250-c. 1540

Jennifer Knight (2011): Self and society in early Irish literature

Panagiotis Agapitos (1990): Narrative structure in the Byzantine vernacular romances: A textual and literary study of Kallimachos , Belthandros and Libistros

Sophia Georgiopoulou (1990): Theodore II Dukas Laskaris (1222-1258) as an author and an intellectual of the XIIIth century

Marc Laureys (1992): An edition and study of Giovanni Cavallini's Polistoria de virtutibus et dotibus Romanorum

Panagiotis Roilos (1999): Generic modulations in the medieval Greek learned novels

Bridget Balint (2002): Hildebert of Lavardin's "Liber de querimonia" in its cultural context

Annelies Wouters (2003): The meaning of formal structure in Peter Abelard's Collationes

Emmanuel Bourbouhakis (2006): "Not composed in a chance manner": The epitaphios for Manuel I Komnenos by Eustathius of Thessalonike: text, translation, commentary

Justin Lake (2008): Rhetorical and narrative studies on the Historiae of Richer of Saint-Remi

Sarah Insley (2011): Constructing a sacred center: Constantinople as a holy city in early Byzantine literature

Justin Stover (2011): Reading Plato in the twelfth century: A study on the varieties of Plato's reception in the Latin west before 1215

Comparative Literature

Rae Ann Nager (1990): The Poetria nova as a poetics: Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Lex sit danda poetis

Lucille Thibodeau (1990): The relation of Peter Abelard's Planctus Dinae to biblical sources and exegetic tradition: A historical and textual study

Leslie Dunton-Downer (1992): The obscene poetic self in Rutebeuf and Chaucer

Sheryl Forste-Gruppe (1996): Signifying acts: Writing in the Middle English romances

Fatemeh Azinfar (1999): Doubt , dissent and skepticism in the literary tradition of the medieval period

Bernard Lumpkin (1999): The making of a medieval outlaw: Code and community in the Robin Hood legend

Christopher Livanos (2001): Greek and Latin traditions in the work of George Gennadios Scholarios

Lawrence Morris (2002): Veritas and literary fiction in the hagiography of the pre-Norman British Isles

Jessica Weiss (2003): Herbert of Bosham's Liber melorum : Literature and sacred sciences in the twelfth century

Henry Bayerle (2004): Speakers in the Latin historical epics of twelfth-century Italy

Ewa Slojka (2006): The pious knight: Crusading ideals, purgatory, and grail romances

Sally Livingston (2008): Owning property, being property: Medieval and modern women shape the narratives of marriage

Divinity School

James Skedros (1996): St. Demetrios of Thessaloniki: Civic patron and divine protector (4th-7th c. CE)

Fay Martineau (2006): Envisioning heaven with faith, imagination, and historical relevance: Selected writings from early and medieval Christianity

Cameron Partridge (2008): Transfiguring sexual difference in Maximus the Confessor

English Language and Literature

Feng Xiang (1990): Chaucer and the Romaunt of the Rose : A new study in authorship

Susan Deskis (1991): Proverbial backgrounds to the sententiae of Beowulf

Jeffrey Gross (1991): "Such stuff as dreams are made on": The poetics of narrative voice in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess

Nancy McKinley (1991): Poetry vs. paraphrase: The artistry of Genesis A

William Bennett (1992): Interrupting the word: Mankind and the politics of the vernacular

Jeffrey Cohen (1992): The tradition of the giant in early England: A study of the monstrous in folklore, theology, history and literature

Elizabeth Fowler (1992): The contingencies of person: Studies in the poetic and legal conceits of early modern England

Stephen Partridge (1992): Glosses in the manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales : An edition and commentary

David Strain (1992): Occasional poetics: The politics and poetics of fiction in Chaucer's House of Fame , Parliament of Fowls , and Legend of Good Women

Christopher Cannon (1993): The making of Chaucer's English: A study in the formation of a literary language

Mark Nevins (1993): The literature of curiosity: Geographical and exploration writings in early northern Europe

Elizabeth Scala (1994): Absent narratives: Medieval literature and textual repression

Lianna Farber (1998): Legitimacy in late medieval England

Susan Phillips (1999): Gossip's work: The problems and pleasures of not-so-idle talk in late medieval England

Margaret Kim (2000): Visions of theocratics: The discourse of politics and the primacy of religion in Piers Plowman

Jane Tolmie (2001): Persuasion: Blood-feud, romance and the disenfranchised

Katharine Horsley (2004): Poetic visions of London civic ceremony, 1360-1440

Rebecca Schoff (2004): Freedom from the press: Reading and writing in late medieval England

Jason Crawford (2008): Personification and its discontents: Studies from Langland to Bunyan

Julie Orlemanski (2010): Symptomatic subjects: Diagnosis, narrative, and embodiment in Middle English literature

Ingrid Nelson (2010): The lyric in England, 1200-1400

Margaret Healy-Varley (2011): Anselm's fictions and the literary afterlife of the Proslogion

Germanic Languages and Literatures

William Carroll (1995): Latin education and secular German literature: An analysis of Latin grammar instruction and its influence on middle high German poets

William Layher (1999): Queen Eufemia's legacy: Middle low German literary culture, royal patronage, and the first old Swedish epic (1301)

Debra Prager (2003): Orienting the self: Encounters with the Eastern other in German narrative fiction

Lena Norrman (2006): Women's voices, power, and performance in Viking Age Scandinavia

Nevra Necipoglu (1990): Byzantium between the Ottomans and the Latins: A study of political attitudes in the late Palaiologan period, 1370-1460

Laura Smoller (1991): History, prophecy, and the stars: The Christian astrology of Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420

Josiah Blackmore (1992): Fernão Lopes and the writing of history in the Crónica de D. João I

Nadia El Cheikh (1992): Byzantium viewed by the Arabs

David Keck (1992): The angelology of Saint Bonaventure and the harvest of medieval angelology

Chase Robinson (1992): The early Islamic history of Mosul

Bruce Venarde (1992): Women, monasticism, and social change: The foundation of nunneries in Western Europe, c. 890-c. 1215

Craig Kennedy (1994): The Juchids of Muscovy: A study of personal ties between émigré Tatar dynasts and the Muscovite grand princes in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

Nathaniel Taylor (1995): The will and society in medieval Catalonia and Languedoc, 800-1200

Philip Daileader (1996): The medieval community of Perpignan, 1162-1397

† Elka Klein (1996): Power and patrimony: The Jewish community of Barcelona, 1050-1250

Adam Kosto (1996): Making and keeping agreements in medieval Catalonia, 1000-1200

Gregory Pass (1996): Source studies in the early secular lordship of the bishops of Mende

Theoharis Stavrides (1996): The Ottoman Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelovic (1453-1474)

Emily Tai (1996): Honor among thieves: Piracy, restitution, and reprisal in Genoa, Venice, and the crown of Catalonia-Aragon, 1339-1417

Robert Berkhofer (1997): Monastic patrimony, management and accountability in Northern France, ca. 1000-1200

Demetrios Kyritses (1997): The Byzantine aristocracy in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries

Claire Valente (1997): Generations of revolt: Reform, rebellion, and political society in later medieval England, 1258-1415

Alan Cooper (1998): Obligation and jurisdiction: Roads and bridges in medieval England (c. 700-1300)

Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch (1998): Family, property, and power: Women in medieval Montpellier, 985-1213

Jennifer Paxton (1999): Charter and chronicle in twelfth-century England: The house-histories of the Fenland abbeys

Carol Symes (1999): The makings of a medieval stage: Theatre and the culture of performance in thirteenth-century Arras

Anthony D'Elia (2000): In praise of matrimony: Italian renaissance humanists on marriage and sexual pleasure

Dimiter Angelov (2002): Imperial ideology and political thought in Byzantium, 1204-ca. 1330

Samantha Herrick (2002): Imagining the sacred past in hagiography of early Normandy: The Vita Taurini , Vita Vigoris and Passio Nicasii

Jonathan Conant (2004): Staying Roman: Vandals, Moors, and Byzantines in late antique North Africa, 400-700

Zayde Antrim (2005): Place and belonging in medieval Syria, 6th/12th to 8th/14th centuries

Daniel Stein Kokin (2006): The Hebrew question in the Italian Renaissance: Linguistic, cultural, and mystical perspectives

Janna Bianchini (née Wasilewski) (2007): Regina : The life of Berenguela of Castile, 1180--1246

Jennifer Davis (2007): Patterns of power: Charlemagne and the invention of medieval rulership

Justine Firnhaber-Baker (2007): Guerram publice et palem faciendo : Local war and royal authority in late medieval southern France

Kyle Harper (2007): Slavery in the late ancient Mediterranean

John Romano (2007): Ritual and society in early medieval Rome

Koray Durak (2008): Commerce and networks of exchange between the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Near East from the early ninth century to the arrival of the Crusaders

John Gagné (2008): French Milan: Citizens, occupiers, and the Italian Wars, 1499-1529

Rachel Goshgarian (2008): Beyond the social and the spiritual: Redefining the urban confraternities of late medieval Anatolia

Patrick Baker (2009): Illustrious men: Italian renaissance humanists on humanism

Erik Heinrichs (2009): The plague cure: Physicians, clerics and the reform of healing in Germany, 1473--1650

Ada Palmer (2009): Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

Jeffrey Webb (2009): Cathedrals of words: Bishops and the deeds of their predecessors in Lotharingia, 950-1100

Emily Wood (2009): The execution of papal justice in northern France, 1145-1198

Maryann Shenoda (2010): Lamenting Islam, imagining persecution: Copto-Arabic opposition to islamization and arabization in Fatimid Egypt (969-1171 CE)

Kelly Gibson (2011): Rewriting history: Carolingian reform and controversy in biographies of saints

History of Art and Architecture

John Hutton (1992): Rural buildings in Netherlandish painting, ca. 1420-1570

Nuha Khoury (1992): The mihrab concept: Palatial themes in early Islamic religious architecture

Megan Holmes (1993): Frate Filippo Di Tommaso Dipintore : Fra Filippo Lippi and Florentine Renaissance religious practices

Alexander Nagel (1993): Michelangelo , Raphael and the altarpiece tradition

Geraldine Johnson (1994): In the eye of the beholder: Donatello's sculpture in the life of Renaissance Italy

Nicolette Trahoulia (1997): The Venice Alexander romance, Hellenic Institute codex Gr. 5: A study of Alexander the Great as an imperial paradigm in Byzantine art and literature

Anne McClanan (1998): Empress, image, state: Imperial women in the early medieval world

Lars Jones (1999): Visio divina, exegesis, and beholder-image relationships in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Indications from donor figure representations

Barnaby Nygren (1999): The monumental saint's tomb in Italy, 1260-1520

Bissera Pentcheva (2001): Images and icons of the Virgin and their public in middle Byzantine Constantinople

Cynthia Hall (2002): Treasury book of the passion: Word and image in the Schatzbehalter

Francisco Prado-Vilar (2002): In the shadow of the Gothic idol: The Cantigas de Santa Maria and the imagery of love and conversion

Persis Berlekamp (2003): Wonders and their images in late medieval Islamic culture: "The Wonders of Creation" in Fars and Iraq, 1280-1388

David Drogin (2003): Representations of Bentivoglio authority: Fifteenth-century painting and sculpture in the Bentivoglio Chapel, San Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna

Amanda Luyster (2003): Courtly images far from court: The family Saint-Floret, representation, and romance

Amy Powell (2004): Repeated forms: Rogier van der Weyden's Descent from the Cross and its "copies"

Elizabeth Ross (2004): Picturing knowledge and experience in the early printed book: Reuwich's illustrations for Breydenbach's Pereginatio in terram sanctam (1486)

Alicia Walker (2004): Exotic elements in middle Byzantine secular art and aesthetics, 843-1204 C.E.

Diliana Angelova (2005): Gender and imperial authority in Rome and early Byzantium, first to sixth centuries

Jenny Ataoguz (2007): The apostolic commissioning of the monks of Saint John in Müestair, Switzerland: Painting and preaching in a Churraetian Monastery

Danielle Joyner (2007): A timely history: Images and texts in the Hortus Deliciarum

Aden Kumler (2007): Visual translation, visible theology: Illuminated compendia of spiritual instruction in late medieval France and England

Jennifer Pruitt (2009): Fatimid architectural patronage and changing sectarian identities (969-1021)

Shirin Fozi (2010): The body recast and revived: Figural tomb sculpture in the Holy Roman Empire, 1080--1160

Ivan Drpić (2011): Kosmos of verse: Epigram, art, and devotion in later Byzantium

Seth Hindin (2011): History and ethnic commitment in the visual culture of medieval Bohemia, ca. 1200-ca. 1420

Suzan Yalman (2011): Building the Sultanate of Rum: Memory, urbanism and mysticism in the architectural patronage of 'Ala al-Din Kayqubad (r. 1220-1237)

History of Science

Alnoor Dhanani (1991): Kalām and Hellenistic cosmology: Minimal parts in Basrian Muʻtazilī atomism

Elaheh Kheirandish (1991): The medieval Arabic tradition of Euclid's Optika

Kristin Peterson (1993): Translatio libri Avicennae De viribus cordis et medicinis cordialibus Arnaldi de Villanova

Nicolas Rofougaran (2000): Avicenna and Aquinas on individualism

Craig Martin (2002): Interpretation and utility: The renaissance commentary tradition on Aristotle's Meteorologica IV

Elly Truitt (2007): From magic to mechanism: Medieval automata, 1100--1550

Linguistics

John Harkness (1991): An approach to the metrical behavior of Old English verbs

Lisi Oliver (1995): The language of the early English laws

Committee on Middle Eastern Studies

Leor Halevi (2002): Muhammad 's grave: Death, ritual and society in the early Islamic world

Deborah Tor (2002): From holy warriors to chivalric order: The Ayyars in the eastern Islamic world, A.D. 800-1055

Kristen Stilt (2004): The muḥtasib, law, and society in early Mamluk Cairo and Fustat (648-802/1250-1400)

Dimitris Kastritsis (2005): The Ottoman interregnum (1402-1413): Politics and narratives of dynastic succession

Emire Muslu (2007): Ottoman -Mamluk relations: Diplomacy and perceptions

Nicolas Trépanier (2008): Food as a window into daily life in fourteenth century Central Anatolia

Ahmed El Shamsy (2009): From tradition to law: The origins and early development of the Shāfi‘ī School of Law in ninth-century Egypt

Timothy Fitzgerald (2009): Ottoman methods of conquest: Legal imperialism and the city of Aleppo, 1480-1570

Iklil Selcuk (2009): State and society in the marketplace: A study of late fifteenth-century Bursa

Amanda Wesner (1992): The chansons of Loyset Compère: Authenticity and stylistic development

Anne Stone (1994): Writing rhythm in late medieval Italy: Notation and musical style in the manuscript Modena, Biblioteca estense, Alpha.M.5.24

Thomas Kozachek (1995): The repertory of chant for dedicating churches in the Middle Ages: Music, liturgy, and ritual

Noël Bisson (1998): English polyphony for the Virgin Mary: The votive antiphon, 1430-1500

Michael Cuthbert (2006): Trecento fragments and polyphony beyond the codex

Christina Linklater (2006): Popularity, presentation and the Chansonnier Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Evan MacCarthy (2010): Music and learning in early Renaissance Ferrara, c. 1430-1470

Anna Zayaruznaya (2010): Form and idea in the Ars Nova motet

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Barbara Croken (1990): Zabîd under the Rasulids of Yemen, 626-858 AH/ 1229-1454 AD

Ghada Qaddumi (1990): A medieval Islamic book of gifts and treasures: Translation, annotation, and commentary on the Kitāb al-Hadāyā wa al-tuḥaf

Pauline Eskenasy (1991): Antony of Tagrit's Rhetoric book one: Introduction, partial translation, and commentary

Jeffrey Woolf (1991): The life and responsa of Rabbi Joseph Colon b. Solomon Trabotto (Maharik)

Lisa Wurtele (née Karp) (1992): Sahl b. Hârǔn: The man and his contribution to 'adab

Daphna Ephrat (1993): The Sunni ʻulama ʾ of eleventh-century Baghdad and the transmission of knowledge: A social history

Eric Lawee (1993): "Inheritance of the fathers": Aspects of Isaac Abarbanel's stance towards tradition

Adena Tanenbaum (1993): Poetry and philosophy: The idea of the soul in Andalusian Piyyut

Michael Cooperson (1994): The heirs of the prophets in classical Arabic biography

Mark Sendor (1994): The emergence of the Provençal kabbalah: Rabbi Isaac the Blind's Commentary on Sefer Yeẓirah

Tahera Qutbuddin (1999): Al-Mua̓yyad fī al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī: Founder of a new tradition of Fatimid Dawa poetry

Nargis Virani (1999): "I am the nightingale of the merciful": Macaronic or upside-down? The mulammaʻāt of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Angela Jaffray (2000): At the threshold of philosophy: A study of al-Fārābī's introductory works on logic

Stephen Ryan (2001): Studies in Bar Salibi's commentary on the Psalms

Rahim Acar (2002): Creation: A comparative study between Avicenna's and Aquinas' positions

James Robinson (2002): Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Commentary on Ecclesiastes

Bruce Fudge (2003): The major Qurʼān commentary of al-Ṭabrisī (d. 548/1154)

Gidon Rothstein (2003): Writing Midrash Avot: The change that three fifteenth century exegetes introduced to Avotinterpretation, its impact and origins

Aisha Musa (2004): A study of early and contemporary Muslim attitudes toward Hadīth as scripture with translation of al-Shāfi ʹ ī's Kitāb Jimāʹ al-ʹIlm

Ahmad Ahmad (2005): Structural interrelations of theory and practice in Islamic law: A study of Takhrīj al-Furūʻ ʻalá al-Uṣūl literature

Sinān Antūn (2006): The poetics of the obscene: Ibn al-Ḥajjāj and Sukhf

Hikmet Yaman (2008): The concept of hikmah in early Islamic thought

Yaron Klein (2009): Musical instruments as objects of meaning in classical Arabic poetry and philosophy

Erez Naaman (2009): Literature and literary people at the court of Al-Ṣāḥib Ibn 'Abbās

Elisha Russ-Fishbane (2009): Between politics and piety: Abraham Maimonides and his times

Gabriella Berzin (2010): The Medieval Hebrew version of psychology in Avicenna's Salvation ( Al-Najāt )

Committee on the Study of Religion

Dianne Bazell (1991): Christian diet: A case study using Arnald of Villanova's De esu carnium

Rosemary Hale (1992): Imitatio Mariae : Motherhood motifs in late medieval German spirituality

Gregg Stern (1995): Menahem Ha-Meiri and the second controversy over philosophy

Claire Sahlin (1996): Birgitta of Sweden and the voice of prophecy: A study of gender and religious authority in the later Middle Ages

Anne Thayer (1996): Penitence and preaching on the eve of the Reformation: A comparative overview from frequently printed model sermon collections, 1450-1520

Luis Girón Negrón (1997): Alfonso de la Torre's Visión deleytable : Philosophical rationalism and the religious imagination in fifteenth-century Spain

Lisa Lawrence (2002): The Irish and the incarnation: Images of Christ in the Old Irish poems of Blathmac

Christian Lang (2006): Executing justice in Sunnī Islam: Historical, poetical, eschatological and legal dimensions of punishment under the Saljūqs (1055-1194 CE)

Raquel Ukeles (2006): Innovation or deviation: Exploring the boundaries of Islamic devotional law

Mary Dunn (2008): Sainte-Anne-du-Petit-Cap: The making of an early modern shrine

Zachary Matus (2010): Heaven in a bottle: Franciscan apocalypticism and the elixir, 1250-1360

F. Dominic Longo (2011): Spiritual grammar: A comparative theological study of Jean Gerson's Donatus moralizatus and Abd al Karim al-Qushayri's Nahw al-qulub

Romance Languages and Literatures

Gary Cestaro (1990): The whip and the wet nurse: Dante's De vulgari eloquentia and the psychology of grammar in the Middle Ages

Carol Dover (1990): Nature, nurture and the hero: Narrating identity in the old French prose Lancelot

Roberto Gonzalez-Casanovas (1990): Predicación y narrativa en Ramón Llull: De imagen a semejanza en Blanquerna

William Cole (1991): Romance to tragedy: A comparative study of the Tristan poems of Béroul and Gottfried

Gregory Hutcheson (1993): Marginality and empowerment in Baena's Cancionero

Maria Roglieri (1994): "Uror, et in uaco pectore regnat amor": The influence of Ovid's amatory works on Dante's Vita nuova and Commedia

Mark DeStephano (1995): Feudal relations in the Poema de mío Cid : Comparative perspectives in medieval Spanish and French epic

Leyla Rouhi (1995): A comparative typology of the medieval go-between in light of Western-European, Near-Eastern, and Spanish cases

Kathryn Karczewska (1996): In days of future past: Prophecy and knowledge in the French vulgate grail legends

Benjamin Liu (1996): Equivocal poetics and cultural ambiguity in the Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer

Maria Romagnoli (1996): Andreas Capellanus: Issues of identity, reception and audience

Lynn Ramey (1997): Christians and Saracens: Imagination and cultural interaction in the French Middle Ages

Elizabeth Mozzillo-Howell (1998): Dante 's art of reason: A study of medieval logic and semantics in the Monarchy

Marilina Falzarano (1999): Il volgarizzamento dei seitte salmi penitenziali di Simone Da Cascina

Horacio Chiong Rivero (2002): Maker of masks: Fray Antonio de Guevara's pseudo-historical fictionalizations

Elisabeth Hodges (2002): City views: Writing and the topography of Frenchness and the Renaissance

Simone Pinet (2002): Archipelagoes: Insularity and fiction in medieval and early modern Spain

Irit Kleiman (2003): Traitor, author, text: Four late medieval narratives of betrayal

Timothy Tomasik (2003): Textual tastes: The invention of culinary literature in early modern France

Paolo de Ventura (2003): Dramma e dialogo nella Commedia di Dante

Phillip Usher (2004): The Holy Lands in early modern literature: Negotiations of Christian geography and textual space

Ji-Hyun Kim (2005): For a modern medieval literature: Gaston Paris, courtly love, and the demands of modernity

James McMenamin (2008): The sequence "beginning-middle-end," Dante and Petrarch

Catherine Adoyo (2011): The order of all things: Mimetic craft in Dante's Commedia

Slavic Languages and Literatures

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150 Strong History Dissertation Topics to Write about

Writing a dissertation is one of the most challenging and exciting moments of an academic career. Such work usually takes a great deal of time, courage, and intellectual effort to complete. That’s why every step in your work process is essential.

It all starts with finding a good topic, which can be a challenge of its own. It especially matters when it comes to liberal arts subjects. In social studies, literature, or world history options are practically endless.

Coming up with history dissertation ideas, you need to think of historical events that interest you. We get it, choosing one is tough. There can be too much to wrap your head around. That’s why IvyPanda experts prepare some dissertation topics in history ready for you.

• How to Choose a Topic?
• Ancient History
• Medieval History
• Modern History
• Cold War Topics
• American History
• European History
• Indian History
• African History
• Performing Arts
• Visual Arts
• How to Structure

🧐 How to Choose a History Dissertation Topic?

Before examining our ideas for dissertation topics in history, you should get ready for this. You have to understand how to pick a history dissertation topic, which will ensure your academic success. Keep in mind that this is a vital step in your career.

So, check some tips on picking what to write about:

• Make sure that the topic fits in your field of study. You have to understand what you’re writing about. Basing your paper on existing knowledge and experience is a part of any dissertation. Working on an overly complicated idea can sound impressive but lead to failure. It will become a nightmare already on the stage of writing a dissertation proposal. How can you write the entire thing without comprehending it?
• Estimate whether you’re interested in the topic you intend to write on. Although this might seem obvious, yes. However, being actually invested makes a massive difference for your further work. There are plenty of students who settle for “easy but boring” topics and end up struggling twice as much.
• Ensure that your topic is specific enough. Your idea should have the potential for fruitful research. Narrowing down your area of study is essential for writing a good dissertation. It helps you to find the direction of your examination and enough sources to work with. Moreover, this way, you’ll be able to explore your topic in its entirety.
• Do some prior research. It will give you an understanding of how much literature on your topic is out there. Take notes of the materials for the reference list and your analysis. Checking history essay samples is a good idea, too.
• Don’t be shy to ask your dissertation advisor for some assistance. After all, they are here to help and guide you through the process. Besides, you have to see what ideas they consider relevant and appropriate.

👍 Good Dissertation Topics in History: Time Period

History is a subject as ancient and vast as the humankind itself. It’s only rational to study it according to a particular timeline. Here are some good history dissertation topics for different periods.

🏺 Ancient History Dissertation Topics

• Ancient Civilizations: The Maya Empire . The Maya was an incredibly powerful Empire with its prime around six century A.D., excelling in mathematics, calendar-making, astrology, and writing. It faced the decline of its city-states in nine century A.D., leaving a rich cultural heritage to the studies of subsequent generations.
• Women’s Roles and Gender relations in the Ancient World
• Greek City-States . Ancient Greece is the place where the first city-states were formed. How did the first governments in the ancient history timeline develop? How did people’s attitudes towards leadership change in that context?

• Ancient Near-Eastern Thought and the Old Testament
• The Inca Empire as a Great Civilization of Pre-Columbian America
• The Impact of Mongol Invasion in Ancient Arab
• The personality of Julius Caesar and His Effect on Rome
• The Role of Poets and the place of Poetry in Ancient Greece
• Mesopotamian Civilization . This was a fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It has been home to some of the world’s wealthiest and most advanced ancient cities. It can also make an excellent archaeology dissertation topic. There are plenty of fascinating sites that could be studied.
• History: Ancient Greek Olympics . Started in 776 BC, the Olympic Games were the most important cultural event in Ancient Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus every four years. Besides, the Olympics were representative of the triumph of physical and spiritual power.
• Warfare and Violence in Ancient Times. Try to do a comparative analysis of warfare techniques used by different ancient civilizations. It could be a great dissertation topic.
• Burial Rituals in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece: a comparison
• Plutarch’s Vision on Alexander the Great
• Dissolution of the Roman Empire . The Empire sprawled from the coast of North Africa to the territories of the modern UK and Armenia. Once, it was the most powerful political entity in the entire Mediterranean. The empire, however, collapsed in 476 CE. What were the reasons for its eventual decline?

• How Geography Has Impacted the Development of Ancient Cultures
• Cause and Effect of Art on Classical Societies
• The Invention of Papyrus and its impact on the World
• Chichen Itza Archaeological Site . Chichen Itza is a great pre-Columbian archaeological site, home to the Maya civilization. It is a fascinating study case in many aspects. Consider the origins and Maya history. Analyze the cultural preservation issues that it faces nowadays.
• Egyptian Pyramid’s Importance in Egypt’s society
• The Stone Age Period and its Evolution

🛡 Medieval History Dissertation Ideas

• Cultural Exchanges in the Medieval Period . In the aftermath of the Roman Empire’s fall, new geopolitical conditions formed. The early Middle Ages period already marked the appearance of new trade routes. It fostered cultural exchange between nations.
• Rome in the Middle Ages and its cultural transformation
• The Development of Feudalism and Manorialism in the Middle Ages
• The Catholic Church and the Black Death in the 14th Century . During the high Middle Ages, the plague epidemic terrorized Europe. It was a dreadful challenge to medicine, religious institutions, and the social apparatus of the time. How did the Catholic Church deal with such a complex and disastrous medical phenomenon?
• Jews and Muslims in Medieval Spain . Christian, Islamic, and Jewish communities shared the Iberian peninsula in the early Middle Ages. It formed a vibrant cultural environment.
• London during the Roman Age: A Critical Overview
• Causes of the First Crusade of 1095-1099
• Twelfth-Century Renaissance, how Franciscans reacted to it and benefited from its development
• Business and Empire, the British ideal of an Orderly World
• The Black Death, Late Medieval Demographic crisis, and the Standard of Living controversies
• The Role of the Church in the life of the Middle Ages

• Medieval Siege Warfare . Exploring methods of defense used during the Middle Ages might be an interesting research project.
• The Conditions of Hindu and Islamic women in Medieval India
• Why the Crusades Failed
• The Mechanical Water clock of Ibn Al-Haytham, his philosophy of the rise and fall of empires
• The Renaissance and its Cultural, Political and Economic Influence
• The Dark Ages as the Golden Ages of European History . Plenty of facts demonstrate civilization’s decline during the Middle Ages. It was, nevertheless, the time of significant scientific, literary, and technological progress. For some interested in writing a medieval literature dissertation: think of Dante’s Divine Comedy . Da Vinci made his groundbreaking study projects during the Middle Ages. It was the time when first universities, such as Cambridge and Oxford, were founded. Overall, this period has a lot to offer!
• Japan’s Development Under Edo/Tokugawa Shogunate
• Historical and Theological Context of Byzantine Iconoclasm
• Medieval Convivencia: Document Analysis

🕰 Modern History Dissertation Topics

• World History: Enlightenment in Society and its Impact on Global Culture
• Nationalism and its 19th Century History
• Why Mussolini and the Fascists Were Able to Seize Power in Italy
• Religious Symbolism in Renaissance paintings . Renaissance is well-known as a period when fine arts were thriving. It was an early modern birthplace of many technological and cultural advancements. Religion, however, was still a central topic in visual art.
• Industrial Revolution and its Impact on Western Civilizations
• Principles of Liberalism and Its Connection to Enlightenment and Conservatism
• “History and Topography of Ireland” by Gerald of Wales . Looking for an incredible Irish history dissertation topic? Then this document might be an interesting prompt. Its somewhat controversial tone of describing contemporary Irish culture, history, and traditions can be subject to a comprehensive analysis.
• Moral treatment of Mental Illness . Over the 19th and 20th centuries, psychology has changed. Moving from a scientific periphery, it became one of the central subjects of scholarly discussions. Mental illnesses were highly disregarded in earlier centuries. People even considered them to be manifestations of demonic possession. How did this attitude change? Why did people rethink psychology as a scholarly discipline?
• A History of the Cuban Revolution

• Abraham Lincoln’s Historical Influence
• Role of Women During the Spanish Civil War
• Conquest and Colonization of America by European Countries . Colonization of America is one of the grandest enterprises in the world’s political history. What were its driving forces?
• Origins and Trajectory of the French Revolution
• Major Impacts of Consumerism in contemporary world history
• Coco Chanel Fashion: History of Costume . Probably not the first topic for a history dissertation that comes to mind. Chanel is truly an iconic figure in modern history, though. She revolutionized the fashion industry concerning gender as well.
• Causes of the Breakup of the Former Yugoslavia
• The Russian Working Class Movement . Before 1861, the agriculture and peasant-owning system were the foundation of the Russian Empire’s economy. Serfs made up a significant part of the population, accounting for over 60% in some regions. Then the serfdom abolition happened. A lot has changed in the economic and social life of the country.
• Segregation During the 1960s
• Historical Development of Feminism and Patriarchy
• Monetary and Fiscal Policy during the Great Depression

🔔 History Dissertation Topics on Cold War

• The Role of Cold War in Shaping Transatlantic Relations in the Period from 1945 to 1970
• The showdown between the United States and the USSR . Cold Was was essentially the power struggle between the US and the Soviet Union. It unleashed in the aftermath of World War II. This political precedent came to an end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, the answer to the “Who won the Cold War?” question may be unclear.
• The Cuban Missile Crisis , its causes, and effects
• US Foreign Policy during the Cold War. Cold War, as a phenomenon, has many layers to it. Yet the one crucial is the contest of two ideologies: democracy and communism. How did the US shape its foreign policy and pursue its interests abroad? And how did the cultural and political setup within the country adjust to it?
• To what extent did the Cold War shape the US relations with Latin America?
• What was the importance of Berlin in the Cold War?
• Japan’s role since the end of the Cold War
• Cold War Politics, Culture, and War . Exploring the Cold War causes and effects can be quite a challenge. It is such a multifaceted phenomenon. It was a war led on many fronts. Both USSR and the US pursued their interests using a variety of methods.

• How did Cold War propaganda influence the film industry?
• What were the challenges in the post-cold war world?

🗺 History Dissertation Topics: Geographical Regions

Every country has its historical course, and so does every continent. Geography has always been an important factor when talking about history. It shapes historical trajectory in varied, unique ways.

Look at a dissertation topics history list based on geographical regions:

🦅 American History Dissertation Topics

• History of Hollywood, California . Oh, Hollywood. A place where American movie history was born. What about Hollywood’s history? Although a less traditional American history dissertation topic, it is still a fascinating one. Explore the way technological advancements in filmmaking were introduced over the decades. How did they influence the film’s general style?
• History: Migration into the United States . How did migration influence the economy of the time?
• The Relationships between the Settlers and Native Americans
• Literary works’ Views on Slavery in the United States
• Causes of the Civil War in America
• What is the real meaning of a cowboy?
• The United States military experience through the eyes of films
• Attack on Pearl Harbor: Effects of Foreign policy
• Causes of Depression in the 1890s
• Has President Obama’s Presidency changed the US?
• The role of Founding Fathers in American Society and Religion
• Post-Civil War reconstruction . Consider the way America’s economy, trade, and finance transformed in the aftermath of the Civil War.
• Principal causes and consequences of the Spanish-American War
• Why was the Declaration of Independence written?
• The Significance of the Frontier in American History
• How is a “new racial narrative” in the U.S.A created?
• American Revolution and the Crisis of the Constitution of the U.S.A. Rethink the origins of the American constitution, as well as the following events. It could be an exciting thesis idea for an American history dissertation.

• Growth and Development of San Francisco and Los Angeles after the Gold Rush
• The Role of Racism in American Art
• Drug Use and Abuse in America: Historical Analysis

🏰 European History Dissertation Topics

• Age of Discovery in Europe. The Age of Exploration in Europe lasted from the 15th to the 17th century. Over this period, Europe actively engaged with other territories and continents. Discoverers formed new international relations and expanded geographical knowledge. This topic could also make an excellent cultural history dissertation.
• Analyzing the Impact of British Colonization
• Nationalism in World War II
• Effects of the Industrial Revolution concerning World War I
• The Rise and Fall of Napoleon and the Cause of Revolution . Napoleon is one of the most prominent figures in French history. What has shaped his career as a political leader?
• History of Hitler’s Nazi Propaganda . Consider a brief history of Germany. Undoubtedly, the rule of Hitler and the Third Reich was its most devastating chapter. The “art” of propaganda flourished during the nazi regime. It penetrated the cultural, political, and social life of the country.
• Evolution of the IRA
• Napoleon’s Strategy and Tactics in his Invasion of Russia . For someone interested in writing a military history dissertation.
• Industrial Revolution Impact on Gender Roles
• Witchcraft in Europe (1450-1750) . Witch hunts took place as early as the Middle Ages in Europe. Held by the Church in most cases, witch hunts targeted those who were suspected of practicing black magic. Examine this both astonishing and problematic phenomenon.

• French Revolution: Liberal and Radical Portions
• West European Studies: Columbus’s Journey
• History of Feudalism . Feudalism dominated the European way of life during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. What were its distinctive features as a system? Why did it eventually fade away?
• Europe’s perception of Islam in the Early and Middle centuries
• Cold War Consequences for European Countries
• Mutated Medical Professionals in the Third Reich: Third Reich Doctors
• Was the Holocaust the Failure or the Product of Modernity?
• How did the use of print change the lives of early modern Europeans ?
• Early Modern England: a Social History
• Jewish Insight of Holocaust

⛰ Indian History Dissertation Topics

• History of the Indian Castes. The Indian Caste system is a complex and unique example of social stratification.
• Mahatma Gandhi’s Leadership . Gandhi is, for sure, among the greatest human rights advocates in the world’s history. His one of a kind leadership style is subject to many studies. While practicing a peaceful form of civil protest, he fought for equality, independence, and compassion.
• Political conflicts in India in the XVII century
• Impacts of the First World War on British Policies in India
• Movement Against the British rule in India. Led by Mahatma Gandhi, with the support of the National Congress, the movement took place in 1920-22. It sought to fight for the freedom of Indians.
• The Origin and Course of the Indian revolt of 1857
• The Issues of the Partitioning of India in 1947
• India Since 1900 . India is a region rich with unique traditions. Its spiritual and cultural heritage goes back to antiquity. The country’s authentic art and architecture, music, and cuisine have served as an inspiration worldwide. A considerable part of its history is, however, affected by British rule.

• Women in Hinduism and Buddhism
• The British East India Company

🌍 African History Dissertation Topics

• Ancient Societies in Mesopotamia and Ancient Societies in Africa: a comparison . Egypt is one of the most ancient African civilizations. Its origins go back to the third millennium B.C. Back then, the cultural exchange between Egypt and Mesopotamia was flourishing. What were the significant differences between the two civilizations? What did they have to offer to one another?
• Political Violence in South Africa between 1985 and 1989
• Did History of Modern South Africa begin with the Discovery of Diamonds and Gold?
• Nelson Mandela: “Freedom in Africa.” Nelson Mandela is, without a doubt, one of the central figures in African history. His devotion and tireless effort in fighting against apartheid were remarkable. Thanks to him, many sub-Saharan countries enjoy the freedoms and advances of a democratic society.
• The Cult of the Dead in West Africa: The Kongo People . African tribal rituals and traditions are unique and specific to their region. Cult of the Dead is prevalent in Western African culture. It can be notoriously known as the origin place of voodoo and other black magic practices. There is yet much more to this culture. Dismantling some prejudices could make an excellent African history thesis.
• Christianity, Slavery, and Colonialism: the paradox
• The Colonial War in Southwest Africa
• African-Europe Relations between 1800 and 2000
• Impacts of Slavery and Slave Trade in Africa
• African Communities in America

🎨 Art History Dissertation Topics

Art comes in all shapes and forms. To grasp it better, we can explore each kind separately. Here’s a list of art history dissertation ideas:

🎶 Topics on Performing Arts

• History and Development of Ballet . Ballet is an art form with a long history. Initially, a specific dance originated in Medieval Italy. It was later brought to France and Great Britain. Ballet thrived in the 20th century Russia, where Russian choreographers brought it to the highest level of mastery.
• The Life and Work of William Shakespeare: His Contribution to The Contemporary Theater
• Jazz Music in American Culture . Jazz is one of the most complex and exciting music genres of all time. It was born in the 20’s century black communities of New Orleans and quickly spread across America and then the world. The genre, however, will always be an integral part of African-American identity.
• The Instrumental Music of Baroque: Forms and Evolution
• Rock Music of the 1970s
• Michael Jackson’s Life as a Musician and Choreographer
• Development of the Symphony Orchestra in the 19th and 20th Century
• Woodstock Music Festival . This massive music festival that first took place in 1969 was the epitome of hippie culture. It has a rich history that once again underscores the importance of performing arts in Western culture.
• The History of Modern Chinese Music
• The Renaissance Theater Development. The era in which both visual and performing arts were thriving. It has a lot to offer for proper dissertation research.

🖼Topics on Visual Arts

• Art Period Comparison: Classicism and Middle Age
• Vincent Van Gogh: Changes in the Technique
• The Ambiguity of Mona Lisa Painting

• Orientalism in Western Art . It’s commonly associated with romanticism and some 20th-century artworks. Orientalism is a Western term that speculates the aesthetics of the Orient. Consider this concept as a prism through which Westerners viewed the Eastern world.
• Classical Art and Cubism: History and Comparison
• Postmodern and Modern Art . The 20th and 21st centuries have been a breeding ground for many forms of fine art to emerge and flourish. Some art movements presented their philosophy in the form of manifestos. These texts can be nothing but a pure treasure for someone writing an art history dissertation.
• Female Figures in Ancient Greek Sculpture
• Andy Warhol’s Career . Pioneer of pop-art, creator of Studio 54, and a style icon.
• Filippo Brunelleschi and Religious Architecture
• The Photographic Approaches Towards American Culture of Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand

📋 How to Structure Your Dissertation?

An adequately structured history dissertation can immensely help students. It ensures that they present their ideas and thoughts logically. Sticking to a particular dissertation structure is an essential element of such work.

The general plan of any dissertation type is the following:

• Title Page. A title page should only contain essential information about your work. It usually shows your name, type of the document (thesis, research paper, dissertation), and the title itself. A good history dissertation title is crucial! It’s the first thing a reader will see.
• Acknowledgments. Do you wish to give credit to someone for supporting you during the tiresome months of your work? This is the right part to do so, be it your family, friends, or professors. It is an excellent form to express gratitude to those who proofread your drafts. Or those who brought you another cup of coffee when you needed it.
• Declaration. This section is your written confirmation. You declare that all the research and writing is entirely original and was conducted by you. If someone intellectually contributed to your project, state it in the acknowledgments.
• Table of Contents. Essentially, it’s a brief structure of your dissertation. List every section that you’ve included in your academic paper here.
• Abstract. This is the section where you write a brief summary of your dissertation. It should describe the issue, summarize your core message and essential points. List your research methods and what you’ve done. Remember to make it short, as the abstract shouldn’t exceed 300 words or so. Finish the part with a few essential keywords so that others can find your work.
• Introduction. A dissertation introduction presents the subject to the reader. You can talk about the format of your work. Explain what you plan to contribute to the field with your research.
• Literature Review. The chapter reviews and analyzes pieces of scholarly work (literature) that have been made on the subject of your research. The sources should present relevant theories and support your thesis. Be sure to discuss the weaknesses and strengths of the selected area of study and highlight possible gaps in this research.
• a code of conduct;
• research limitations;
• research philosophy;
• research design;
• ethical consideration;
• data collection methods;
• data analysis strategy.
• Findings and Results. Restate everything you have found in your research. However, do not interpret the data or make any conclusions yet.
• Discussion and Conclusion. In this chapter, you should personally interpret all of the data and make conclusions based on your research. It is essential to establish a logical link between the results and evidence. Finally, conclude the overall study. You can add final judgments, opinions, and comments.
• References. This section contains a list of references to all the sources that you used. Write down every material, which you quoted, mentioned, or paraphrased in your work. Check your educational institution’s guidelines to see how to do so correctly.
• Bibliography. Similar to the reference section, a bibliography is a list of sources you used in your dissertation. The only difference is that it should contain even the sources you don’t directly mention in your writing. Whatever helped you with the research, you state here.
• Appendices. The section may include any supplementary information that explains and complement the arguments. Add pictures, diagrams, and graphs that serve as examples for your research subject.

Writing a dissertation is the right challenge for those with ambitions and lots of determination. It is a lot like a marathon, and it starts with choosing the right topic. We hope that you will find one for yourself on this list. Good luck! Share the article to help those who may need a piece of advice or some history dissertation topics.

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Political History

• The Role of Monarchy in Medieval Europe: Power, Succession, and Dynasties
• Feudalism and Its Influence on Medieval Society
• The Magna Carta and the Evolution of Constitutionalism
• The Crusades: A Political and Religious Endeavor
• The Hundred Years’ War: Causes, Key Battles, and Consequences
• The Byzantine Empire: Politics and Influence on Medieval Europe
• Papal Power and the Medieval Church-State Relationship
• The Black Death and Its Political Impact
• The Norman Conquest of England: William the Conqueror and Its Aftermath
• The Golden Age of Charlemagne: The Carolingian Empire and Its Legacy

Cultural History

• Chivalry and Knighthood: Codes of Conduct and Idealized Behavior
• The Role of Women in Medieval Society: From Noble Ladies to Peasant Women
• Medieval Art and Architecture: Cathedrals, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Iconography
• Courtly Love: Romance and Relationships in Medieval Literature
• Education and Intellectual Life in Medieval Monasteries
• Folklore and Legends: Robin Hood, King Arthur, and the Arthurian Legends
• Music and Dance in Medieval Society: Troubadours and Minstrels
• Medieval Festivals and Celebrations: Feast Days, Carnivals, and Jousting Tournaments
• The Influence of Islamic Culture on Medieval Europe
• The Role of Guilds in Medieval Trade and Craftsmanship

Religious History

• The Crusades: Motivations, Impact, and Legacy
• Heresy and Inquisition: Religious Dissent and Its Suppression
• The Great Schism: East-West Division in the Christian Church
• Pilgrimage in Medieval Europe: Meaning, Routes, and Shrines
• Saints and Relics: Veneration and the Cult of the Holy
• Monasticism and Monastic Orders: Benedictines, Franciscans, and Dominicans
• The Mendicant Movement: Poverty, Preaching, and Social Engagement
• The Medieval Inquisition: Origins, Methods, and Consequences
• The Witch Hunts of the Medieval Period: Beliefs and Persecution
• The Impact of the Printing Press on Religious Change in the Late Medieval Era

Military History

• The Battle of Hastings: William the Conqueror’s Triumph
• Knights and Armor: Technology and Tactics in Medieval Warfare
• The Siege of Constantinople: The Fall of the Byzantine Empire
• The Teutonic Knights and the Northern Crusades
• The Reconquista: Christian Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula
• The Battle of Agincourt: Henry V’s Victory against the French
• The Mongol Invasions: Genghis Khan and the Conquest of Asia
• The Wars of the Roses: Noble Rivalry for the English Throne
• The Spanish Inquisition: Religion and Warfare
• The Battle of Tours: Charles Martel and the Defense against the Moors

Economic History

• The Hanseatic League: Trade and Economic Power in Medieval Northern Europe
• The Rise of Italian City-States: Florence, Venice, and Genoa
• The Silk Road: Trade and Cultural Exchange between East and West
• The Medieval Merchant Guilds: Economic Influence and Regulation
• The Black Death and its Economic Impact on European Society
• The Agricultural Revolution: Technological Advances in Medieval Farming
• The Commercial Revolution: Growth of Urban Centers and Market Economy
• Medieval Coinage and Currency: Monetary Systems and Economic Stability
• The Role of Fairs and Trade Routes in Medieval Commerce
• The Rise of Banking and Financial Institutions in Medieval Europe

Intellectual History

• Scholasticism and the Rise of Medieval Universities
• The Influence of Aristotle on Medieval Thought
• The Works of Thomas Aquinas: Theology and Philosophy
• The Development of Vernacular Literature in Medieval Europe
• The Influence of Arabic and Islamic Scholarship on Western Intellectual Tradition
• Mysticism and Spiritual Movements in Medieval Christianity
• Humanism and the Renaissance in Medieval Italy
• The Role of Medieval Monastic Libraries in Preserving Knowledge
• Astrology and Alchemy: Esoteric Knowledge in Medieval Society
• Medieval Science and the Pursuit of Natural Philosophy

Social History

• Feudal Society: Hierarchy, Classes, and Social Mobility
• Women’s Role in Medieval Society: Power, Influence, and Restrictions
• Peasant Life: Agriculture, Serfdom, and Rural Communities
• Medieval Crime and Punishment: Justice, Law, and Order
• The Black Death: Social Disruption and Demographic Changes
• Marriage and Family Life in the Middle Ages
• Slavery and Servitude in Medieval Europe
• Medieval Medicine: Healing Practices, Medical Knowledge, and Remedies
• The Role of Medieval Guilds in Urban Life
• The Impact of the Crusades on Social Structures and Cultural Exchange

Art and Architecture

• Gothic Architecture: Cathedrals, Flying Buttresses, and Stained Glass
• Romanesque Architecture: Churches, Monasteries, and Fortifications
• Illuminated Manuscripts: Book Production and Miniature Art
• Medieval Sculpture and Woodcarving: From Reliefs to Free-Standing Statues
• Mosaic Art: Byzantine Influence and Iconographic Representation
• The Bayeux Tapestry: A Visual Chronicle of the Norman Conquest
• Metalwork and Jewelry: Craftsmanship and Decorative Arts
• Medieval Painting: From Icons to Altarpieces
• Castle Architecture and Military Engineering
• The Art of Heraldry: Coats of Arms and Symbolism

Scientific and Technological Advances

• Medieval Astronomy and Astrology: Understanding the Universe
• The Development of the Compass and Its Impact on Navigation
• The Invention of the Mechanical Clock and Timekeeping
• Advances in Agriculture: Crop Rotation and Improved Farming Techniques
• Medieval Engineering: Bridges, Aqueducts, and Cathedrals
• The Use of Gunpowder in Medieval Warfare
• The Printing Press: Gutenberg’s Revolutionary Invention
• Medieval Alchemy: From Transmutation to Experimental Science
• The Impact of Islamic Scientific Knowledge on Medieval Europe
• The Evolution of Medieval Medicine: From Herbal Remedies to Surgical Techniques

Regional Studies

• The Kingdom of England: Political, Social, and Cultural Transformations
• The Byzantine Empire: Politics, Religion, and Artistic Legacy
• The Kingdom of France: Monarchy, Conflict, and Cultural Flourishing
• The Holy Roman Empire: Structure, Dissolution, and Legacy
• The Iberian Peninsula: Reconquista, Kingdoms, and Cultural Exchange
• The Italian City-States: Artistic Renaissance and Political Dynamics
• The Kingdom of Scotland: Independence, Wars, and Cultural Identity
• The Nordic Countries: Viking Age, Norse Mythology, and Scandinavian Influence
• The Crusader States: Kingdoms in the Levant and Interactions with the Muslim World
• The Papal States: Power, Influence, and Religious Authority

This comprehensive list of medieval history research paper topics covers various aspects of political, cultural, religious, military, economic, intellectual, social, artistic, scientific, and regional history. Students are presented with a wide range of intriguing subjects to choose from, allowing them to explore and analyze different facets of the medieval era. Whether delving into the intricacies of political power, examining the influence of chivalry and knighthood, or unraveling the mysteries of medieval art and architecture, these topics offer a wealth of opportunities for engaging and enlightening research papers.

Medieval History: Exploring the Time of Knights, Castles, and Crusades

The medieval period, spanning roughly from the 5th to the 15th century, holds a special place in history as a time of profound societal change, cultural transformation, and iconic imagery. It was an era marked by the rise and fall of empires, the flourishing of art and architecture, the clash of religions, and the advent of chivalry and knighthood. Understanding medieval history provides a fascinating glimpse into a world of castles and cathedrals, knights and peasants, and epic quests for power and glory.

One of the remarkable aspects of medieval history is the sheer diversity of topics it encompasses. From political intrigues and military campaigns to religious upheavals and economic transformations, there is a vast array of research paper topics that offer students the opportunity to delve into this captivating period. Exploring medieval history allows us to unravel the stories of kings and queens, explore the everyday lives of ordinary people, and examine the intellectual and cultural developments that shaped the course of history.

One of the key areas of interest in medieval history is political history. The medieval world was characterized by a complex web of political structures, including feudalism, monarchy, and the rise of city-states. Research papers in this area could delve into topics such as the power struggles between monarchs and nobles, the impact of the Magna Carta on the concept of constitutionalism, or the influence of the Crusades on European politics and diplomacy.

Cultural history is another fascinating aspect of the medieval period. From the awe-inspiring cathedrals of Gothic architecture to the illuminations of medieval manuscripts, the cultural achievements of this era continue to captivate scholars and enthusiasts alike. Exploring topics such as the role of women in medieval society, the development of courtly love in literature, or the influence of Islamic culture on European art provides a deeper understanding of the rich cultural tapestry of the time.

Religion played a central role in medieval society, and the interplay between different religious beliefs and institutions shaped the course of history. Research papers on religious history could explore topics such as the impact of the Crusades on Christian-Muslim relations, the rise of heretical movements and the Inquisition, or the role of monasticism in preserving knowledge and scholarship.

Military history is another prominent area of study within medieval history. The image of knights in shining armor, jousting tournaments, and epic battles captures the imagination. Research papers could focus on topics such as the strategies and tactics employed during key battles, the influence of castles and fortifications on warfare, or the impact of the Mongol invasions on European military practices.

Economic history offers insight into the economic systems and developments of the medieval period. Research papers could delve into topics such as the growth of trade and commerce, the role of guilds in regulating and advancing specific industries, or the impact of the Black Death on the economic landscape.

Intellectual history in the medieval period witnessed the rise of scholasticism, the pursuit of knowledge, and the development of universities. Research papers could explore topics such as the influence of medieval philosophy on later intellectual movements, the role of monastic libraries in preserving and disseminating knowledge, or the emergence of vernacular literature and its impact on cultural identity.

The social history of the medieval period provides a lens through which to examine the lives of ordinary people. Research papers could focus on topics such as the role of women, the lives of peasants, or the impact of epidemics such as the Black Death on society and demographics.

Art and architecture flourished during the medieval period, leaving behind magnificent cathedrals, sculptures, and illuminated manuscripts. Research papers in this area could explore topics such as the architectural innovations of Gothic cathedrals, the symbolism in medieval art, or the techniques and materials used in manuscript illumination.

The scientific and technological advances of the medieval period also deserve attention. Research papers could delve into topics such as the developments in astronomy and astrology, the impact of the printing press on the dissemination of knowledge, or the contributions of medieval scholars to the fields of medicine and alchemy.

Finally, regional studies provide a unique perspective on the medieval period, showcasing the distinct characteristics and events of specific regions. Research papers could focus on topics such as the Norman Conquest of England, the Byzantine Empire, or the Kingdom of Scotland.

In conclusion, the medieval period offers a captivating journey into a world of knights, castles, and crusades. The wide range of research paper topics available allows students to explore different aspects of medieval history, shedding light on the political, cultural, religious, military, economic, intellectual, social, artistic, scientific, and regional dynamics of the time. By engaging with these topics, students can develop a deeper understanding of this transformative period in human history and appreciate its lasting impact on the world we live in today.

How to Choose Medieval History Research Paper Topics

Choosing a research paper topic in medieval history can be an exciting yet challenging task. With such a vast and diverse range of subjects to explore, it’s essential to narrow down your focus and select a topic that aligns with your interests and academic goals. Here are ten tips to help you choose a compelling and engaging medieval history research paper topic:

• Identify Your Interests : Start by reflecting on your personal interests within medieval history. Are you drawn to a specific time period, region, or theme? Consider the aspects that intrigue you the most and use them as a starting point for your topic selection.
• Conduct Preliminary Research : Begin your journey by conducting preliminary research on broad topics or themes in medieval history. Read books, scholarly articles, and reputable online resources to gain a general understanding of the subject matter and identify potential areas of further exploration.
• Consult Reference Works : Consult reference works such as encyclopedias, handbooks, and historiographies dedicated to medieval history. These resources can provide valuable insights, highlight key topics, and guide you towards specialized areas within the field.
• Engage with Recent Scholarship : Familiarize yourself with the latest research and scholarly debates in medieval history. Stay up-to-date with academic journals, conferences, and reputable websites to identify emerging topics and gaps in the existing scholarship that you can contribute to through your research.
• Consider Chronological and Geographic Factors : The medieval period spans over a thousand years and encompasses a wide range of regions. Narrow down your focus by selecting a specific time period or geographic area that interests you. For example, you could explore the High Middle Ages in Western Europe or the Islamic Golden Age in the Middle East.
• Explore Different Themes and Perspectives : Medieval history offers a rich tapestry of themes and perspectives to explore. Consider topics related to politics, religion, culture, art, society, economy, intellectual developments, or military conflicts. Think about how these themes intersect and influence each other.
• Examine Primary and Secondary Sources : Before finalizing your topic, evaluate the availability of primary and secondary sources. Assess the accessibility of relevant manuscripts, chronicles, letters, legal documents, archaeological artifacts, and other primary materials that can support your research.
• Consult with Your Advisor : Seek guidance from your academic advisor or professor. They can provide valuable insights, suggest potential topics based on their expertise, and help you refine your research question to ensure it aligns with the requirements of your assignment.
• Consider Comparative Studies : Explore the possibility of conducting comparative studies within medieval history. By comparing different regions, cultures, or time periods, you can analyze similarities, differences, and patterns that shed light on broader historical phenomena.
• Brainstorm and Refine : Take time to brainstorm ideas, create mind maps, or engage in discussions with peers and professors. Refine your topic by narrowing it down to a specific research question or thesis statement that is manageable within the scope of your research paper.

In conclusion, choosing a medieval history research paper topic requires careful consideration and exploration of your interests, available sources, and scholarly discourse. By following these ten tips, you can find a topic that ignites your passion, offers academic value, and allows you to make a unique contribution to the field of medieval history. Remember to select a topic that challenges you intellectually and aligns with the guidelines and objectives of your research paper assignment.

How to Write a Medieval History Research Paper

Writing a research paper on medieval history can be a rewarding and enlightening experience. It allows you to delve into the rich tapestry of the past, explore fascinating events and figures, and contribute to the scholarly understanding of the medieval period. To help you navigate the writing process, here are ten tips for crafting an engaging and well-researched medieval history research paper:

• Understand the Assignment : Familiarize yourself with the assignment guidelines, requirements, and expectations. Clarify any questions you have with your professor to ensure that you meet all the necessary criteria.
• Develop a Clear Thesis Statement : Formulate a clear and concise thesis statement that articulates the main argument or research question of your paper. Your thesis will provide a guiding framework for your research and analysis.
• Conduct In-Depth Research : Engage in thorough research to gather relevant and reliable sources. Explore primary sources such as manuscripts, chronicles, letters, and secondary sources such as books, articles, and scholarly journals. Evaluate the credibility and scholarly reputation of the sources you use.
• Organize Your Thoughts : Create an outline or a structured plan that outlines the main sections and subtopics of your research paper. This will help you maintain a logical flow of ideas and ensure that your arguments are well-organized.
• Analyze and Interpret Sources : When analyzing primary and secondary sources, critically evaluate their content, context, and bias. Look for patterns, themes, and arguments that emerge from your research and use them to support your thesis statement.
• Provide Historical Context : Situate your research within its historical context by providing background information on the time period, events, and individuals you are studying. Help your readers understand the significance of your topic in relation to the broader historical narrative.
• Incorporate Multiple Perspectives : Explore diverse perspectives and interpretations of the medieval period. Engage with different schools of thought, scholarly debates, and varying viewpoints to present a comprehensive and nuanced analysis of your topic.
• Use Proper Citation and Referencing : Ensure that you properly cite and reference all sources used in your research paper. Follow the citation style guidelines specified by your professor, whether it’s APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, or another format.
• Craft Engaging and Coherent Writing : Write clearly and concisely, using academic language appropriate for your discipline. Develop well-structured paragraphs that flow logically from one idea to the next. Use transitions to connect different sections of your paper.
• Revise and Edit : Set aside time for thorough revision and editing of your research paper. Review your work for clarity, coherence, grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors. Ensure that your arguments are well-supported and that your paper adheres to the required formatting guidelines.

In conclusion, writing a medieval history research paper requires careful planning, extensive research, and effective communication of your findings. By following these ten tips, you can craft a well-written and compelling paper that demonstrates your knowledge of the subject matter and contributes to the field of medieval history. Remember to allow yourself enough time for research, writing, and revision, and seek feedback from professors or peers to enhance the quality of your work.

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Menendez , Katie (January 2024) "Time and History in the early Anglo-Norman World: Durham c.1080-1130"

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Cardwell , Samuel (January 2023) "The Idea of Evangelisation in Latin Christianity from the Early Church to Bede"

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Finan , Alicia (September 2022) "The Book of the judgements of Calatarama: A case study of a Medieval Spanish Geomancy"

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Clemens , Sister Maria Parousia (July 2022) "My Sister My Bride: The Liturgical Rites of Monastic Profession and Consecration of Virgins in the Usage of Monastic Women in the Central Middle Ages"

Kinney , Shirley (March 2022) "The Origins of the Herbarium of Pseudo-Apuleius"

Wood , Hannah (October 2021), "Intersections of Voluntary and Involuntary Poverty:The Friars and the Lay Indigent in Late Medieval England, 1221–c.1430"

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Whedbee , Simon (November 2021), "Peter Comestor’s Lectures on the Gospel of Luke and its Glosses (c. 1163-8): A Critical Edition and Study"

Fatigati , Michael (August 2021) "Avicenna on Emotions: Their Nature and Significance for Knowledge and Morality"

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Laird,  Cameron (June 2021) "The Poetic Tradition of Anglo-Saxon Riddles"

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Fredette , Anthony (June 2021) "The Medieval Thebaid "

Brouillard , Lochin (May 2021) “Families of Flesh, Families of Spirit: Familial Conversions and Kinship in Medieval Hagiography (400-1200)”

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Schuman , Boaz (April 2021) “Modality and Validity in the Logic of John Buridan”

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Reeser , Sarah (2020) “The Whole Hand of the Giant: Geography, Vision, and Materiality in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Atlantic World”

Price , Daniel (2020) “Re-Imagining the World: Sanctity and Materiality in the Vitae of Sixth-Century Gaul”

Foley ,   David M. (2020) “Peter Comestor's Lectures on the  Glossa ordinaria  on John (ca. 1165): An Historical Introduction with a Critical Edition”

Warnes , Julia (2019) “Dúngal: A Study of his Life and Works”

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Tichenor,  Morris B. (2019) “Cicero’s Incomplete Orator: The Transmission and Reception of the Mutilus Text”

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Ekman,  Annika (2019) “Anselm of Laon, the  Glossa Ordinaria , and the Tangled Web of Twelfth-Century Psalms-Exegesis”

Schut,  Kirsten (2019) “A Dominican Master of Theology in Context: John of Naples and Intellectual Life Beyond Paris, ca. 1300-1350”

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Wheeler,  Nicholas (2018) “Perjury and False Witness in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”

Faibisoff,  Leah (2018) “Chancery Officials and the Business of Communal Administration in Republican Florence”

Wheaton,  Benjamin (2018) “Venantius Fortunatus and Christian Theology at the End of the Sixth Century in Gaul”

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Brielmaier,  Daniel (2017) “Selves and Subjectivities in Medieval North Atlantic Verse”

Wetmore,  Amanda (2017) “The Hermeneutics of Desire in Medieval English Devotional Literature”

Wakelin,  Jacob (2017) “Making History in High medieval Austria (1145-1203)–The Vorau Manuscript in its Secular and Spiritual Context”

Vucu,  Simona (2017) “Henry of Ghent and John Duns Scotus on Self-Agency and Self-Motion: An Inquiry into the Medieval Metaphysics of Causal Powers”

Lockhart,  Jessica (2017) “Everyday Wonders and Enigmatic Structures: Riddles from Symphosius to Chaucer”

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Jamison,  Daniel (2017) “Fiscal Policy in an Italian Commune: A Study of the Lucchese Gabella Maggiore, 1370-1410”

Landon,  Christopher (2017) “Conquest and Colonization in the Early Middle Ages: The Carolingians and Saxony, c. 751–842”

Allen,  Ryan (2017) “Visions of Unity: Philosophical Realism in Late Fourteenth-Century English Dream-Vision Poetry”

Zajac,  Natalia (2017)“Women Between West and East: the Inter-Rite Marriages of the Kyivan Rus’ Dynasty, ca. 1000-1204”

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Blakelock,  Emily (2017) “Doing It by the Book: Teaching Sexuality in the Twelfth-Century Classroom”

O’Hagan,  Peter (2017) “Teaching the Tradition: Twelfth Century Scholastic Commentaries on Paul’s Letter to the Romans”

Johnston,  Nick (2016) “ Vexatio Falsorum Fratrum : The Medieval Laybrother in the Order of Sempringham in Context”

Sutherland-Harris,  Robin (2016) “The Production and Use of Administrative Documents in Somerset from  Glanvill  to  Magna Carta ”

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Butler,  Colleen (2016) “Queering the classics: Gender, Genre, and Reception in the Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim”

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Miller,  Christopher (2016) “ die sah man weinen . The Representation of Emotion and Dispute in Middle High German Heroic Epic”

Dunning,  Andrew (2016) “Alexander Neckam’s Manuscripts and the Augustinian Canons of Oxford and Cirencester”

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Elson,  Madeleine (2016) “Chaucer’s French Sources — Literary and Codicological Play and the Author’s Persona”

Gugel,  David (2016) “The Social and Cultural Worlds of Elite Valencian Youth, 1300-1500”

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Bauder,  Rachel (2015) “Naming Particulars: A Thirteenth-Century Debate on Whether Individuals Have Proper Names”

Fabbro,  Eduardo (2015) “Society and Warfare in Lombard Italy (c.568-652)”

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Berard,  Christopher (2015) “Arthurus Redivivus: Arthurian Imitation in Early Plantagenet England, 1154-1307”

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Wilson,  Anna (2015) “Immature Pleasures: Affective Reading in Margery Kempe, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Modern Fan Communities”

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Wesson Garau,  Ann (2015) “Colonization and the Church in High Medieval Sardinia”

Kostoff-Kaard,  Jenny (2015) “The  Glossa Ordinaria  on Ecclesiastes: A Critical Edition with Introduction”

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Vienna

Chen Obrist,  Lisa (2015) “Time and How to Calculate It: A Study and Edition with Translation of Book 10 of Hrabanus Maurus’  De rerum naturis ”

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Lindeman,  Katherine (2015) “’Go Manfully’: Masculine Self-Fashioning in Late Medieval Dominican Sources”

Hutton Sharp,  Alice (2015) “ In Principio : The Origins of the  Glossa ordinaria  on Genesis 1-3”

Hayton,  Magda (2014) “Inflections of Prophetic Vision: The Reshaping of Hildegard of Bingen’s Apocalypticism as Represented by bridgments of the  Pentachronon”

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Lamont,  George (2014) “The Present Participle as a Marker of Style and Authorship in Old English Biblical Translation”

Kim,  Eileen (2014) “The Tailors, Drapers, and Mercers of London and the Commissary and Husting Court Wills, 1374-1485”

Haynes,  Justin (2014) “Recovering the Classic: Twelfth-Century Latin Epic and the Virgilian Tradition”

Piudik,  Jaclyn (2014) “Hybridity in the Fourteenth-Century Esther Poems of Israel Caslari”

Watkins,  Elizabeth (2014) “French Romance and English Piety: Genre and Codex in Insular Romance”

Shaw,  Richard (2013) “How an Early Medieval Historian Worked: Methodology and Sources in Bede’s Narrative of the Gregorian Mission to Kent”

Teague,  Sharon (2013) “Patterns of Bequest within the Family: Testamentary Evidence from the Ecclesiastical Registers of Canterbury and York c. 1340-1440”

Buchanan,  Peter (2013) “Phenomenal Anglo-Saxons: Perceptions, Adaptation, and the Poetic Imagination”

• Associate Professor, New Mexico Highlands University

Barbezat,  Michael (2013) “Doubt, Faith, and the World to Come in Peter of Cornwall’s  Book of Revelations ”

• Research Fellow, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Australian Catholic University

Sharp,  Tristan (2013) “William of Pagula’s  Speculum religiosorum  and its Background: Law, Pastoral Care and Religious Formation for Monks, c.1215-c.1350

” Elliot,  Michael (2013) “Canon Law Collections in England  ca  600-1066: The Manuscript Evidence”

Marshall , Helen (2013) “Literary Codicologies: The Conditions of Middle English Literary Production, c. 1280-1415”

Oeltjen , Natalie (2012)  “ Crisis and Regeneration: The Conversos of Majorca, 1391-1416 ”

Snow , Clare (2012)  “ Maria Mediatrix : Mediating the Divine in the Devotional Literature of Late Medieval and Early Modern England”

Langeslag , Paul (2012)  “Seasonal Setting and the Human Domain in Early English and Early Scandinavian Literature”

Hamonic,  Nicole (2012) “The Order of St. John of Jerusalem in London and Middlesex c.1128-c.1442: A Social and Economic Study based on the Hospitaller Cartulary, British Library Cotton MS Nero E vi”

Bolintineanu , Alexandra (2012)  “Towards A Poetics of Marvellous Spaces in Old and Middle English Narrative”

• Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Centre for Medieval Studies / Woodsworth College, U of T

Lalonde , Shaun (2012) “Poetry by Theorists: the Troubadours and the Early Italian Lyric”

Elema , Ariella (2012) “ Trial by Battle in France and England ”

Tyrrell , Alice (2012) “Merovingian Letters and Letter Writers”

Knudsen , Christian (2012)  “Naughty Nuns and Promiscuous Monks: Monastic Sexual Misconduct in Late medieval England”

• Professor of Cultural History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sheridan College

Pelle , Stephen (2012)  “Continuity and Renewal in English Homiletic Eschatology, ca. 1150-1200”

• Associate Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies, U of T

Mills , Kristen (2012) “Grief, Gender and Mourning in Medieval North Atlantic Literature”

Bishop , Adam  “Criminal Law and the Development of the Assizes of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century”

Brower , Susannah  “Gender, Power, and Persona in the Poetry of Baudri of Bourgueil”

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Geck , John “The Auchinleck Manuscript and the Aesthetics of Ambiguity: A Comparative Manuscript Study”

• Associate Professor of English, Memorial University

Goddard , Victoria  “Poetry and Philosophy in Boethius and Dante”

Gos , Giselle “Constructing the Female Subject in Anglo-Norman, Middle English and Medieval Irish Romance”

Greenwood , Ryan  “Law and War in Late Medieval Italy: the Jus Commune on War and its Application in Florence,  c . 1150-1450”

Hartman , Peter “Durand of St.-Pourçain on Cognitive Acts: Their Cause, Ontological Status, and Intentional Character”

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Hicks , Andrew “Music, Myth, and Metaphysics: Harmony in Twelfth-Century Cosmology and Natural Philosophy”

Mitchell , Laura  “Cultural Uses of magic in Fifteenth-Century England”

Butler , Emily  “Textual Community and Linguistic Distance in Early England”

Robinson , Jonathan  “William of Ockham’s Early theory of Property Rights: Sources, Texts, and Contexts”

Heuchan , Valerie  “All Things to All Men: Representations of the Apostle Paul in Anglo-Saxon Literature”

Major , Tristan  “Literary Developments of the Table of Nations and the Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon England”

Budde , Timothy  “The  Versio Dionysii  of John Scottus Eriugena. A Study of the Manuscript Tradition and Influence of Eriugena’s Translation of the  Corpus Areopagiticum  from the 9th through the 12th century”

• Professor, Vanier College

Sheldon , Gwendolyn  “The Conversion of the Vikings in Ireland and the Early History of the Diocese of Dublin”

Salzer , Kathryn  “A Socio-Economic Study of the Cistercian Abbey of Vaucelles and its Granges of Baudival and Ribaucourt”

Langenwalter , Anna  “Agobard of Lyon: An Exploration of Carolingian Jewish-Christian Relations”

Viezure , Iuliana Dana  “ Verbum Crucis, Virtus Dei : A Study of Theopaschism from the Council of Chalcedon (451) to the Age of Justinian”

Ghosh , Shami  “The Barbarian Past in Early Medieval Historical Narrative”

Fallon , Nicole  “The Cross as Tree: The Wood-of-the-Cross Legends in Middle English and Latin Texts in Medieval England”

Allen , Kristen  “ Sicut scintilla ignis in medio maris : Theological Despair in the Works of Isidore of Seville, Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, and Dante Alighieri”

• Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, UTM

Reeves , Andrew  “Teaching the Creed and Articles of Faith in England: Lateran IV to  Ignorantia sacerdotum ”

• Associate Professor, History, Middle Georgia State University

Cooley , Alice  “Get A Room: Private Space and Private People in Old French and Middle English Love Stories”

Johnson , Maire  “Holy Body, wholly other: sanctity and society in the  Lives  of Irish saints”

McCabe , T. Matthew  “Ethics, Rhetorical Accommodation, and Vernacularity in Gower’s  Confessio Amantis ”

Reiner , Emily  “The Ambiguous Greek in Old French and Middle English Literature”

Adams , Anthony  “Heroic Slaughter and Versified Violence: A Reading of Sacrifice in Some Early English and Carolingian Poetry of War”

Herold , Jonathan  “Memoranda and Memoria: Assessing the Preservation of Acta at Eleventh-Century Worcester Cathedral”

Slavin , Philip  “Feeding the Brethren: Grain Provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory,  c.  1280–1370”

Getz , Robert  “Four Blickling Homilies”

• Assistant Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies, U of T

Kessler , Rachel  “Reading Gnomic Phenomena in Old English Literature”

Harney , Eileen  “The Sexualized and Gendered Tortures of Virgin Martyrs in Medieval English Literature”

• Assistant Professor of English / Foreign Languages, University of Alaska Fairbanks

McBrine , Patrick  “The English Inheritance of Biblical Verse”

• Associate Professor, English, Bishop's University

Newman , Jonathan  “Satire of Counsel, Counsel of Satire: Representing Advisory Relations in Later Medieval Literature”

• Clif and Gail Smart Professor of English, Missouri State University

Sheehan , Sarah  “Gender and Sexuality in Early Irish Saga”

Carraway , Joanna  “Inquisition Procedure, Due Process, and Defendants’ Rights: Reggio Emilia, 1371-1409”

• Professor of History, Rockhurst University

Grove , Jonathan  “The Contest of Verse-Making in Old Norse-Icelandic Skaldic Poetry”

Reid , Jennifer  “‘Caro verbum factum est’: Incarnations of Word in Early English and Celtic Texts”

Schulze , Catherine  “Pro Turpitudine Vitae: The Expulsion of Nuns in the Dioceses of Paris and Laon, 1100-1150”

Zak , Gur  “Writing from Exile: Petrarch’s Humanism and the Ethics of Care of the Self”

• Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies / Head of the Institute of Literatures, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Kooistra , James Milton  “From Humanism to the Reformation: Letters of Recommendation in Early Modern Germany (1490-1560)”

Black , Winston  “The Medieval Archdeacon in Canon Law, with a case study of the Diocese of Lincoln”

• Gatto Chair in Christian Studies, St Francis Xavier University

Monette , Connell  “A Comparative Study of the Hero in Medieval Ireland, Persia, and England”

Fleming , Damian  “The Most Exalted Language: Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of Hebrew”

• Associate Professor, English, Purdue University

Krug , Ilana  “Royal Prerogative Gone Astray: The Social and Economic Impact of Purveyance on the English Peasantry at the Beginning of the Hundred Years’ War”

• Associate Professor of History, York College of Pennsylvania 

Acken , James  “History and Terminology in the Auraicept na nEces”

• Creative Director, Acken Studios

Powrie , Sarah  “The Infinite Sphere: The History of a Metaphor in Theology, Science and Literature (1100-1613)”

• Professor of English, St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan

Campbell , Kirsty  “Reginald Pecock’s Vision of Religious Education for ‘All Cristen Peple’ in Fifteenth-Century England”

• Teacher, English, John Abbott College. 

Fynn , Paul Jeffrey  “The Catalan City of Manressa in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: A Political, Social and Economic History”

Miles , Brent  “Middle Irish Saga and Irish Neoclassicism”

• Associate Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies / University of St. Michael's College, U of T

Marshall , Christina  “Late Medieval Liturgical Offices in Acrostic Form: A Catalogue and Study”

Graff , Eric  “The Transmission and Reception of the  Cloud of Unknowing  and the Works of the  Cloud -corpus”

Doyle , Matthew  “The Career and Students of Peter Lombard”

Sherwood , Jessie  “Jewish Conversion from the Sixth through the Twelfth Century”

• Associate Librarian, Robbins Collection and Research Center, Berkeley Law

Cels , Marc  “Anger in Dominican and Franciscan Pastoral and Homiletic Literature Before 1350”

• Associate Professor, History, Athabasca University

Rutten , Stuart  “Battles at the Ford: an Introduction to the Tradition of Comrac Fir Diad, with editions of the later versions of the tale”

Dzon , Mary  “The Image of the Wanton Christ-Child in the Apocryphal Infancy Legends of Late Medieval England”

• Associate Professor, English, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Wiljer , David  “Reading for a Conscience: Moral Instruction in Saint Ambrose of Milan’s Commentary on Psalm CXVIII”

Yeager , Suzanne  “England’s Quest for Jerusalem: Fourteenth-Century Literature of Crusade and Pilgrimage”

• Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Fordham University

Ponesse , Matthew  “Learning in the Carolingian Court: Compilation and Innovation in the Writings of Smaragdus of St. Mihiel”

• Associate Professor of History, Ohio Dominican University

Conti , Aidan  “Preaching Scripture and Apocrypha: A Previously Unidentified Homiliary in an Old English Manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 343”

Downey , Sarah  “Intertextuality in the Lives of St. Guthlac”

• Associate Professor, English, Pennsylvania Western University

Masemann , Charlotte  “Garden Produce in Medieval Ghent and Lübeck”

• Policy Analyst, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Saurette , Marc  “Rhetorics of Reform: Abbot Peter the Venerable and the Twelfth-Century Rewriting of the Cluniac Monastic Project”

• Associate Professor of History, Carleton University

Parsons , Sylvia  “The Representation of the Body in Twelfth-Century Latin Epic: The Alexandreis of Walter of Châtillon and the Ylias of Joseph of Exeter”

Anderson , Katherine  “Youth, Gender and Identity in Welsh Princely Families, 1075-1240”

Cowan , Mairi  “Lay Piety in Scotland before the Protestant Reformation: Individuals, Communities, and Nation”

• Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Historical Studies, UTM

McLuhan , Elizabeth  “With power from the king and blessing from the Church: the Representation of a Christian Missionary in the vita Amandi prima”

Sundaram , Mark  “The Conceptualisation of Futurity in Old English”

Cichon , Michael “Shame on Thy Beard! A Study of Insult, Redress and the Process of Law in Two ‘Owein’ Romances”

• Associate Professor, St. Thomas More College

Follett , Westley “Monastic Devotion in Ireland: The Céli Dé movement in the eight and ninth centuries”

Jagger , Holly “Body, Text and Self in Old English Verse: A Study of “Beowulfian” and “Cynewulfian” Rhetoric”

Gourlay , Kristina “‘Faire Maide’ or ‘Venomous Serpente’: The Cultural Significance of the Saracen Princess Floripas in France and England, 1200-1500”

Sutherland , Jenifer “The Inexpressible Self: Biblical Autobiography in the Poetry of Walter of Wimborne and The Book of Margery Kempe”

Thiery , Daniel “Polluting the Sacred: Violence and Religion in English Daily Life c. 1400-1553”

Killings , Steve “ ‘Vos qui concupiscitis’ or Ludus Filiorum Israel: A Critical Edition of a 14th Century Processus Prophetarum from Cambridge”

Ruff , Carin “The Hidden Curriculum: Syntax in Anglo-Saxon Latin Teaching”

Joyce , Ellen “Visions, Reading and Identity in the Monastic Culture of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Otloh of St. Emmeram and Guibert of Nogent”

• Associate Professor, History, Beloit College

Roy , Neil “The Ritual of Valva-Sulmona (Lucca, Biblioteca Statale 1781): A Twelfth-Century Collection of Ordines in Beneventan Script. A Diplomatic Edition with Introductory Study and Notes”

Davidson , Mary Catherine “Language-Mixing and Code-Switching in England in the Late Medieval Period”

• Associate Professor of English, York University

Eardley Peter “Giles of Rome’s Theory of the Will”

• Professor of Philosophy, University of Guelph

Corona , Gabriella “Ælfric’s Life of Saint Basil and its Latin Background”

Kurt , Andrew “Minting, State and Economy in the Visigothic Kingdom ca.418-ca.713”

• Associate Professor of History, Clayton State University

Falk , Oren “The Cultural Construction of Violence in medieval Western Scandinavia”

• Professor of History, Cornell University

Harris , Jennifer “The Place of the Jerusalem Temple in the Reform of the Church in the Eleventh Century”

• Associate Professor, Religious Studies, University of Toronto

Mackie , Evelyn “Robert Grosseteste’s Chasteu d’amur: A Text in Context”

David , Barry Alan. “St Augustine on Divine Foreknowledge”

• Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ave Maria University

Eaton , Ellen Wehner. “Shame Culture or Guilt Culture: The Evidence of the Medieval French Fabliaux”

Hay , David John. “The Campaigns of Countess Matilda of Canossa (1046-1115): An Analysis of the History and Social Significance of a Woman’s Military Leadership”

• Associate Professor, History and Religion, University of Lethbridge

Hunt , Laura Elaine. “Tudor Politics, Tuscan Ambition: A Florentine Diplomat and Intelligencer in Sixteenth-Century Europe”

Smith , Liesl Ruth. “Virginity and the Married-Virgin Saints in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints: The Translation of an Ideal”

• Assistant Director of Seminary Grants, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Bychkov , Oleg V. “A Propos of Medieval Aesthetics: A Historical Study of Terminology, Sources, and Textual Traditions of Commenting on Beauty in the Thirteenth Century”

• Associate Professor, Theology, / Directo,r Native American and Indigenous Studies program, St Bonaventure University

Catlos , Brian Aivars “The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of the Ebro Valley (Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries)”

• Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder

Dinkova-Bruun , Greti. “Alexander of Ashby’s Breuissima comprehensio historiarum: A Critical Edition with Annotation”

• Fellow / Library Director, PIMS

Leverage , Paula E. “The Chanson de Geste and Memory”

• Associate Professor of French, Purdue University

LeVert , Laurelle Marie. “The Rhetoric of Response: Affectivity and Didacticism in Middle English Devotional Experiences of the Passion”

Moll , Richard J. “Facts and Fictions: Chronicle, Romance, and Arthurian Narrative in England, 1300–1470”

• Professor of English, University of Western Ontario

Shawver , Gary W. “A Chaucerian Narratology: ‘Story’ and ‘Tale’ in Chaucer’s Narrative Practice”

Still , Carl N. “Aquinas’s Theory of Human Self-Knowledge”

• Associate Professor of Philosophy and President, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan

Fizzard , Allison Dawn. “The Augustinian Canons of Plympton Priory and their Place in English Church and Society, 1121–c. 1400”

• Associate Professor of History, Campion 

Graham , Barry Frederic Hunter. “Utraquist Eucharistic Liturgy in the Jagiellonian Era”

Haines , Dorothy Ina. “Rhetorical Strategies in Old English Prose: A Study of Three Dramatic Monologues”

Klein , Thomas Peter. “The ‘Coarser’ Senses in Old English: A Study of the Old English Verbs of Tasting, Smelling, Touching, and Perceiving”

• Professor of English, Idaho State University

Low  Soon Ai. “The Anglo-Saxon Mind: Metaphor and Common Sense Psychology in Old English Literature”

McGlynn , Margaret. “The King and the Law: Prerogativa regis in Early Tudor England”

• Professor / Vice Provost, Academic Planning, Policy & Faculty, Western University

Mallette , Karla. “Medieval Sicilian Lyric Poetry: Poets at the Courts of Roger II and Frederick II”

• Professor of Italian, University of Michigan Ann Arbor

Wakelin , Grace Lucile. “Standards of Living in the Commune of Namur, 1263–1429”

Carpenter , Jennifer Helen. “A New Heaven and a New Earth: A Study of the Vitae of the mulieres religiosae of Liège”

Conybeare , Catherine. “The Expression of Christianity: Themes from the Letters of Paulinus of Nola”

• Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities, Bryn Mawr College

DeSantis , Carla. “The Grammatical Compendium Commonly Attributed to Folchino dei Borfoni (14th c.): A Critical Edition and Study”

Esposito , Lisa Marie. “Pseudo-Dionysius: A Philosophical Study of Certain Hellenic Sources”

Kulikowski , Michael. “The End of Roman Spain”

• Professor of History and Classics, Penn State University

Pierre , Teresa Olsen. “ ‘That we may glorify Him in our bodies’: William of St Thierry’s Views of the Human Body”

Armstrong , Lawrin David. “The Tractatus de materia montis of Lorenzo Ridolfi: Edited from Florence, Biblioteca nazionale centrale, fondo principale II, III, 366”

• Professor Emeritus, Centre for Medieval Studies, U of T

Burnam , Hope Lampert. “The Alphabetum catholicorum of Arnaldus of Villanova: An Edition and Study”

Driver , Lisa D. Maugans. “Christian Society and Moral Values in the Homilies of Asterius of Amaseia” Jankulak , Karen Anne. “The Cult of St Petroc in Cornwall and Brittany c. 550 to c. 1250”

• Associate Professor of Theology, Valparaiso University

Jordan , Elizabeth Alexandra. “Historical Writing in Visigothic Spain from c. 468 to the Arab Invasion of 711”

Lundell , William Paul. “Carthusian Policy and the Council of Basel”

• Associate Professor of History, Mount Allison University

Osmann , Michael Peter. “Personal Wealth in Hurstingstone Hundred, Huntingdonshire, 1479–1558: A Study of Continuity in the Early Tudor Countryside”

• Translator, AAD Abies

Sella , Barbara Anna. “Piety and Poor Relief: Confraternities in Medieval Cremona c. 1334–1499”

Traver , Andrew Garrett. “The Identification of the vita apostolica with a Life of Itinerant Preaching and Mendicancy: Its Origins, Adherents, and Critics ca 1050–1266”

• Associate Professor of History, Southeastern Louisiana University

Valls , Helen Elizabeth. “Studies on Roger Frugardi’s Chirurgia”

Beattie , Pamela May. “Evangelization, Reform, and Eschatology: Mission and Crusade in the Thought of Ramon Llull”

Chapman , Don William. “Stylistic Use of Nominal Compounds in Wulfstan’s Sermons”

Cohen , Marc Stuart. “The Ethnographic Dimensions of Conversion: A Study of Conversion Narratives in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages”

Firey , Abigail A. “Toward a History of Carolingian Legal Culture: Canon Law Collections of Early Medieval Southern Gaul”

• Professor of History, University of Kentucky

Ginther , James R. “The Super Psalterium of Robert Grosseteste (ca 1170–1253): A Scholastic Psalms Commentary as a Source for Medieval Ecclesiology”

• Associate Director / Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies / University of St. Michael's College, U of T

Jones , Christopher Andrew. “Ælfric’s Letter to the Monks of Eynsham: A Study of the Text and its Sources”

• Professor of English, Ohio State University

Kitchen , John. “The Image of Sanctity and the Depiction of Holy Women in the Prose Biographies of Venantius Fortunatus, the Liber vitae patrum of Gregory of Tours, and the Vita Sanctae Radegundis of Baudonivia: A Comparative Study”

• Associate Professor of History, University of Alberta

Kuzdale , Ann Elizabeth. “The Dialogues of Pope Gregory the Great in the Literary and Religious Culture of Seventh- and Eighth-Century Europe”

• Associate Professor of History, Chicago State University

O’Callaghan , Tamara Faith. “Love Imagery in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie, John Gower’s Confessio amantis, and Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde”

• Associate Professor of English, Northern Kentucky University

Pick , Lucy Kristina. “Christians and Jews in Thirteenth-Century Castile: The Career and Writings of Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Archbishop of Toledo (1209–1247)”

Ritch , K. Janet. “A Critical Edition of Eloy Du Mont’s La resurrection de Jesuschrist”

Rivers , Kimberly Ann. “Memory and the Mendicant Orders in the Later Middle Ages”

Schutz , Andrea K. “Theriomorphic Shape-Shifting: An Experimental Reading of Identity and Metamorphosis in Selected Medieval British Texts”

• Professor for Excellence in Teaching, St. Thomas University

Seeley , Andrew T. “St Thomas Aquinas on the Necessity Of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit for Salvation”

Taylor , Daniel S. “Bernold of Constance, Canonist and Liturgist of the Gregorian Reform: An Analysis of the Sources in the Micrologus de ecclesiasticis observationibus”

Wagner , Karen Teresa. “De vera et falsa penitentia: An Edition and Study”

Allen , Michael Idomir. “History in the Carolingian Renewal: Frechulf of Lisieux (fl. 830), his Work and Influence”

• Associate Professor of Classics, University of Chicago

Ayoub , Lois Jean. “John Crophill’s Books: An Edition of British Library MS. Harley 1735”

Driver , Steven David. “The Reading of Egyptian Monastic Culture in John Cassian”

Dumol , Paul Arvisu. “The Metaphysics of Reading Underlying Dante’s Commedia: The ingegno”

Findon , Joanne Alice. “Emer and the Roles of Female Characters in the Medieval Irish Ulster Cycle”

• Professor of English Literature, Trent University

Forman , Mary, OSB. “Scriptural Exegesis in the Rule of Benedict”

Gillett , Andrew Keith. “Envoys and Diplomacy in The Early Medieval West, 411–533”

• Associate Professor of Ancient History, Macquarie University

Harbus , Antonina Jane. “Dreams in Old English Literature”

• Professor of English, Macquarie University

Hilken , Charles. “Monastic Remembrances of the Dead: In the Shadows of Monte Cassino and Santa Sofia di Benevento. An Edition and Study of the Necrology of Santa Maria del Gualdo Mazzocca”

• Professor of History, St. Mary’s College of California

Olsen , Karin Edith. “Metaphorical Language in the Early Poetry of Northwest Europe”

• Senior Lecturer in English, University of Groningen

Schlow , Deborah Ellen. “The Use of Bishops’ Registers in the Study of Ecclesiastical Administrative Practices in Fourteenth-Century Spain: A Comparison of the Dioceses of Barcelona and Girona”

Stanton , Robert George. “Translation and Anglo-Saxon Hagiography: Abbo of Fleury’s Passion of St Edmund and Ælfric’s Old English Translation”

• Associate Professor of English, Boston College

Fanger , Claire. “Signs of Power and the Power of Signs: Medieval Modes of Address to the Problem of Magical and Miraculous Signifiers”

• Associate Professor of Religion, Rice University

Gwara , Scott James. “Literary Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England and the Old English and Latin Glosses to Aldhelm’s Prosa de virginitate”

• Professor of English, University of South Carolina

McKee , Sally. “Uncommon Dominion: The Latins and Greeks of Fourteenth-Century Venetian Crete”

Megginson , David. “The Written Language of Old English Poetry”

Sandor , Monica. “The Popular Preaching of Jacques de Vitry”

• Translator / Editor, FSMA

Sinex , Margaret Ann. “Irony of Walter Map’s De nugis curialium”

Twetten , David Brian. “Aquinas and the Prime Mover of Aristotle: A Study of the Medieval Demonstration of God’s Existence from Motion”

• Associate Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University

Wehlau , Ruth Cecile. “The Riddle of Creation: Some Metaphor Structures in Old English Poetry”

Abrams , Lesley J. “The Pre-Conquest Endowment of Glastonbury Abbey: The Growth of an Anglo-Saxon Church”

• Professor of Early Medieval History (retired), University of Oxford

Adamson , John Douglas. “Placentini Summa institutionum: Edition with Introduction”

Bardoel , Agatha Anna Caecilia. “Vision or Union? Mystical Expression in the Visions of Hadewijch of Brabant (c. 1250)”

Beattie , Blake Raymond. “Aspects and Problems of Avignonese Legations to Italy: The Mission of Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, 1326–1334”

• Associate Professor of History, University of Louisville

Kolbaba , Tia M. “Heresy and Culture: Lists of the Errors of the Latins in Byzantium”

• Associate Professor of Byzantine Studies, Rutgers University

Lafferty , Maura Keyne. “Reading Latin Epic: Walter of Châtillon’s Alexandreis”

• Associate Professor of Classics, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Momma , Haruko. “Composition and Comprehension: The Grammar of Old English Poetry”

• Professor of English, New York University

Ross , Jill. “Corporeality and Textuality in Selected Medieval Hispanic Texts, ca 400–1350”

• Associate Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies, Centre for Comparative Literature, Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, U of T

Rousseau , Constance M. “Marriage, Sexuality, and Family in the Letters of Pope Innocent III (1198–1216)”

• Professor of History, Providence College

Worthen , Jeremy Frederick. “The Self in the Text: Guigo I the Carthusian, William of St Thierry, and Hugh of St Victor”1991

Amstutz , Renate. “The Latin Substratum of the Thuringian Ludus de decem virginibus: Its Liturgical Roots and its Dramatic Relevance for the Mixed-Language Music Drama”

Burman , Thomas E. “Spain’s Arab Christians and Islam, c. 1050–1200: The Text of the Liber denudationis (alias Contrarietas alfolica) and its Intellectual Milieu”

• Professor of History, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Chandler , Paul, O. Carm. “The Liber de institucione et peculiaribus gestis religiosorum Carmelitarum in lege veteri exortorum et in nova perseverancium ad Caprasium monachum by Felip Ribot, O. Carm.: A Critical Edition with an Introduction”

Cropp , Laurel Susan. “A Critical Edition of Alexander Neckam’s Corrogationes noui Promethei with Introduction, Textual Notes, and Commentary”

Drendel , John Victor. “Society and Economy in a Medieval Provençal Town: Trets, 1296–1347”

• Professor of History, UQAM

Hassell , James Woodrow, III. “Thomas Sampson’s Dictaminal Treatises and the Teaching of French in Medieval England: An Edition and Study”

Kerr , Margaret Helen. “Catholic Church and Common Law: Three Studies in the Influence of the Church on English Law”

Pearson , Paul Alan. “Instrumental Creation and Justification in St Thomas’s Scriptum super libros Sententiarum”

Pedersen , Frederik J. G. “Marriage Litigation and the Ecclesiastical Courts in York in the Fourteenth Century”

• Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Aberdeen

Pobst , Phyllis E. “The Register of William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich, A.D. 1344–1355”

• Associate Professor of History, Arkansas State University

Singman , Jeffrey Louis. “From Heorot to Elsinore: Denmark and the Danes in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature”

Treschow , Michael. “A Study of the ece Word-Group, and its Use in the Alfredian Translations”

Africa, Dorothy C. “The Politics of Kin: Women and Preeminence in a Medieval Irish Hagiographical List”

Arges, Michael. “Divine Self-Expression Through Human Merit According to Thomas Aquinas”

Baker, Deirdre F. “Pictor in carmine, uel Adaptatio rerum gestarum in Veteri Testamento ad Nouum: A Critical Edition”

Binkley, Peter. “Thirteenth-Century Latin Poetry Contests Associated with Henry of Avranches, with an Appendix of Newly Edited Texts”

Echard, Siân. “Expectation and Experimentation in Medieval Arthurian Narrative: A Study of Anglo-Latin, Middle English, and Middle Welsh Texts”

• Professor of English, UBC

Girsch, James Martin. “An Edition with Commentary of John Mirk’s Manuale sacerdotis”

Guderian, Gregory Joseph. “The Palaeography of Later Roman Cursive”

Head, Pauline Elizabeth. “Representation and Design: Tracing a Hermeneutics of Old English Poetry”

Johnson, Mark F. “The Sapiential Character of sacra doctrina in the Thought of St Thomas Aquinas: The Appropriation of Aristotle’s Intellectual Virtue of Wisdom”

Masschaele, James. “A Regional Economy in Medieval England”

• Professor of Medieval History, Rutgers University

Openshaw, Kathleen M. J.† “Images, Texts, and Contexts: The Iconography of the Tiberius Psalter, London, British Library, Cotton MS. Tiberius C.VI”

Wilkin, Gregory Joseph. “Regular Knighthood and Old French Grail Romance”

Boyle, John F. “The Structural Setting of Thomas Aquinas’s Theology of the Grace of Christ as He is Head of the Church in the Summa theologiae”

• Professor of Catholic Studies and Theology, University of St. Thomas

Elliott, Dyan H. “Spiritual Marriage: A Study of Chaste Wedlock in the Middle Ages”

• Professor of History, Northwestern University

Kleinberg, Aviad Moshe. “Prophets in Their Own Country: The Acquisition of a Saintly Reputation in the Later Middle Ages”

• Professor of History, Tel Aviv University

Stentz, Marcia J. “A Calendar and Study of a Consistory Court Record from the Diocese of Ely, 1374–1382”

Taylor, John Andrew. “Narrative Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England”

Brock, Stephen Louis. “The Legal Character of Natural Law According to St Thomas Aquinas”

• Professor of Philosophy, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross

Eska, Joseph F. “Towards an Interpretation of the Hispano-Celtic Inscription of Botorrita”

Kirkwood, Anna D. “The Tractatus moralis super quatuor elementa of Walter of Wimborne: An Edition of Selected Portions”

Mulchahey, Marian Michèle. “Dominican Education and the Dominican Ministry in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Fra Jacopo Passavanti and the Florentine Convent of Santa Maria Novella”

• Professor and Leonard Boyle Chair in Manuscript Studies, PIMS

Olson, Sherri Lynne. “Ellington, a Village at Farm 1280–1600: Local Traditions and Local Leadership in the Medieval and Early Modern Village Community”

• Professor of History, University of Connecticut

Stevens Girsch, Elizabeth Baldwin. “A Semantic Analysis of Old English crft and Related Words”

Sweetman, Robert S. “Dominican Preaching in the Southern Low Countries 1240-1260: Materiae praedicabiles in the Liber de natura rerum and Bonum universale de apibus of Thomas of Cantimpré”

• Professor / H. Evan Runner Chair in the History of Philosophy, Institute for Christian Studies

Black, Deborah Louise. “The Logical Dimension of Rhetoric and Poetics: Aspects of Non-Demonstrative Reasoning in Medieval Arabic Philosophy”

• Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies / Department of Philosophy / Department for the Study of Religion, U of T

Black, Jonathan Glenn. “The Daily Cursus, the Week, and the Psalter in the Divine Office and in Carolingian Devotion”

De Looze, Laurence Neil. “The mise en scène of the Poetic Process in Fourteenth-Century Pseudo-Biographical and ¬-Auto¬biographical Narratives”

• Professor of Comparative Literature, Western University

DeVries, Kelly Robert. “Perceptions of Victory and Defeat in the Southern Low Countries During the Fourteenth Century: A Historiographical Comparison”

• Professor, Loyola University Maryland / Distinguished Professor, United States Air Force Academy

Dobbs-Weinstein, Idit. “The Concept of Providence in the Thought of Moses Maimonides and St Thomas Aquinas”

• Associate Professor of Jewish Studies / Philosophy, Vanderbilt University

Dohar, William J. “Pastoral Care after the Black Death: The Diocese of Hereford, 1327–1404”

• Senior Lecturer, Religious Studies, Santa Clara University

Malsbary, Gerald. “The Epic Hagiography of Paulinus of Périgueux”

Meyerson, Mark Douglas. “Between convivencia and Crusade: The Muslim Minority of the Kingdom of Valencia during the Reign of Fernando ‘el Católico’”

• Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies / Department of History

Murray, Jacqueline. “The Perceptions of Sexuality, Marriage, and Family in Early English Pastoral Manuals”

• Professor Emerita, University of Guelph / Visiting Fellow, University of St. Michael's College, U of T

Noone, Timothy Brian. “An Edition and Study of the Scriptum super Metaphysicam, bk. 12, dist. 2: A Work Attributed to Richard Rufus of Cornwall”

• Father Kurt Pritzl Chair in Philosophy, Catholic University of America

Tiner, Elza Cheryl. “Inventio, dispositio, and elocutioin the York Trial Plays”

Bethune, Brian. “The Text of the Christian Rite of Marriage in Medieval Spain”

Magee, John Cornell. “Truth, Discourse, and Mind in Boethius”

Solterer, Helen. “‘Acorder li chans au dit’: The Lyric Voice in French Medieval Narrative (1220–1320)”

• Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University

Thompson, Pauline Ann. “Pestilence and Skin Disease: Two Studies in the Vocabulary of Illness in Old English Saints’ Lives and their Sources”

Cole, Penny Jane. “The Preaching of the Crusades to the Holy Land, 1095–1270”

Grier, James Norman. “Transmission in the Aquitanian Versaria of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries”

• Professor of Music History, Western University

Izydorczyk, Zbigniew. “The Legend of the Harrowing of Hell in Middle English Literature”

• Professor of English, University of Winnipeg

Porter, Nancy Anne. “Through a Gloss Darkly: An Edition of Aldhelm’s Riddles in the Glossed Manuscript British Library Royal 12.c.xxiii”

Stoclet, Alain J. “Fulrad de Saint-Denis (v. 710–784)”

Townsend, David Robert. “An Edition of Saints’ Lives Attributed to Henry of Avranches”

Wallis, Faith Elena. “MS. Oxford, St John’s College, 17: A Mediaeval Manuscript in its Context”

• Professor, History and Classical Studies, McGill

Zawilla, Ronald John. “The Historiae corporis Christi Attributed to Thomas Aquinas: A Theological Study of their Biblical Sources”

Donatelli, Joseph M. “An Edition of Death and Liffe”

Shopkow, Leah. “Norman Historical Writing in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries”

• Associate Professor of History, Indiana University Bloomington

Snyder, Steven C. “Albert the Great’s Analysis of Time in its Historical and Doctrinal Setting”

• Associate Professor of Philosophy, Christendom College

Utterback, Kristine Tude. “Episcopal Administration in the Diocese of Barcelona, 1345–1351”

• Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Wyoming

Waite, Gregory George. “The Vocabulary of the Old English Version of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica”

Wright, Phyllis Madeleine Clare. “Literary Translation in Anglo-Saxon England”

[Buchwald] Price, Betsey Barker. “The Astronomy of Albertus Magnus”

• Professor, History and Multidisciplinary Studies, Glendon College, York University

Carlin, Martha. “The Urban Development of Southwark, c. 1200 to 1550”

• Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Carlson, David Richard. “Structural Similarities Between the Literatures of Mysticism and fin’ amors”

Cizewski, Wanda. “The Doctrine of Creation in the First Half of the Twelfth Century: Selected Authors (Rupert of Deutz, Honorius Augustodunensis, Peter Abelard, and Hugh of St Victor)”

Droste, Diane Lynne. “The Musical Notation and Transmission of the Music of the Sarum Use, 1225–1500”

Gyug, Richard. “An Edition of Leningrad, Ban, F. no. 200: The Lectionary and Pontifical of Kotor”

• Professor of History and Medieval Studies, Fordham University

Hackett, Jeremiah M. G. “The Meaning of Experimental Science (scientia experimentalis) in the Philosophy of Roger Bacon”

• Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina

Laird, Walter Roy. “The scientiae mediae in Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics”

• Professor of History, Carleton University

Shore, Lys Ann T. “Three Treatises on Comets in Middle French: A Study of the Development of a Vernacular Scientific Tradition”

Young, Abigail Ann. “The Commentaria in Iohannis Euangelium of Rupert of Deutz: A Methodological Analysis in the Field of Twelfth-Century Exegesis”

Zier, Mark Allen. “The Expositio super Danielem of Andrew of St Victor: A Critical Edition together with a Survey of the Medieval Latin Interpretation of Daniel”

Boyle, William John. “Weakness of Will and Self-Control According to St Thomas Aquinas”

Dickey, Bruce George. “Adelard of Bath: An Examination Based on Heretofore Unexamined Manuscripts”

Dumont, Stephen D. “Henry of Ghent as a Source for John Duns Scotus’s Proof for the Existence of God”

• Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame

Kowaleski, Maryanne. “Local Markets and Merchants in Late Fourteenth-Century Exeter”

• Joseph Fitzpatrick, SJ Distinguished Professor of History and Medieval Studies, Fordham University

Quick, Anne Wenley. “The Sources of the Quotations in Piers Plowman”

St John, Helen Louise. “A Critical Edition of the Vita Henrici Quinti of Tito Livio Frulovisi”

Schulze, Hertha. “A Study of the moralités in the La Vallière Manuscript, Bibliothèque nationale MS. fr. 24341”

Shinners, John Raymond, Jr. “Religion in Fourteenth-Century England: Clerical Standards and Popular Practice in the Diocese of Norwich”

• Bruno P. Schlesinger Chair in Humanistic Studies, Saint Mary's College

Sommers, Mary C[atherine]. “An Edition of Walter Burley’s Quaestiones super librum Posteriorum from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, MS. 668*/645 with a Doctrinal Introduction”

• Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas

Stoneman, William Procter. “A Critical Edition of Ælfric’s Translation of Alcuin’s Interrogationes Sigwulfi presbiteri and of the Related Texts De creatore et creatura and De sex etatibus huius seculi”

• Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University

Baldner, Steven Earl. “Four Hitherto Unedited quaestiones on Creation, Attributed to St Bonaventure”

• Professor of Philosophy, St. Francis Xavier University

Bennett, Judith Mackenzie. “Gender, Family, and Community: A Comparative Study of the English Peasantry, 1287–1349”

• John R. Hubbard Chair of History Emerita, University of Southern California

Biddick, Kathleen. “Animal Husbandry and Pastoral Land-Use on the Fen Edge, Peterborough, England: An Archaeological and Historical Reconstruction (2500 B.C.–A.D. 1350)”

• Professor of History, Temple University

Chase, Martin. “Einar Skúlason’s Geisli: A Critical Edition”

Dutton, Paul Edward. “Awareness of Historical Decline in the Carolingian Empire, 800–887”

• Jack and Nancy Farley University Professor in History, Simon Fraser University

Emelity, Martha Ellen. “A Study of the Three Helgi Poems in the Poetic Edda”

English, Edward D. “Five Magnate Families of Siena, 1240–1350”

Epstein, Marcy J. “‘Prions en chantant’: An Edition with Commentary of the Old French Devotional Songs in the Manuscripts Paris, Bibliothèque nationale fr. 24406 and Bibliothèque nationale n. a. fr. 1050”

Getz, Faye Marie. “An Edition of the Middle English Gilbertus Anglicus Found in Wellcome MS. 537”

Keefe, Susan Ann. “Baptismal Instruction in the Carolingian Period: The MS Evidence”

Leader, Damian Riehl. “The Study of Arts in Oxford and Cambridge at the End of the Middle Ages”

Mooney, Linne R. “Practical Didactic Works in Middle English: Edition and Analysis of the Class of Short Middle English Works Containing Useful Information”

• Professor of Medieval English Palaeography, University of York

Moritz, Theresa Anne. “Married Love and Incarnational Imagery: Bernard of Clairvaux’s Sermones super Cantica canticorum within Medieval Spirituality and as a Model for Love Allegory in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales”

Muir, Bernard James Edward. “An Edition of British Library Manuscripts Cotton Galba A. xiv and Cotton Nero A. ii (ff. 3r–13v)”

• Professor of English, University of Melbourne

Nodes, Daniel Joseph. “Avitus of Vienne’s Spiritual History: Its Theme and Doctrinal Implications”

• Professor of Classics, Baylor University

Silano, Giulio. “The Distinctiones Decretorum of Ricardus Anglicus: An Edition”

Taylor, Richard Charles. “The Liber de causis (Kalm f Mahd al-khair): A Study of Medieval Neoplatonism”

• Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University

Celano, Anthony J. “Aristotle’s Concept of Happiness in the Thirteenth Century”

• Professor of Philosophy, Stonehill College

Kordecki, Lesley Catherine. “Traditions and Development of the Medieval English Dragon”

• Professor of English, DePaul University

Olson, Barbara Lynette. “Early Monasteries in Cornwall”

Parsons, John Carmi. “Eleanor of Castile (1241–1290) and the English Queenship in the Thirteenth Century”

Phillips, Heather. “John Wyclif’s De Eucharistia in its Medieval Setting”

Bodden, Mary Catherine. “Detailed Description of Oxford Bodleian Manuscript Auctarum F.4.32, along with a Close Study of its Second Gathering, an 11th-Century Old English Homily on the Finding of the True Cross”

• Professor of English, Marquette University

Burson, Malcolm Clark. “The Early Fifteenth-Century Clergy in the Archdeaconry of Exeter: Social Origins and Roles”

Churchill, W[illiam] J. “The Annales Barenses and the Annales Lupi Protosaptharii: Critical Edition and Commentary”

De la Torre, Bartholomew R. “Thomas Buckingham’s Ostensio meriti liberae actionis, Conclusions 1 to 15, ‘De contingentia futurorum et arbitrii libertate’: An Edition and Study”

DeLeeuw, Patricia Allwin. “Pastoral Care in Eighth- and Ninth-Century Germany”

Harry, Margaret Rose. “Kristni saga, AM 371, 4to (Hauksbók) and AM 105, fol.: An Edition of the Texts, with an Introduction, Notes, and an English Translation”

Lutgens, Christine. “The Canonists of BL MS. Royal 9.E.VIII and Canon Law in England in the Fourteenth Century”

Macierowski, Edward Michael. “The Thomistic Critique of Avicennian Emanationism from the Viewpoint of the Divine Simplicity, with Special Reference to the Summa contra Gentiles”

Miller, James L. “Choreia: Visions of the Cosmic Dance in Western Literature from Plato to Jean de Meun”

Pfeffer, Wendy Eleanor. “Philomela’s Progeny: The Nightingale in Medieval French Literature”

• Professor of French, University of Louisville

Sargent, Michael Grant. “James Grenehalgh as Textual Critic”

• Professor of English, City University of New York

Spear, Linda Margaret. “The Treatment of Sexual Sin in the Irish Latin Penitential Literature”

Westra, Haijo Jan. “The Commentary on Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis Attributed to Bernardus Silvestris: A Critical Edition”

Bartlett, Kenneth R. “The English Exile Community in Italy under Queen Mary I (1553–1558)”

Dooley, Ann. “The Beginnings of Religious Bardic Poetry in Ireland in the Thirteenth Century”

• Professor Emerita, Centre for Medieval Studies / University of St. Michael's College, U of T

Signer, Michael Alan. “Andrew of St Victor’s Expositio in Ezechielem: A Critical Edition”

Sitarz Fitzpatrick, Beata Urszula Barbara.”A Study of Cerveri de Girona and his Use of Language, Including an Edition of Sixteen of his Poems”

Brown, Oscar James. “Natural Rectitude and Divine Law in Aquinas: An Approach to an Integral Interpretation of the Thomistic Doctrine of Law”

Crawford, Karis Ann. “The Middle English Pety Job: A Critical Edition with a Study of its Place in Late Medieval Religious Literature”

Goering, Joseph Ward. “The Popularization of Scholastic Ideas in Thirteenth-Century England and an Anonymous Speculum iuniorum”

Henderson, Jane Frances Anne. “A Critical Edition of Evrat’s Genesis: Creation to the Flood”

Mantello, Frank Anthony Carl. “A Critical Edition of the Gesta temporum Edwardi regis Anglorum (Chapter VI of the Annales sex regum Angliae) of Nicholas Trevet, OP”

McCreesh, Elizabeth Kathleen Bernadine. “Contrasting Christian and Pagan Motifs in Certain Old Norse Family Sagas”

Oetgen, Jerome. “Ælfric’s Use of Gregory the Great’s Homiliae in Evangelia in the Catholic Homilies, First and Second Series”

Woods, Marjorie Curry. “The ‘In principio huius libri’ Type A Commentary on Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s Poetria nova: Text and Analysis”

Carley, James P. “An Annotated Edition of John of Glastonbury’s Cronica sive Antiquitates Glastoniensis ecclesie to the Year 1126”

Erb, Peter C. “The Role of Late Medieval Spirituality in the Work of Gottfried Arnold (1666–1714)”

McKinnon, Sarah Morgan. “Traditional Rural Architecture in Northwest France and Quebec: 1600–1800”

Murray, Alexander C. “Kinship Structure in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”

Pelteret, David Anthony Edgell. “Late Anglo-Saxon Slavery: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Various Forms of Evidence”

Rodríguez, Marcia. “Sir Perceval of Gales: A Critical Edition”

Tarrant, Jacqueline [Brown]. “A Study and Critical Edition of the Extravagantes Johannis XXII”

Wieland, Gernot Rudolf. “The Latin Glosses on Arator and Prudentius in University Library, Cambridge, MS. Gg.5.35”

Conway, Charles Abbott, Jr. “The Vita Christi of Ludolph of Saxony and Late Medieval Devotion Centred on the Incarnation: A Descriptive Analysis”

Evans, Claude. “Les noms bretons dans les chartes de l’abbaye de Bégard, 1156–1458”

Green, Richard F. “Literature and the English Court in the Late Middle Ages”

Merkens, Barbara Jo. “Natural Description in Middle Scots Poetry: A Study in Style”

Parrott, Martha Mary. “The Ylias of Simon Aurea Capra: A Critical Edition”

Poole, Russell Gilbert. “Skaldic Poetry in the Sagas: The Origins, Authorship, Genre, and Style of Some Saga lausavísur”

Baldwin, Mary. “Ancrene wisse and its Background in the Christian Tradition of Religious Instruction and Spirituality”

Beer, Frances Fitzgerald. “Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love” [an edition]

Burrell, Margaret Ann. “A Critical Edition of the Provençal Romance Blandin de Cornouailles”

Cartwright, John. “Sir Gilbert Hay’s Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour: A Critical Edition of Lines 1-4263”

Chisman, Anna Mary McGregor. “Enjambement in Las cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X, el Sabio”

Hutchison, Ann M. “An Edition of Book VI of John Trevisa’s English Translation of De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomaeus Anglicus”

Kitchel, Mary Jean. “Walter Burley’s Doctrine of the Human Intellect: A Study with an Edition of Selected Texts”

Marshall, Linda Edith. “The Garments of Philosophy: A Study of Philosophical Myth in the Twelfth Century”

Pryor, John H. “The Commenda in Mediterranean Maritime Commerce During the Thirteenth Century: A Study Based on Marseilles”

Roe, Caroline Medora. “Vernacular Didactic Literature in England in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries”

Schauman, Bella T. “The Emergence and Progress of Irish Script to the Year 700”

Barratt, Alexandra A.T. “Two Middle English Translations of Aelred of Rievaulx’s De institutione inclusarum”

DiLorenzo, Raymond Douglas. “The Therapy of Epideictic Discourse in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess: Study of a Rhetorical Event”

Hammer, Carl I., Jr. “Some Social and Institutional Aspects of Town-Gown Relations in Late Medieval and Tudor Oxford”

Harkins, Conrad Leonard, OFM. “John Pecham and the Mendicant Controversy of the Thirteenth Century”

Judy, Albert Glenn, OP. “Robert Kilwardby, OP: De ortu scientiarum: A Critical Edition”

Stouck, Mary Anne. “Studies in English Verse Hagiography: 1300–1500”

Williman, Daniel. “The Books of the Avignonese Popes and Clergy: A Repertory and Edition of the Book-Notices in the Vatican Archives 1287–1420”

Berger, Alan John. † “Narratives of Friendship and Reconciliation in Old Icelandic Literature”

DeWindt, Anne Reiber. “Society and Change in a Fourteenth-Century English Village: King’s Ripton 1275–1400”

Douglas, Audrey W. “Elemosina and English Ecclesiastical Land-Tenure 1135–1200”

Dutka, Joanna. “The Use of Music in the English Mystery Plays”

Elder, Ellen Rozanne. “The Image of Invisible God: The Evolving Christology of William of Saint Thierry”

Eleen, Luba. “The Illumination of the Pauline Epistles in French and English Bibles of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries”

Gervers, Michael. “The Cartulary of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England (British Museum, Cotton MS. Nero E VI): A Critical Edition of the secunda camera Containing Deeds Pertaining to the Order’s Holdings in County Essex”

• Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies, U of T / Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, UTSC

Grant, Judith. “La passiun de Seint Edmund”

Martinez, H. Salvador. “El Poema de Almería y su significado en la epica romantica”

Ward, John Oastler. “Artificiosa eloquentia in the Middle Ages: The Study of Cicero’s De inventione, the Ad Herennium, and Quintilian’s De institutione oratoria from the Early Middle Ages to the Thirteenth Century, with Special Reference to the Schools of Northern France”

Cummings, Michael. “Social History in Wulfstan’s Authentic Homilies, Based on Terminology” Gracia, Jorge Jesus Emiliano. “Francesc Eiximenis’s Terç del Crestià: Edition and Study of Sources (Chapters 353–430)”

Hogan, Mary Patricia. “Wistow: A Social and Economic Reconstitution in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries”

Lapidge, Michael. “Ideas of Natural Order in Early Medieval Latin Poetry”

Letson, Douglas Richard. “The Vernacular Homily and Old English Christian Poetry: A Study of Similarities in Form and Image”

Margeson, Robert Ward. “A Key to Medieval Fiction: Romance and Didacticism in Le morte Arthur and Le bel inconnu”

McCready, William David. “The Church-State Controversy in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Study in Late Medieval Publicistic Literature”

Styran, Roberta McAfee. “The Parliament of 1406: A Quest for Good Governance”

Whitney, Russell Lee. “The Old English Daniel: Its Structure and its Relation to the Latin Exegesis on the Book of Daniel”

Grendler, Marcella McCann. “The Trattato politico-morale of Giovanni Cavalcanti (1381–c.1450): A Critical Edition and Interpretation”

Neuss, Paula.† “The Creacion of the World” [an edition]

Chamberlin, John S. “Increase and Multiply: The Medieval Arts of Discourse and the Development of Scriptural Figures in Donne’s Sermons”

Condren, Edward Ignatius. “The Metaphor of Love: A Critical Study of Chaucer’s Early Poetry”

McCauliff, Catherine M. “The Marriage Portion in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century English Land Law”

Whitelaw, John. “The Idea of Poverty as Virtue, and its Role in the Historical Deveopment of the Church According to Some Writings of Petrus Ioannis Olivi (1248–1298)”

DeWindt, Edwin Brezette. “Land and People in Holywell-cum-Needingworth: Structures of Tenure and Patterns of Social Organization in an East Midlands Village, 1252–1457”

Long, R. James. “The Problem of the Soul in Richard Fishacre’s Commentary on the Sentences”

• Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Fairfield University

Niles, Philip Harcourt. “Parliament and Society in 1376: The Role of the Commons and the Background of the Membership”

Woznicki, Andrew N. “The Metaphysical Foundation of the Order of Being in St Thomas Aquinas”

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Medieval dissertation preparation : a handlist

·        International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) http://www.brepolis.net/ (Access via MetaLib )

excellent bibliographical tool, but only covers publications since 1967

·        ITER bibliography http://www.itergateway.org/ (Access via MetaLib )

·        Bibliography of British and Irish History http://apps.brepolis.net/bbih/search.cfm (Access via MetaLib )

· The National Archives (TNA formerly PRO) on-line catalogue and other record-related links:   http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

· Medieval (500-1582) calendar calculator, an invaluable tool for calculating the meanings of dates (or use C.Cheney , Handbook of Dates ): http://www.wallandbinkley.com/mcc/mcc_main.html

· Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/ (Access via MetaLib ) biographical entries with bibliographical references of many British historical figures (well over 6000 persons listed as active in the period 400 to 1530)

· Manual of Writings in Middle English , ed. J.B. Severs (11 volumes) catalogues Middle English texts by genre and provides summaries of content and guides to manuscripts etc.

examples of the sort of items that can be found on the web:

· Bede’s Life of St Cuthbert : http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/bede-cuthbert.html

· Bracton’s De Legibus : http://hlsl5.law.harvard.edu/bracton/

· various Early English Text Society publications available at Compendium of Middle English (via MetaLib ) Middle English Compendium (includes Middle English Dictionary, a bibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse)

· TEAMS http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm scholarly editions and translations of a large number of Middle English texts

Do remember Google Books: http :/ /books.google.com/ which allows access to complete texts of much out of copyright material in a searchable form. It also permits lots of searches as for named individuals that take you to a whole range of references even if you are not allowed access to the actual text.

Another resource that hosts a variety of out of copyright texts (and some that are not out of copyright but have been reproduced legally such as Records of Early English Drama) is Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/texts

Other MetaLib databases (*Also available as hard copy):

Acta Sanctorum; Library of Latin Texts*; Patrilogia Latina*, Monumenta Germaniae Historica *

There are some useful collections of sources on specific themes with introduction, e.g.:

· J. Nelson, ed., The Annals of St- Bertin

· E. van Houts , ed., The Normans in Europe

· R. Horrox , ed., The Black Death [includes medical treatises]

· P.J.P. Goldberg, ed., Women in England c 1275-1525 [includes church court material]

· C.J. Given-Wilson, ed., Chronicles of the Revolution 1397-1400

· J. Ward, ed., Women of the Nobility and Gentry

· C. Taylor, ed. Joan of Arc: La Pucelle

Most of the above are currently available at: http://www.medievalsources.co.uk , but you will need to use a networked PC

· British History Online at: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

   Includes some Victoria County Histories (see below); London Letter Books and Plea and Memoranda Rolls (see below); Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae ; some legal records – this is an excellent and ever growing site

· Virtual Norfolk at: http://virtualnorfolk.uea.ac.uk/

       Includes Norwich heresy trials ( Lollards ), numbers of wills, some material about festivities etc.

· There is much valuable legal source material published in the volumes of the Selden Society . This is invariably in the form of text and facing page translation. Mostly royal courts, but also includes church (including defamation), manorial, and borough courts. Note also Year Books (notes on trials).

· For local history topics the various volumes of the Victoria History of the Counties of England are often very useful, not least as guides to primary sources [QUARTO Q 42 VIC] – most of these are posted on the British History Online website

·   If you are following up particular members of the English aristocracy, then consult G.E.Cokayne , The Complete Peerage (some of these volumes on Internet Archive)

some (primarily later) medieval English sources:

·   chronicles: Rolls Series [Q 42.02] [Latin, often with marginal annotations in English]

·   A. Gransden , Historical Writings in England , 2 vols. [introduction to chronicles, chroniclers etc.]

· R.B. Dobson, ed., The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 [good collection of sources, extracts etc.]

· C. Given-Wilson, Chronicles: The Writing of Medieval England [excellent introduction to the source]

·   central government records:

·   Calendars of Close Rolls, Patent Rolls, Charter Rolls, Inquisitions Post Mortem [Q 42 BRI]

       There is a searchable electronic version of the Calendars of Patent Rolls at: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/patentrolls/

         The Calendars of Fine rolls have been put up in electronic form on the British History Online website

·   Statutes of the Realm [QUARTO Q 42 BRI]

·   Rolls of Parliament available as an electronic searchable database – go to MetaLib

Ancient Petitions – detailed summaries now available on The National Archives (TNA, series code SC 8). (You can also access the original documents on-line and even print out copies without additional charge.):

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/browse-refine.asp?CatID=25&searchType=browserefine&pagenumber=1&query=*&queryType=1

·   peace session records:

     There is a lot of published material (see Texts and Calendars ) including Lincoln Record Society 30, 49, 56, 65

·   poll tax returns:

     British Academy, Records of Social and Economic History, new ser., 27, 29, 37 – a very substantial resource

The Yorkshire (W.R. and Howdenshire ) 1379 returns are published electronically (and hence searchable) by GENUKI at: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/SubsidyRolls/YKS/SubsidyRolls1379Index.html

·   Church court materials:

N.Adams and C.Donahue ,eds . Select cases from the ecclesiastical courts of the province of Canterbury, c. 1200-1301 , Selden Society, 96

R.H. Helmholz , Select cases on Defamation to 1600 , Selden Society, 101

S.McSheffrey , Love and Marriage in Late Medieval London

Shannon McSheffrey has began to build a website of transcriptions and translations of the London court material from the later fifteenth century: http://digitalhistory.concordia.ca/consistory/

·   borough records:

There are good series for London (e.g. Letter Books, Plea and Memoranda Rolls and London Record Society), Bristol (Little Red Book, various volumes in Bristol Record Society), Oxford (Oxford Historical Society), Coventry ( leet book: Early English Text Society, 134-5), also for Norwich, York, Beverley, King's Lynn etc. (Because these are often old editions, much is available on Internet Archive)

There is an excellent series of extracts from the Nottingham borough courts with Latin transcriptions and facing pages translations edited by W.H. Stevenson as Records of the Borough of Nottingham . The Minster Library holds these, but most are available on Internet Archive

First volume of an edition of Colchester court rolls (1310-52) is available on Internet Archive

·   manor court records:

Relatively few manor court records have been translated, but these are a couple of examples

       Wakefield (Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record ser. and volumes at Q 42.74 WAK)

       Walsham le Willows [C14] (Suffolk Records Society)

·   wills: Early English Text Society 78 [English]

There are numerous editions of wills, but few are in English (and translations often turn out to be abridged)

       Surtees Society – various volumes of Testamenta Eboracensis [mostly Latin] (also on Internet Archive)

        London Hustings Court wills (ed. R.R. Sharpe) are available as a calendar (English précis) (also on Internet Archive)

·   guilds: Early English Text Society, 40 [this is devotional guild material – most craft guild material that survives is recorded in borough records (see above)

Finally remember that you don’t have a lot of time to research a dissertation. It is often best to be led by the sources. Find some accessible source material that you would find interesting to work with and then frame the questions, not the other way around. A clickable electronic version of this handlist is at: http://www.york.ac.uk/teaching/history/pjpg/Medievaldiss.htm                                                                     

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Each year, hopeful young scholars publish their theses on medieval history as well as archaeology, literature, art. the following list is not comprehensive. but we register what we find with links to the depositories.

The Manuscript Circulation and Use of Bede’s Martyrology and Religious Practice in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe, to c. 1250 By Falardeau, Kate University of Cambridge 2024

A Language of Snakes: Supernatural Objects in Viking Age Scandinavia By Andrea C. Snow College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Art, Art History Program

From the late-eighth through the early-twelfth centuries, the Germanic people of medieval Scandinavia (colloquially known as the Vikings) crafted enigmatic objects that were bound to a cultural acceptance of the supernatural. The material world was fundamentally linked to such a perspective: believing that things like carved pieces of bone and wood, metal apparatuses, and stone sculptures could hold or manipulate the unseen forces of the cosmos, they perceived the material world as alive, active, and powerful. Thus, crafted matter was not limited to aesthetically pleasing décor or functional tools—it was an agent through which the commingling of the sacred and the secular was made tangible. Scholars of medieval religion and history have argued that this worldview—dubbed a “magical way of thinking”—was intrinsic to the mindsets of the Scandinavian Middle Ages both before and after the region’s conversion to Christianity. Yet, despite the attention that medieval art historians have paid to the relationships between objects and beliefs in a supernatural (or divine) Other in contemporaneous, Abrahamic religious contexts, the art and material culture of the group at hand have been underserved. Substantial interpretive work needs to be done to untangle how these objects were connected to the uncanny. Asking not only how objects were embedded in supernatural power, but also through which methods were they endowed with such power and in what contexts it manifested, this project uses archaeological and textual evidence to formulate a new, art-historical framework for understanding the agency that this society assigned to the material world. Its aims are twofold: one, to suggest new routes for interpreting and understanding its relationship with crafted objects, and two, to push for further expansions in how these people are considered in scholarship and, eventually, in popular culture.

Scholars of kingship and queenship have long acknowledged that producing an heir was an expected duty for medieval queens and kings. Indeed, motherhood has been a focal point in medieval queenship scholarship since the field’s beginning in the 1980s. Scholars have explored the gendered ideal of queenship and shown that maternity was a key function of the king’s wife that enabled medieval queens to exert political influence. Recently, scholars have considered how queens without children were still able to successfully execute their role, by substituting social motherhood and other facets of queenship, like intercession and religious patronage, in place of biological motherhood. Kings needed heirs, but gendered analysis of kingship has been slower to develop than work on other medieval men, or queens, and while fatherhood has received some attention in relation to medieval masculinity, there is less study of the significance of successful fertility for the gendered role of medieval kings.

This thesis fills a space that exists between the work on medieval kingship, queenship and the nuanced approaches that are being developed in the new history of infertility. The conventional understanding of ‘infertility’ as the inability to conceive is limiting, and excludes incidences of secondary infertility, sub-fertility and other uncertainties of reproduction. This thesis investigates the significance and pressure for fertility on kings and queens, by focusing on how royal couples in thirteenth and fourteenth-century England and Scotland, many of whom were not always childless or conventionally infertile, still experienced reproductive difficulties and managed their fertility. The analysis is divided into four chapters, structured around questions about when and why royal childlessness was problematized, and how fertility problems and reproduction were managed by royal couples. The first chapter examines contemporary impressions of the royal couples’ fertility and expressions of concern about childlessness. It investigates how royal fertility was written about by chroniclers and uncovers attention to couples’ fertility which has been missed by scholarship because many of the couples ultimately did have children. It considers chroniclers’ association of reproduction with queens and argues that perceptions of the kings contributed to what chronicles state about royal fertility.

The second chapter identifies a pattern of behaviour in the devotional practices of three childless kings, and exposes a connection between the king’s behaviours, age and concerns about childlessness. This chapter suggests that royal couples experienced scrutiny of their fertility when the king reached the perfect age associated with masculine maturity in the male life course. The third chapter traces evidence of royal medical care and asks how we might identify reproductive medicine in payments to physicians and connections to medical practitioners and texts. The chapter illustrates key patterns in royal healthcare to illuminate how royal couples medically managed fertility. It argues that royal healthcare was gendered, and reproductive medicine was focused on the queen, but queens had an influential role in the transmission and control of the medical care accessed by the royal couple. The fourth chapter examines the spiritual practices used by royal couples to manage reproduction and remedy fertility problems. It argues that the spiritual practices for reproduction were carefully chosen communications to control perceptions of a couple’s fertility, while the spiritual management of fertility was used by couples to communicate broader politically significant messages too.

Ultimately, this thesis examines the pressure for fertility experienced by royal couples, and how they navigated this using medical and spiritual support. It moves on from questioning how queens and kings navigated their gendered role in the absence of reproduction and uncovers the significance of fertility for contemporary perceptions of kingship and queenship. It shows how the uncertainties of reproduction affected and were managed by kings and queens, but in different and gendered ways. Ultimately, the thesis demonstrates that a more open analysis of infertility is necessary for understanding with greater precision the experience of childlessness, and the importance of fertility for both gendered roles of kingship and queenship.

This thesis traces how the enchanted sleep motif common to both ATU 410 (Sleeping Beauty) and ATU 709 (Snow White) exists in the Bible and hagiography, before charting its subsequent appearance in medieval and early modern literature. Categorising the enchanted sleep and its various facets as the motif of the ‘sleeping corpse’, this thesis considers how two fairy tales, which appear to model Victorian patriarchal ideals of female passivity and male agency, have complex earlier iterations that undermine and subvert many of their contemporary core problematic tenets. Chapter One explores how the sleeping corpse motif can be considered analogous to the presentation of deceased saints in hagiography, examining how a sleeping corpse can also be an active, powerful, and often deadly member of a community. Chapter Two explores the motif in medieval romance, including in the first recorded written version of Sleeping Beauty and its subsequent European versions, where the motif is often used as part of rape narratives. Chapter Three examines how Elizabethan pastoral romance presents the male sleeping corpse as a product of the failure to self-govern passion, whilst Chapter Four explores how Shakespeare uses the motif to unpack ideas of familial loss and reunion, though not restoration. Finally, Chapter Five demonstrates how Jacobean revenge tragedy rejects past iterations of the motif in favour of using the sleeping corpse to portray murder and necrophilia on stage. Drawing together a vast and original corpus of genres and time periods, this thesis offers new ways of understanding two traditionally maligned fairy tales, as well as demonstrating how the motif speaks to our desire to pause time, delay the inevitability of death, and obtain a type of immortality.

This thesis utilises the data sets provided through the recording of historic graffiti within secular and religious buildings to analyse and draw a theoretical understanding of behaviour within Medieval Christian religious practice during a period of intense pilgrimage activity. The work focuses on the South of England and questions the nature of personal religious engagement within the church and cathedral specifically looking at the methods used by lay worshippers to gain independent access to the divine. To facilitate this study large volume of historic graffiti data has been recorded in Hampshire, Wiltshire, and West Sussex. This data has been analysed using geostatistical models to assess distribution and relative nearness of the marks to both known points within the built environment and to neighbouring marks. This data has then been compared to existing literary and historical texts to understand how the marks have interacted with personal prayer practice and the built landscape. The outcome of this study has been the generation of a theoretical framework that describes one form of interaction using graffiti as ritual doing within the generation of personal rituals of encounter that facilitate the exploration of a complex nested ontology within the built landscape. This nested ontology provides access to the divine in a ritually safe manner and permits lay worshippers to navigate the spiritual dangers an encounter with the divine without the guidance of a ritual authority.

Margaret of Burgundy (1374-1441) is known mainly for two reasons. Firstly, her marriage in 1385 to William of Bavaria, eldest son of the Count of Hainault, Holland and Zeeland, laid the foundation for the transfer of power in these principalities to the Burgundian dynasty some 50 years later. Secondly, she supported her only child Jacqueline of Bavaria, who fought many battles in order to prevent this. The combination of these two roles points to a conflict of interest. By supporting her daughter as the rightful Bavarian heir, Margaret inevitably came into conflict with members of her own dynasty of origin, the Valois Burgundians. The overarching question in the research presented in this thesis is what tilted the scales for Margaret as a political player in different phases of her life: was it her loyalty to the Burgundian or to the Bavarian dynasty, her connection with the Hook party in Holland, or was she driven mainly by self-interest, as is sometimes suggested? Related to this is the question whether her means were substantial enough to allow her to play her own game. In this biographical study, a chronological and a thematic approach have been combined. The loyalty question serves as guideline for the first part, in which the story of Margaret’s life is told chronologically within the broader context of political developments. The thematic second part is dedicated to her financial position as a widow, her court, and her religious and literary patronage.

In 1246, when Pope Innocent IV saw embroidered copes and mitres which were made in England, he exclaimed; “England is for us surely a garden of delights, truly an inexhaustible well; and from there where so many things abound…” Embroidery made between 1200-1350 in England, known as opus anglicanum, was internationally recognized, traded, gifted, collected, and coveted. The technical skill combined with a distinct aesthetic resulted in an iconic textile brand. Though first described as a brand in the context of contemporary imitated textiles, I extend this understanding by close visual analyses and archival readings. “Opus anglicanum: The Visual Language, Liturgical Rituals, and Gifting of a Medieval English Brand” argues for a quadripartite examination of the opus anglicanum brand, grounded in luxury brand theory. I articulate the technical and aesthetic hallmarks of the brand by examining archival records of embroiderers and the specific aspects of their work which differentiated opus anglicanum from other contemporary textile decorations. I then evaluate the opus anglicanum brand aesthetic by a close visual reading of its background designs and popular motifs, through which emerges the enduring relationship between manuscript illumination and embroidery design. As the majority of extant opus anglicanum textiles are ecclesiastic vestments, I then assess these textiles in the context of contemporary liturgical writings and rituals. As archival evidence indicates, opus anglicanum textiles were often presented as gifts. Therefore, I conclude by studying the effect of medieval English embroidery in the context of gift-giving rituals. This dissertation, while grounded in both medieval and modern scholarship, reevaluates these textiles and argues that the enduring legacy of opus anglicanum is due to its identity as a medieval brand.

Scholarship regarding the early medieval Welsh Marches is frequently disparate and disjointed. Studies have concentrated on the analysis of monuments, in part because of the paucity of early medieval archaeology upon which to create a tableau conducive to macro landscape-based research. Where syncretic works in the Welsh Marches have attempted to adopt an interdisciplinary approach, they are often dated, not embracing, or utilising new techniques or methods. This is exacerbated by approaches in archaeological remotes sensing that have focused on methods or only producing dots and lines on a map, rather than its application and integration into theoretical frameworks widening further the divide between theory and practice. Combined, these approaches also fail to integrate fully within discourses emerging in border studies, a critical field of study when analysing border regions. To tackle these challenges, this thesis examines the borderland landscape of the North and Central Marches using traditional geographical and archaeological techniques, combined with GIS and remote sensed methodologies such as lidar to offer new insight into processes of power and how that is reflected in the landscape. This research targets not only landscape morphology but embraces border theory on the expression and apparatus of power emphasising the ‘borderland’ as an active agent in territoriality and social processes. This study has analysed remote sensed data and data sets that have previously been underutilised and combined theoretical concepts into a holistic body of work. New or misinterpreted archaeological sites have been identified, adding to the archaeological knowledge of the region and facilitated an enhanced picture of the early medieval landscape. In addition, the interrelationship of boundaries and sites hitherto unrecognised in the Welsh Marches have collectively opened new avenues and concepts to underpin and augment further research on dyke systems and border formation processes.

In this dissertation the problems surrounding water management, a space where different economic and other socio-political interests met and sometimes clashed are addressed. Modern politics focuses on who has legitimate rights to claims in such disputes, but for historians, it is certainly more relevant to understand how such conflicts were approached and resolved in the past by posing questions about how pre-modern societies dealt with these same problems. These questions include what kind of disputes unfolded with regard to the use of water and the degree to which water conceived as private or as ‘common’? How were different interests aligned with each other? In this dissertation these questions are raised in the context of Central Europe, and more particularly, in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Middle Ages (from the ca. tenth century to the mid-sixteenth century), i.e. the period of the re- appearance of literacy in the area after the Roman period. Throughout the different chapters of the dissertation it is argued that use of water by the societies of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Middle Ages gave rise to fairly complex sets of customs and norms that, until the Modern times, were the most important principles in settling water use related disputes.

Against the background of production traditions, there is an opportunity to trace the external cultural interactions, manifested in various forms. An example of a model of technological development in early medieval Bulgaria is the production centers for metal art, which functioned in the first half of the 10th century in the vicinity of Preslav. Each region of metalworking has a complex structure in which the individual production areas are often far apart. They function according to the developed system of exchange with the various metallurgical fields, where the connection between them is determined not so much by economic compliance as by the degree of culture and traditions. The regularly located complexes of workshops show the presence of proximity in the location of the individual production areas, which is influenced by the cultural development of the early medieval Bulgarian community and the synchronous time of functioning. Metalworking has considerable autonomy and this is especially evident in the various stages of the technological process. Its distinctiveness is expressed in the specialization of the blacksmith’s trade, the special social and public status of the masters, the nature of the productive and trade relations, etc. The production of artistic metal is characterized by its own traditions and its own path of development, reflected in the history of alloys, production technology, the typology of metal inventory and the system of concepts. Local traditions are refracted through the prism of general practice in the development of production. Often these are established principles in technology and the individual stages in it, which retain their stability over time and reach both the Middle Ages and the New Age, with minor changes as a result of technical progress.

The subject of research is the rich collection of belt sets, received from the archaeological excavations of the three centres for the production of metal art from the early Bulgarian Middle Ages near Preslav – near Novosel , Zlatar and Nadarevo. The finds of belt sets in the three centres are the most numerous and mass-produced products, the number of which so far exceeds 3000. Along with them, the finds from the production centres received in the museum collections before the excavations were examined. This applies primarily to the third production centre near Nadarevo, Targovishte region. The study aims to investigate the production of artistic metal in early medieval Bulgaria on the basis of the numerous production of belt sets, collected as a result of 20 years of research of the first known specialized centres for metal plastics. As a result of archaeological excavations from 2004 to 2009, the first centre was studied – the one near Novosel, Shumen region. From 2007 to the present, the second production centre near Zlatar, Preslav region, is being studied with a short break. The centre near Nadarevo, Targovishte region was partially explored in the 1990s within one season. The number of finds in the National Museum in Sofia and the museum collections from all over Northeastern Bulgaria prove the existence of large-scale and organized production, in parallel with that of the other two complexes.

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Yana Bespalchikova

Thesis Topic: The Gothic oral tradition in the Getica of Jordanes

Yana Bespalchikova is an MPhil/PhD student and a Graduate Teaching Fellow in the School of Humanities and Heritage. She obtained her BA in History in the St. Petersburg State University (Russia) with distinction in 2017. In 2019 she graduated with distinction from the Department of Philology of the same university and defended her MA thesis on Classical Studies. From 2019 to 2022 she did her research work on a programme of Cultural Anthropology at the European University at St. Petersburg. Her research interests include the Early Medieval narratives, orality in the written texts, and structural analysis in comparative studies.

She is currently working on her thesis supervised by Dr Graham Barrett, Professor Jamie Wood, and Dr Robert Portass. Her thesis is an attempt to establish a methodology that can provide scholars with approaches to studying the reflection of living oral culture on the written text in circumstances when there are no recordings of its tradition to compare with. The material for analysis in this thesis is the Gothic history (Getica) of Jordanes, the Latin historical narrative of the sixth century.

Francesca Cannon

Thesis Topic: ‘Replacement wives and replacement mothers?’: A study of three royal stepmothers in Northern Europe, 1274-1327

Francesca studied for her undergraduate degree in English and History at the University of Keele and studied for her masters in Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln. Her interests during this time focused on perceptions of medieval gender, particularly, though not exclusively women, and reputation.

Her thesis considers three relatively unstudied medieval queens: Marie of Brabant, Queen of France, Margaret of France, Queen of England, and Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots, whose queenships occurred between the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Her study of these three women looks at their role as second wives to their husbands, and particularly at their roles as stepmothers and their relationships to their husbands' legitimate children from previous marriages.

Lynsey Coombs

Thesis Topic: The impact of medievalism on the curation of castles in the 21st century

Lynsey Coombs is a part-time PhD student in the School of History and Heritage. She obtained her BA in History at Newcastle University in 2008 and her MA is Museum Studies at the University of Leicester in 2016. Lynsey has over 12 years’ experience as a heritage professional and has worked for a number of organisations including Chatsworth House, English Heritage and University of Cambridge Museums. She is currently a Collections and House Manager at the National Trust based in Norfolk.

Lynsey’s PhD thesis explores the impacts of medievalism on the presentation and reception of castles as heritage sites in England. Her research examines whether castles tell the stories of the Middle Ages through the lens of medievalism, and if they do, what impact this has on visitors’ understanding about the building’s history.

Sarah Coyne

Thesis Topic: A song of love and hope: Gregory the Great’s complete exegesis on the Song of Songs and its political, moral and social influence throughout his life

Sarah studied for her undergraduate degree in Religious Studies at Bishop Otter College, Chichester and studied for her masters in Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln. Her interests during this time focused on Christianity and its changes throughout the epochs culminating in different rules and laws within each age. Sarah is currently studying full time for her MPhil/PhD and is supervised by Professor Jamie Wood and Dr Graham Barrett.

Her thesis considers how the Song of Songs was used by Gregory the Great and how it featured consistently throughout his written works including letters. Gregory the Great’s Exposition on the Song originated from the conferences he gave to a small group of monks and clerics during his papacy in the mid 590’s. Although it was intended to provide Gregory’s audience with resources to address the temptation of the flesh and the battle between body and spirit, it also was used to instruct elite members of the Church on how to conduct their business within monasteries, and dioceses across Italy and Europe.

Katherine Delaney

Thesis Topic: The earls and countesses of Surrey: the Warenne Family, 1248-1361

Katherine Delaney studied for her Master’s degree in Medieval History at King' College, London, achieving a merit. Having taken her PGCE at Homerton College, Cambridge, she went on to teach primary aged children, becoming Acting Head of the Junior School at Northwood College for Girls. She has always had a passion for medieval history and is now studying with Professor Louise Wilkinson, researching the last two earls of Surrey for her MPhil/PhD.

Her thesis aims to look at the earls and countesses of Surrey, the Warenne family, from 1248 to 1361. Her research addresses these questions: what political power did the earls and countesses of Surrey enjoy at local and national levels and how did this alter over time; and how successfully did the earls and countesses of Surrey administer their estates and adapt to economic and social change.

Zeynep Ece Bakala

Thesis Topic: Unearthing female voices from the margins: intercultural encounters of female pilgrims across medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean

Zeynep Ece Bakala is a PhD/MPhil student in Medieval Studies and Graduate Teaching Fellow in the School of History and Heritage. She completed her BA in Translation and Interpreting Studies at Yeditepe University in Türkiye in 2020, and obtained her MA in English Literary Studies at University of Exeter in 2022. Her research interests are medieval women, travel, pilgrimage, and cultural encounters. 

She is currently working on her thesis under the supervision of Dr Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo, Professor Amy Livingstone and Professor Louise Wilkinson. In her thesis, she examines medieval women's cultural, social, and political encounters during pilgrimages in Iberia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, focusing primarily on the literary sources to explore the roles pilgrimage and pilgrimage sites played in forming and shaping medieval women's social and cultural perceptions and attitudes.

Bethany Elliott

Thesis Topic: Lincolnshire's historical manors (PhD by Practice)

Bethany is a PhD student and an Associate Lecturer in the School of History and Heritage. She joined the University of Lincoln in 2019 to conduct research into Lincolnshire’s historical manors, as part of a PhD by Practice. In 2012, she completed a BA (Hons) in Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester, before completing an MSc in Forensic Investigation at Cranfield University in 2014. The use of archives for research during these studies led to her interest in the practice and she has since undertaken archival training at The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, specialising in Medieval Latin and palaeography, before completing an MA in Archive Administration at Aberystwyth University, to become a qualified archivist in 2017.

She began working on the Manorial Documents Register Project (MDR) with the National Archives in 2018. The project aims to locate, revise and digitise a list of all the manorial documents for England and Wales. Having completed the project for Cheshire, she is now completing the same, for Lincolnshire as part of a PhD by Practice. Her research involves not only completing the project, but also reflecting on archival practice within a project of this scale; including the challenges of locating the records, using multiple archive catalogues and making the MDR user-friendly. In addition to this, as the MDR project is now nearing its thirtieth year and has been completed in all but three English counties, Bethany’s research analyses how the project could have been affected by advances in technology and user search methods during this timescale, as well as how the register will improve the understanding of manorial records in Lincolnshire.

Update: Bethany completed her PhD in 2022. Many congratulations!

Heather Glover

Thesis Topic: Affective engagement with medieval contemplative writing, 1840-1912

Heather Glover is a PhD candidate in Medieval Studies and Graduate Teaching Fellow in the School of Humanities and Heritage at the University of Lincoln. Her research focuses on medieval contemplative writing and its post-medieval reception, particularly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on recent theories of affect and contemplative scholarship, she works on the role of faith, emotion, and time in literary and artistic responses to medieval literature.

Heather is interested in book history, working on a range of material contexts from medieval manuscripts to arts and crafts printing presses. Her research incorporates contemplative and mystic texts written in a range of medieval languages and has a strong emphasis on translation studies. Before coming to Lincoln, Heather completed her undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature at Worcester College, University of Oxford, and her MPhil in English Studies at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Her MPhil research was on “Medieval Women’s Contemplative Writing and Victorian Poetry, 1860-1910” and was fully funded by the Hugh and Velma Richmond Studentship in Medieval Literature at her Cambridge college.

Tina Lesley Jessica Holt

Thesis Topic: Thomas Bek: Familial networks, ecclesiastical responsibility and politics

Jessica studied her MA in Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln and is now a full-time MPhil/PhD student in History with Prof. Louise Wilkinson and Dr Michele Vescovi.

Her thesis examines how different ecclesiastical networks impacted upon the administration of the diocese of Lincoln during the tenure of Bishop Thomas Bek (who served as the Bishop of Lincoln between 1342 and 1347). Thomas Bek’s registers have largely been unexplored, and this project aims to provide new insights into this neglected figure’s time in episcopal office. It considers how familial connections within the Church; internal pressures within the Church; and the changing needs of the diocese influenced and affected the contents of his registers during his tenure.

Travis Linehan

Thesis Topic: The institution of Merovingian queenship

Travis Linehan is a part-time MPhil/PhD student in Medieval Studies. He achieved a BA Historical Archaeology at the University of York and obtained an MA in Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln.

Travis's interests are in both Frankish history and the study of historical queenship and his thesis, supervised by Drs Graham Barrett and Robert Portass, is focused on defining queenship as an institution within the Merovingian kingdoms, using a mixture of personal letters, record evidence, archaeological evidence, and contemporary histories written by figures such as Gregory of Tours.

Thesis Topic: Lions, dragons and other fabulous creatures: understanding animal representations at Lincoln Cathedral, 1250-1350

Val Marden is a part-time MPhil/PhD student in the School of History and Heritage. She obtained her BA in Archaeological Studies at the University of Leicester before working within various government departments and the RAF, and before taking early retirement from full time employment in 2016. She gained her MA (with Distinction) in the study of the Country House at the University of Leicester in 2018. Her dissertation examined the decoration of eighteenth-century English country house furniture with animal forms and motifs.

Val’s thesis continues the theme of animal representations, as she explores the potential meanings behind some of the creatures sculpted in stone at Lincoln Cathedral during the years 1250-1350, an important timescale encompassing several significant building projects. Such images have often been dismissed as meaningless, merely decorative, grotesque or just amusing japes by masons, yet they are situated in important spaces where they were seen by both laity and the clergy. Val’s research examines the likely significance of the animals and monsters in the spaces they inhabit, how the representations of creatures change over time and what effect they may have had on their different viewers.

Nicola C. Meyrick

Thesis Topic: Continuity, martyrdom and assimilation: remaining Christian in Al-Andalus

Nicola studied for a BA in American History and Politics at Manchester, and then worked for many years at the BBC as a current affairs producer and editor. She took early retirement in 2015 and then did an MA in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at King’s College, London. She still has some involvement in journalism and is a trustee of a broadcasting charity. She has seen leaving the BBC as an opportunity to follow her lifelong passion for Spain and for medieval history. She is now researching a thesis, supervised by Dr Jamie Wood, on the lives and practices of Christians living in the parts of the Iberian peninsula under Muslim rule between (approximately) 711 and 1085.

Sonya Nikiforova 

Thesis Topic: Gendering high medieval rulership: The construction and performance of relational categories of femininity and masculinity in early Capetian and Anglo-Norman royal couples, 1050-1189.

Sonya Nikiforova is an MPhil/PhD student in the School of History and Heritage. She obtained her BSc in International Relations in the University of London in 2020. In 2023 she graduated with distinction from the MLitt in History programme of the University of the Highlands and Islands. She is interested in high and late medieval queenship in England and France, social and cultural roots of the formation of the categories of femininity and masculinity in Western Europe, and Breton courtly culture. 

She is currently working on her PhD thesis supervised by Professor Amy Livingstone (University of Lincoln) and Professor Katherine Lewis (University of Huddersfield). Her thesis is a comparative study of the construction and performance of masculinities and femininities within royal couples in England and France between 1050 and 1189. Sonya is aimed at exploring the relational nature and fluidity of gender performance of kings and queens, and at challenging the idea of a strict gendered 'division of duties' within English and French royal couples. In particular, she looks at Matilda of Scotland and Henry I, Matilda of Boulogne and Stephen of Blois, Anne of Kiev and Henry I, and Adelaide of Maurienne and Louis VI.

Susan Phillips

Thesis Topic: Family Dynamics, Networks, and Intergenerational Influences: Women as Agents of Christianisation in Merovingian Gaul and Anglo-Saxon England

With a BA in French and History from the University of Leeds, and following a long career in education, teaching firstly modern foreign languages in secondary schools, then BA Education Studies at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln, Sue completed her Master’s degree in Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln in 2019. Passionate about lifelong learning, Sue also completed a BSc in Geosciences with the Open University in 2014. She is now a part-time MPhil/PhD student, having begun her research in October 2020 under the supervision of Drs Graham Barrett, Robert Portass, and Jamie Wood.

Inspired by letters written by senior churchmen to Merovingian princesses in the late 6th and early 7th century urging them to secure the conversion of their pagan husbands by obeying the scriptures and by following the example of their common ancestor Queen Clothilde, wife of Clovis I, Sue is interested to know to what extent female intergenerational influences impacted on women as agents of Christianisation in the Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon periods. Her thesis poses two main questions. Firstly, with a specific focus on women, how do contemporary texts and letter collections of Merovingian Gaul portray the importance of, and attitudes towards, maintaining the elite family unit? And secondly, as a consequence, to what extent did family heritage and intergenerational influences impact on the religious beliefs and actions of younger generations of women?

Mark Presneill

Thesis Topic: Lincolnshire baronial family fortunes in the 12th Century: A comparative study of four lesser-known families between 1066 and 1216

Mark is a part-time PhD student in the School of Humanities and Heritage.  He obtained his BA in History at Cardiff University in 1987 and his MA in Curriculum Studies at Christ Church Canterbury in 1994.  Mark has over 30 years’ experience as a teacher of History and 15 years as a senior member of staff in a large Lincolnshire comprehensive school.

Mark’s PhD thesis examines the success and failure of a small number of lesser known Lincolnshire baronial families during the 12th century; Blankney, Freiston, Redbourne and Tattershall. The research investigates the impact of the changes to central government on local baronies and how powerful these families were in their areas of influence.  There is consideration of the different strategies these families employed to survive, maintain and extend influence.

John Sandy-Hindmarch

Thesis Topic: The memory of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings among reenactors and living historians

John Sandy-Hindmarch is a PhD student in the School of Film and Media. Having achieved a 1st in History at Nottingham Trent University in 2016, he then went on to obtain an MA in Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies from the University of Nottingham. Since completing his MA in 2018, John’s research interests have shifted from analysing these early medieval peoples in their historical context towards how they have been perceived and remembered since their historical occurrence, particularly in the present.

In this context, John’s PhD project explores how the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings are understood, received, and connected with by Anglo-Saxon and Viking reenactors and living historians. Employing a qualitative method, John looks to uncover the nature of these individuals’ understanding of the Anglo-Saxon and Viking past, how this understanding is formed, and the extent to which their connections to the period are emotionally charged. Through this research John hopes to make a valuable contribution to the fields of both medievalism and memory studies, exploring how a period of the distant medieval past is brought into relation with the present.

Gary Stephen

Thesis Topic: The impact of Christian philosophies of animal rationality on ecclesiastical hunting practices in 13th Century England

Gary is a full-time MPhil/PhD student with the School of History and Heritage. He obtained his BA in English and History Studies from the University of Lincoln/UCNL in 2019. Following this, he came to Lincoln to complete an MA in Medieval Studies, which he achieved in 2020.

He is currently working on a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Professor Louise Wilkinson and Dr Jamie Wood. His work seeks to examine the ways in which 13th Century philosophers and theologians sought to make sense of an expanding understanding and experience of animal behaviour through the practice of Natural Philosophy. As animals came to be seen as more complex than previously assumed, it became important for scholars to establish a boundary between human and non-human animals. Further, the thesis seeks to examine the ways in which these arguments influenced and informed the hunting practices of English ecclesiastics and their subordinates.

Paula Del Val Vales

Thesis topic: Iberian and English queens’ households in the thirteenth century

Paula Del Val Vales is an MPhil/PhD student in the School of History and Heritage. She obtained her BA in History in the Universidad Complutense of Madrid with distinction in 2019. In 2020 she completed her MA in Medieval Studies at King’s College London. Her research interests include Iberian and English queenship, royal households, and women’s history.

She is currently working on her thesis supervised by Professor Louise Wilkinson and Dr Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo. Her thesis is a comparative study of queens’ households and courts in the thirteenth century across three kingdoms: Castile, Aragon, and England. Through this thesis she aims to explore the queens’ establishments, their resources and personnel, and whether their households constituted their own power bases or not. This thesis will also have a particular focus on the unedited household and wardrobe accounts of Eleanor of Provence, queen of England.

We also work closely with research students in Classics, who share similar interests in Latin culture:

Joe Broderick

Thesis topic: The epigrammatist Martial as social commentator on Flavian Imperial Rome

Joe Broderick has recently started his PhD with the School of History and Heritage, following his graduation with a First-Class Honours Degree in History BA, and a Distinction Pass in his MA in Medieval Studies. He specialised in Roman and early to mid-medieval history, particularly the Roman army and their relationship with the emperors, and Anglo-Saxon England. His supervisors for his project are Dr Graham Barrett and Dr Jamie Wood, with Graham acting as lead supervisor.

His thesis concerns the first-century AD epigram writer Martial, and his potential role as social commentator. We can see through his work, in his presentation of the everyday life occurrences in the Rome of his day. Broadly speaking, this research project will aim to fill in some of the gaps in the social history of early imperial Rome through Martial’s Epigrams and analysis of the literary genre, giving us greater awareness of the picture of Rome and her people Martial sought to portray, within the framework of a social (and to an extent literary) history study.

Many historians have pointed out that, due to the nature of Martial’s writing and the contradictions present within the Epigrams, his presentations of everyday life cannot be taken at face value. Some have even gone so far as to dismiss Martial as a source of any serious historical study, a chief reason for this selection of Martial for my thesis. This does not negate the value of the source for research, it just needs a more gentle and nuanced examination. It is arguable that Martial’s Epigrams offer richer and more varied depictions of Rome’s places, objects, and structures than any previous work in the Roman poetic tradition, and it is through these examinations the aims can be achieved.

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Carr, Michael. "Motivations and response to Crusades in the Aegean c.1300-1350." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/740c3fde-bef4-80f0-0168-9a0addf7562b/9/.

Turnator, Ece Gulsum. "Turning the Economic Tables in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Latin Crusader Empire and the Transformation of the Byzantine Economy, ca. 1100-1400." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10753.

Maxson, Brian. "Claiming Byzantium: Papal Diplomacy, Biondo Flavio, and the Fourth Crusade." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6176.

Maxson, Brian. "The Crusades and the Lost Literature of the Italian Renaissance." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6225.

Packard, Barbara. "Remembering the First Crusade : Latin narrative histories 1099-c.1300." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/30bc10ac-ba25-0f0e-cef0-76af48433206/9/.

Sinclair, Kyle James. "War writing in Middle Byzantine historiography : sources, influences and trends." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3977/.

Davies, Eve Miriam. "From womb to the tomb : the Byzantine life course AD 518-1204." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4117/.

Spacey, Beth Catherine. "Miracles and marvels in Latin narrative histories of the Crusades, 1095-1204." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7267/.

Gosselin, Kyle. "Rhetorical Tales Of Jerusalem And Constantinople: Cities And Strategies Of The Crusades." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/827.

Perry, Guy J. M. "The career and significance of John of Brienne, king of Jerusalem, emperor of Constantinople." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6efad77d-921d-499a-8fa6-eccabcb0c608.

Leopold, Antony Richard. "Crusading proposals of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries." Thesis, Durham University, 1998. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/977/.

Roche, Jason T. "Conrad III and the Second Crusade in the Byzantine Empire and Anatolia, 1147." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/524.

Sbisa', Tiziana. "The Cathedral at Nicosia in the Age of Frederick II and Louis IX: Issues of Patronage, Structure, and Meaning." Cleveland, Ohio : Case Western Reserve University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1243841684.

Akisik, Aslihan. "Self and Other in the Renaissance: Laonikos Chalkokondyles and Late Byzantine Intellectuals." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10884.

Kabala, Jakub Jan. "Imagining Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish, Roman and Byzantine Concepts of Space and Power in the Slavlands, c. 750-900." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13068538.

Ucar, Gulnur. "The Crusader Castles In Cyprus And Their Place Within The Crusading History." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605612/index.pdf.

Pilhage, Olof. "The power of God : A study of power in medieval religious discourse regarding the crusades." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157290.

Boysel, Nicholas A. "Bernard of Clairvaux and the Knights Templar: The New Knighthood as a Solution to Violence in Christianity." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1249053482.

Harpster, Matthew Benjamin. "A re-assembly and reconstruction of the 9th-century AD vessel wrecked off the coast of Bozburun, Turkey." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2695.

Gilmer, James. "The Song Remains the Same: Reconciling Nikephoros Bryennios’ Materials for a History ." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1567338149373255.

Galliker, Julia L. "Middle Byzantine silk in context : integrating the textual and material evidence." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5560/.

Ewing, Hannah E. "A “Truly Unmonastic Way of Life”: Byzantine Critiques of Monasticism in the Twelfth Century." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397653075.

Donaldson, Danielle. "Studies in material, political and cultural impact of the Byzantine presence in early medieval Spain, c. 550-711." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283900.

Blake, Stacey A. "Competition or admiration? : Byzantine visual culture in Western Imperial Courts, 497-1002." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5958/.

Tzavella, Elissavet. "Urban and rural landscape in early and middle Byzantine Attica (4th-12th c. AD)." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4321/.

Vukovic, Alexandra. "The ritualisation of political power in early Rus (10th-12th centuries)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/266696.

Lau, Maximilian Christopher George. "The reign of Emperor John II Komnenos, 1087-1143 : the transformation of the old order." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3e1770a8-f5f8-4a0d-bb8d-65be6a2d6d80.

Lamey, Emeel S. "The Idea of ‘Holy Islamic Empire’ as a Catalyst to Muslims’ Response to the Second Crusade." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2359.

Lowe, John Francis. "Baldwin I of Jerusalem: Defender of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1029.

Miynat, Ali. "Cultural and socio-economic relations between the Turkmen states and the Byzantine empire and West with a corpus of the Turkmen coins in the Barber Institute Coin Collection." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7411/.

Karantabias, Mark-Anthony. "The Struggle Between the Center and the Periphery: Justinian's Provincial Reforms of the A.D. 530s." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/31.

Spingou, Foteini. "Words and artworks in the twelfth century and beyond : the thirteenth-century manuscript Marcianus gr. 524 and the twelfth-century dedicatory epigrams on works of art." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bd537f93-ab26-4a0c-8ee3-658da343effa.

Vukasinovic, Milan. "Nicée, Épire, Serbie. Idéologie et relations de pouvoir dans les récits de la première moitié du XIIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0025.

Theron, Jacques. "Rethinking the Crusades." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13767.

Gomez, Miguel Dolan. "The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: The Culture and Practice of Crusading in Medieval Iberia." 2011. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/1079.

Morris, April Jehan. "Imag[in]ing the East : visualizing the threat of Islam and the desire for the Holy Land in twelfth-century Aquitaine." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5449.

Pugliano, Elizabeth. "All those who fight: the motif of single combat in Romanesque art, c. 1050-1215." Thesis, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/14524.

Taylor, Christopher Eric. "Waiting For Prester John : the legend, the Fifth Crusade, and medieval Christian holy war." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-2666.

Leney-Granger, Christoff-Johann. "La Diègèsis sur la construction de Sainte-Sophie : analyse et héritage." Thèse, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22503.

Hupin, Éric. "La Quatrième Croisade : analyse du traité de Venise." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/8847.

Srncová, Karolina. "V zajetí. Díla Hanse Schiltbergera, Jiřího Uherského a Konstantina Mihailoviće jako svědectví o hledání identity a kulturní integraci v muslimském světě." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-332259.

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2022 History Dissertation Topics

Topic 1: who was responsible for european civil wars an exploratory study identifying the determinants of the 1870 franco-prussian war.

Research Aim: This research aims to determine various political, social, and economic factors which caused European civil wars. It will use the 1870 Franco-Prussian War as a case study to analyse which political, social, or economic forces played their part in exaggerating this war. Moreover, it will use various historical lenses to evaluate the available evidence in this area to determine the factors objectively. Lastly, it will recommend ways through a historical viewpoint that could’ve saved lives in these wars.

Topic 2: What were the Socio-Economic Discontents of the Second Industrial Revolution? A Marx-Engels Perspective

Research Aim: This study identifies various socio-economic discontents of the second industrial revolution through the Marx-Engels communist lens. It will analyse how the second industrial revolution brought undesirable socio-economic changes in Europe and the rest of the world. It will develop a socio-economic framework by using Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s critique of capitalism and social class theory to show the second industrial revolution divided the entire world into two classes. Moreover, it will show how imperialist powers used the second industrial revolution to change the world order.

Topic 3: Did Mongols Bring Social Change in Ancient Arab? Impact of Mongols Invasion on Ancient Arab Culture and Traditions

Research Aim: This research intends to analyse the social change brought by Mongols in ancient Arab. It will find the impact of the Mongols’ invasion on ancient Arab culture and traditions by identifying channels such as slavery, forced marriages, etc., through which Mongols brought a cultural change. Moreover, it will find whether Arabs could come back to their original state or modern Arabs have their traits? And through which ways did ancient Arabs resist those changes?

Topic 4: What is Common among the United States’ Iraq, Japan, Afghanistan, and Cuba Invasions? A Comparative Study Finding the United States Common Political and Economic Motives

Research Aim: This study compares the United States’ Iraq, Japan, Korea, Afghanistan, and Cuba invasions. It will identify the United States’ common political and economic motives among these invasions, which gave it an incentive to pursue. It will be a multidisciplinary study exploring geopolitical, geo-economic, geo-strategic, and historical aspects of the invasions. Moreover, it will also compare the post-invasion situation of these countries to show how these countries dealt with it and how can which didn’t recover from invasion can improve.

Topic 5: The Life and Work of William Shakespeare: His Influence on The Modern Theater- A Critique of Dr. Johnson

Research Aim: This study sheds light on the life and work of William Shakespeare by analysing his role in modern theater. It will try to highlight his contribution in the field of literature and theater but through the approach of Dr. Johnson. Johnson’s works will be evaluated to see whether William Shakespeare has done something significant for modern theater or it is just a one-sided view of William Shakespeare’s followers. It will analyse various works of William Shakespeare from Johnson’s critical lens to provide an objective assessment.

Covid-19 History Research Topics

Topic 1: the history of coronavirus..

Research Aim: This study will explore the historical facts and theories related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Topic 3: History of Spanish flu

Research Aim: In 1918, a deadly pandemic called Spanish flu hit the world, and many people lost their lives. This study will highlight the history of the disease, symptoms, and similarities with the present crisis of COVID-19.

Topic 3: The history of various types of pandemics and their consequences

Research Aim: This study will investigate the history of various types of pandemics and their consequences on people’s health, economy, and the world’s transformation after it.

History Research Topics 2021

Topic 1: types of communications in history.

Research Aim: This research aims to identify the types of communications in history

Topic 2: Terrorism and its impact on people's life

Research Aim: This research aims to address terrorism’s impact on people’s life

Topic 3: Treaty of Lausanne and the world's predictions about Turkey in 2023

Research Aim: This research aims to conduct a study on the Treaty of Lausanne and the world’s predictions about Turkey in 2023

Topic 4: Mythological stories and their impact on the youth

Research Aim: This research aims to study the impact of mythological stories on the youth.

Dissertation Topics from the Nineteenth Century

Topic 1: analysis of church wealth expropriation and political conflict in 19th century colombia..

Research Aim: The research will explore the events of political violence after independence in Colombia regarding the redefinition of the Catholic Church’s property rights. The study primarily focuses on the country after 1850 to measure the influence of that expropriation of the Church’s assets on political violence.

Topic 2: Exploring the impact of 19th-century development of refrigeration on The American meatpacking industry.

Research Aim: The city of Chicago in the United States is known to be the center of modern refrigeration development due to it being the hub of the meatpacking industry. The proposed research will analyse Chicago’s meatpacking sector’s development and its significant role in developing critical technologies such as refrigeration. The study will examine the development of refrigerated transport and cold storage units to comprehend the city’s meatpacking industry’s local and later global success throughout the 19th century.

Topic 3: Examining the impact of the telegraph in the United States of America

Research Aim: The research uses document analysis to examine the influence of the invention of the telegraph in the United States of America. Specifically, the study will analyse how the telegraph revolutionized communication and news broadcasting to newspapers over national and international networks.

Topic 4: The impact of industrial conflict and technology on the development of technical education in 19th-century England.

Research Aim: The research will analyze the role that 19th-century employers played in training and educating the young industrial workers in England. The purpose of the study is to comprehend the various factors that influenced the development of technical education while discovering the reason for antagonistic relations with skilled workers, which may have caused the Great Strike and Lockout of 1897.

Topic 5: The impact of changing gender relations on childbearing populations in the 19th-century Netherlands.

Research Aim: The research will look to comprehend the changes in childbearing patterns using a sequence analysis approach. The study will also try to understand the association between gender relations, historical fertility records, and women’s reproductive patterns in the 19th century Netherlands.

Topic 6: Examining the shift of hierarchical and ethnocentric foreign relations to the western model of international relations in 19th-century Japan.

Research Aim: The research will analyse the 19th century, a period of transition in Japanese foreign policy. The study will mainly focus on the Russo-Japanese relations using document analysis to assess the four stages of shift that led Japan from an ethnocentric foreign policymaker to the Western-type without colonization and defeat in war.

History and Religious Dissertations

Topic 1: the impact of popular culture on evangelical christians in america..

Research Aim: The research uses document analysis to examine the impact that popular culture has had in shaping Evangelical Christian thought in the United States from the 1960s to the 2000s. The study focuses on analysing the variables that have allowed Evangelicalism to becoming a middle-class populist movement.

Topic 2: Fertility, feminism, and the American revolution

Research Aim: The research using document analysis, analyses the impact of the American Revolution on declining birth rates in the colonies and the increase of family limitation among white free women. The research will investigate the intentions of founding American women on their rejection of abundant fertility and a patriarchal family and the existent or non-existent role that colonial Christians played.

Topic 3: The decline of irrational and magical ideologies in England 1500-1600.

Research Aim: The research analyses how the introduction of religion, specifically early Christianity, had an impact on declining the conventional thought processes that used irrationality or magic as their basis. The research will use document analysis as its research method.

Topic 4: The impact of religion on innovation, 1604.

Research Aim: The research examines how Sir Frances Bacon’s epistle “Of Innovations” argues for the positive potential of innovation from the understanding of the Biblical scriptures. The study will also explore the relationship between Bacon and the English Protestant Church.

Topic 5: The role of churches and religion in World War II.

Research Aim: The research looks to examine the role of churches in Europe during WWII. The study will also analyse their religious ideologies and their deeds as institutions to impact the perceptions of World War II. The research will be conducted using document analysis.

History and Sociology Dissertations

Topic 1: race, poverty, and food deserts in cardiff, 1980-2016..

Research Aim: The research examines the demographic and spatial patterns that have shaped access to supermarkets in low-income neighbourhoods in Cardiff from 1980 to 2016. The research methods used will be quantitative.

Topic 2: Impact of World War II rationing on British cuisine

Research Aim: The research analyses the impact of rationing items by the British Ministry of Food on the specific culture from the 1940s to the 1980s. The research uses variables of socio-economic classes and geographic locations of the country to examine the cultural impacts it had on the British palate during the time. The research methods will include quantitative and qualitative analysis.

Topic 3: Impact of religious doctrines and ideologies on racism and racist factions in the USA.

Research Aim: The research analyses the relationship between different Christian sects and racial prejudice among groups of Christians based on geographic location (North or South) in the United States after the 2016 presidential elections. The research will be quantitative in nature but will incorporate qualitative techniques of historical document analysis to examine how racism in the country has changed since the Civil Rights Era of the United States.

Topic 4: The historical development and impact of public transportation in Shanghai, China, 1843-1937.

Research Aim: The research will analyze the impact of public transportation on the development of Shanghai’s urban landscape using the variables of tradition vs modernity, state and social relationships, and technology and society relations. The research will provide a historical analysis of the city from the British and the Opium Wars’ colonization to the 20th century. The study will use qualitative document analysis and quantitative techniques as research methods.

Topic 5: The impact of water resource management, technological solutions, and urban growth after World War II on Atlanta, Georgia.

Research Aim: The purpose of the dissertation is to examine the origins of water-related issues in Atlanta by discovering the challenges that public officials, activists, and engineers faced in the area in terms of planning and enacting an effective environmental policy after World War II in the metropolitan area of Atlanta. The research will use historical document analysis as its methodology.

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Historical People and Events Dissertation Topics

Topic 1: examining the events and people giving rise to winston churchill.

Research Aim: The research examines the network of friends and colleagues of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill on how they influenced the primer’s reputation after his retirement and death. The study will analyze the history of the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, and the influence that Sir John Colville had on shaping Churchill’s image.

Topic 2: The rise of the right-wing woman in 20th-century Britain- Analysing Margaret Thatcher and Mary Whitehouse

Research Aim: The relationship between conservative powerhouses Margaret Thatcher and Mary Whitehouse was well known to the public for its traditional undertones. The research will examine the relationship between the two women using document analysis, particularly the public presentation relationship, to better understand the importance of conservative women in Britain. The research will analyze the twentieth-century political and cultural contexts that gave rise to these two women.

Topic 3: Examining the cooperative transformational leadership of Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk.

Research Aim: The research will study the transfer of power in South Africa by focusing on the cooperative leadership strategies, policies, and personal characteristics of leaders such as Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk. The research will examine how these two leaders could bring systematic revolution through democratic and peaceful means.

Topic 4: Pablo Picasso- The making of “Guernica” and its historical context.

Research Aim: The research will analyze the history of paintings of people suffering from convulsion of war, explicitly focusing on Goya. The paper will examine the factors and influences on Pablo Picasso that lead to the development of “Guernica.” The research will analyze how Picasso depicted real history snatches with symbolism that resonated with people.

Topic 5: Analysing the role of women in the Crusade Movement.

Research Aim: The research examines women’s contribution to the Crusades and its impact on propaganda, recruitment, organization of the crusades, and financing of the campaigns. The study will also survey their roles in looking after families and properties while also giving liturgical support at home for those on the crusade campaigns.

Topic 6: The impact of the Harlem Renaissance on urban landscaping, Jazz music, and literature.

Research Aim: The research will examine the Great Migration of the 1910s in the United States, where a concentration of African American population moved North causing demographic shifts. The study will analyse Toni Morrison’s Jazz, Persia Walker’s Black Orchid Blues, and other works regarding music and urbanization.

Topic 23: John F. Kennedy- Rise of American foreign power and South Vietnam.

Research Aim: The research will analyze John F. Kennedy’s foreign policy strategies’ central themes. The paper examines the themes of counterinsurgency, credibility, and commitment in South Asia, particularly South Vietnam, to improve his credibility after the Bay of Pigs incident. The paper will observe the president’s fascination regarding psychological warfare, military forces, and countering ‘communism’ aggression in Southeast Asia.

Italian Unification History Dissertation Topics

Topic 1: the preservation of italy- analysing the fragility of italian unity 1866-68..

Research Aim: The research analyses the impact of the Austro-Prussian War at its conclusion in July 1866. The paper analyses factors such as the fall of the Liberal government in Britain that impacted the fragility of the Italian Unification. The paper examines the historical event through the bilateral relationship between a newly rising Italy and Britain.

Topic 2: Analysing the Italian post-unification period- Racial and colonial factors influencing modern Italians.

Research Aim: The research will analyse the rise of Italian fascism with the premise that it rose from the failures of previous liberal governments. The study particularly examines the first Liberal period after unification which led to the explosion of civil war in the South of Italy. The study will analyse the racial and colonial factors that influenced the competition with Western European nations for imperialistic endeavours.

Topic 3: Prison system management in 19th-century Italian prisons after unification.

Research Aim: The research analyses accounting practices in prisons using documentation analysis of the prison management system of major Italian States in the early 19th century. The study aims to use various accounting methods to uncover the potentially socially damaging tools of accounting in prison reforms to discipline individuals of lesser status.

Topic 4: The impact of the mafia on Italian education after unification.

Research Aim: The research will use historical point data to analyse the impact the Mafia had on the level of education between 1874 to 1913. The particular geographic constraint of the study will be restricted to Sicily, Italy, after the unification of the Italian Kingdom in 1861.

German Unification History Dissertation Topics

Topic 1: examining the parties and problems of governance in the german empire..

Research Aim: The research will examine using document analysis the various processes for political restructuring that caused the founding of many political parties, interest groups, and civic associations. The research analyses how the Federal Republic strategized to transfer German Democratic Republic citizens’ sovereign rights to international institutions and the Federal Republic institutions.

Topic 2: Analysing the collapse of the GDR and the re-unification of Germany.

Research Aim: The research will analyse the factors and influences surrounding the collapse of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1898 to 1990 and the reunifications of East and West Germany. The research will also analyse the role of businesses with regards to the collapse, particularly the German business elites and their relationship with the Soviet Union.

Topic 3: Analysing the impact of Bismarck on the capitulation of German liberalism.

Research Aim: The research will analyse the impact the German National Liberal party of 1866 to 1867 had to support Otto von Bismarck’s policy of German unification. The study will examine the political stakes involved and the philosophy of Realpolitik on the Unification of the German Empire.

Topic 4: The impact of radical nationalism and political change after Bismarck.

Research Aim: The research will examine the factors that gave rise to the radicalization of the German right under the politics of Otto von Bismarck. The study looks to find evidence of German fascism prior to World War II. To conduct the research, a thorough document analysis will be done with an extensive literature review.

World War I Dissertation Topics

Topic 1: the response of german immigrants to discrimination in the usa during world war i.

Research Aim: The research will examine the impact of caste-based discrimination on assimilation patterns of immigrant minorities, specifically German immigrants in the United States during WWI. The study will understand if discriminated minority groups increase their assimilation efforts to avoid discrimination and public harassment. The research will use naming patterns of children and records of petitions of naturalisations to conduct the study empirically.

Topic 2: Analysing the impact of affective experience and popular emotion on WWI International Relations.

Research Aim: The research will examine the factors of communal emotion and mass emotion during the outbreak of WWI to demonstrate the political significance of widespread sentiment. The research looks to study the factors with regard to contemporary populism.

Topic 3: The impact of military service in WWI on the economic status of American Veterans?

Research Aim: The research will analyse the different registration regimes during the WWI draft to find their impact on economic outcomes. The research will use empirical from 1900 to 1930 United States to study short term impact of military service while the United States census of 1960 is used to determine the long term impacts. The data collected will be of household income and draft population of the time in WW1.

Topic 4: Examining the Impact of Quarrying Companies Royal Engineers in WWI to support British armies on the Western Front.

Research Aim: The research will examine the history of the Quarrying Companies unit within the Royal Engineers in WWI. The study will analyse the impact that the group had on British armies on the Western Front, particularly for the aid of the British Expeditionary Forces until its disbandment in 1919.

The Great Depression (Britain 1918-1939) Dissertation Topics

Topic 1: the impact of the great depression on labour productivity..

Research Aim: The research will examine the labour productivity of the UK manufacturing industry during the Great Depression. The research will be of empirical methodology and collect data of actual hours of work, real output, and employment statistics. The study will prove that during the Great Depression, output per work-hour was counter-cyclical between 1929 and 1932.

Topic 2: Analysing the discourse of British newspapers during the Great Depression.

Research Aim: The research will use document analysis and text analysis to examine the rhetoric of British newspapers when unemployment rises. The study will accurately analyse the Great Depression in Britain by determining how the stigmatisation of poverty changes in the rhetoric of newspapers when discussing unemployment.

Topic 3: The Impact of the Great Depression on British Women Migration 1925-1935.

Research Aim: The research will analyse the impact that the Great Depression had on the migration of women out of Britain to the rest of its empire. The study will use empirical data to analyze the Society for Oversea Settlement of British Women (SOSBW). The research will assess if the society’s training programme influenced the employment and migration of women.

Topic 4: The Great Depression and British industrial growth- Analysing economic factors contributing to the Great Depression in Britain.

Research Aim: The research will analyse the British deceleration of industrial growth and the percentage rate of growth as the cause of the Great Depression in Britain. The research will examine the contribution of the Industrial Revolution and its initial rapid percentage of rate of growth causing ‘retardation.’ The study will be empirical and analyse historical patterns of Britain’s national economy.

Second World War Dissertation Topics

Topic 1: analysing brazilian aviation in world war ii.

Research Aim: The research will analyse the extent to which Brazilians were actively engaged in combat on the Brazilian coast and in the European theatre. The study will primarily focus on the global conflict through the Forca Aerea Brasileira, FAB, or the Brazilian Air Force development before participation in the Second World War.

Topic 2: The impact of invention secrecy in World War II.

Research Aim: The research will examine the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent secrecy orders which put over 11,000 US patent applications given secrecy orders. The study will analyse how this policy impacted keeping technology from the public during the war effort, specifically radar, electronics, and synthetic materials.

Topic 3: Analysing aerial photographic intelligence in WWII by British geologists.

Research Aim: The research will examine the period of WWII from 1939 to 1945, when intelligence was collected from aerial photographs by the Allied Central Interpretation Unit. The study will assess the history of aerial photographic information based on geology contributing to the Allied landings in Normandy in 1944.

Topic 4: Analysing British propaganda in the United States during WWII.

Research Aim: The research will analyse the strategies that British propagandists used to understand the American opinion of WWII during the war and for post-war relationships. The study will investigate the policies and factors that contributed to keeping the wartime alliance and creating an acceptable political climate in the United States for post-war cooperation.

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History of Nazi Germany Dissertation Topics

Topic 1: the impact of discrimination against jewish managers on firm performance in nazi germany..

Research Aim: The research will examine the large-scale increase in discrimination in Nazi Germany to cause the dismissal of qualified Jewish managers in large firms. The study will analyse the persistent stock prices of firms, dividend payments, and return on assets after the discriminatory removal of Jewish managers.

Topic 2: Examining children’s literature in Nazi Germany

Research Aim: The research will analyse children’s literature which was propagandised between 1933 and 1945 under the National Socialists party. The paper will examine the various themes, specifically the Nordic German worldview, and how German values were distorted to produce a homogenous folk community.

Topic 3: Shifting from liberal education of the Weimar Republic to Nazi educational reforms- Analysing educational reforms under the Nazi government.

Research Aim: The research will examine education reform that the National Socialist government implemented in elementary education. The research will look to accumulate personal accounts of families and students who experienced the era to better comprehend the educational reforms. The study seems to under how these educational reforms moulded student ideologies.

Topic 4: The effects of antisemitism in film comedy in Nazi Germany,

Research Aim: The research will explore the themes of antisemitism in film comedy produced during the reign of the Nazi party in Germany. The research will study how themes impacted the perceptions of people living in Germany post-war. The research will use document analysis and empirical analysis to document and examine the themes and attitudes.

History of Cinema Dissertation Topics

Topic 1: analysing the history and politics of bollywood..

Research Aim: The research will explore the various events in Indian film history that have allowed it to become a global sensation. The paper will analyse its market-driven triumph against Hollywood imports starting from the 1930s. The paper will also examine the nationalist social views of films produced in Bollywood during the 1950s.

Topic 2: The role of cinematic depictions influencing popular understanding of the Spanish Civil War.

Research Aim: The research will examine the role that cinema played in shaping the understanding of the Spanish Civil War. The study will focus on fictional films that were produced in Spain and Hollywood between the 1940s and the early years of the 21st century.

Topic 3: Analysing distinctive characteristics of Korean films.

Research Aim: The research will analyse the characteristics of Korean films and examine their historical development. The research will focus on the eras of the Japanese colonial period to 1945 when the American army occupied South Korea. The study will analyse the role of censorship throughout this time period in producing Korean films.

Topic 4: Examining the history of cinema in Britain since 1896.

Research Aim: The research will explore the development of cinema exhibitions and cinema-going in Britain in 1896. They will analyse various factors that led to the rapid growth of cinema in Britain just before WWI. The study will examine factors such as the position of cinema, development of modern spaces, artistic respectability, the invention of sound, and cinema as individual entertainment.

History of Racism Dissertation Topics

Topic 1: analysing the factors influencing institutional racism in america..

Research Aim: The research will explore the complicated history of racism in the United States. It will analyse how racism has become embedded throughout American society from land ownership, education, healthcare, employment, and the criminal justice system. The research will use a mixed-methods research approach to gather data.

Topic 2: Examining the relationship between racism and environmental deregulation in the Trump Era.

Research Aim: The research will analyse the possible relationship between environmental deregulation and racism between 2016 and 2017 under the Trump Administration. The study will primarily collect data from executive actions, ecological events, and tweets from the President during this time period. The study will document racist events that were targeted at people of colour, Asians, Arabs, South Asians, Muslims, and indigenous persons.

Topic 3: Analysing the experience of racism in English schools towards Eastern European Migrants.

Research Aim: The research will use qualitative design to analyse the experience of racism faced by students of Eastern European descent. The research will use the framework proposed by the Critical Race Theory and Critical Conceptions of Whiteness to conduct the study. The research will focus on the racism experienced by these students as marginal whiteness for their various linguistic accents.

Topic 4: The impact of racism on Afro-Italian entrepreneurship.

Research Aim: The research will use qualitative data to analyse the participation of Afro-Italian women entrepreneurs in start-ups relating to beauty, style, and hair care lines. The study explores the obstacles that young black women entrepreneurs face in Italian due to racism and how their inclusion in small economies changes the perception of Blackness and Black womanhood related to Italian material culture.

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History of Spanish Civil War Dissertation Topics

Topic 1: examining the role of international nurses during the spanish civil war..

Research Aim: The research will use document analysis, primarily memoirs, to explore the life and work of international nursed participation during the Spanish Civil War. The study will examine their role with regard to contributions made to Spanish nursing during the war.

Topic 2: Examining republican propaganda during the Spanish Civil War.

Research Aim: The research will explore the propaganda used by the Republicans of the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939 to support their ideology of the war. The paper will focus on three primary forms of media – newspapers, cinema, and music. The study will conduct the analysis using historical context to examine its effectiveness in propagating the Republican messages.

Topic 3: The history of British Battalions in the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War.

Research Aim: The research will examine the role, experiences, and contributions of British volunteers to the Spanish Republic through the British Battalion of the 15th International Brigade. The study will accurately analyse the motivations of the volunteers to join the International Brigades and participate in the Spanish Civil War.

Topic 4: British cultural perspectives on the Spanish Civil War.

Research Aim: The research will explore the cultural perspectives of the political understanding of the British responses to the Spanish Civil War. The study will examine the mass culture and personal experiences of British visitors to Spain in the 1930s.

History of the United States Dissertation Topics

Topic 1: the impact of ‘the frontier’ on american expansion and imperialism..

Research Aim: The research explores the idea of ‘manifest destiny, its connection to the American frontier, and its impact on imperialism. The study focuses on how the American perception of savagery and civilisation is related to expanding the American frontier.

Topic 2: Analysing the American public opinion on the War in Vietnam.

Research Aim: The research uses empirical data to analyse the American public attitude with regard to the Vietnam Wat. The data will be analysed using demographic groups and perception studies. The study will investigate how these perceptions eventually shaped government policy preferences during the Vietnam War.

Topic 3: Analysing the inaugural speeches of re-elected US presidents since WWII.

Research Aim: The research identifies, analyses, and assesses the use of individual style in inaugural speeches of re-elected US presidents since WWII. The research will be conducted using document analysis of lexical and semantic levels. The study will assess how the inaugural addresses are shaped to reflect the public policy of re-elected presidents.

Topic 4: Analysing the rise of white power and paramilitary groups in the United States.

Research Aim: The research analyses the rise and expansion of white nationalists, racist far-right groups using government publications, journalistic accounts, and archival records. The research focuses on the failure in Vietnam, giving rise to white power movements. The study will examine various events to assess the factors and significance that caused an increase in paramilitary groups in the United States.

Topic 5: Examining the rise of new white nationalism in America.

Research Aim: The research will use data acquired from speeches, books, and internet sources written by white nationalists to assess the shift of white nationalist ideas of oppression of other races to a view of victimhood of white nationalists. The research will use an extensive literature review to document the development of white nationalism in American history while also considering the development of social media.

Historic Events of Early Twentieth Century Dissertation Topics

Topic 1: the creation of uniquely american musical sounds; changes in classical music from the 19th to 20th century..

Research Aim: The research explores the changes in American classical music, shifting from its traditional European origins to a more defined American sound. The study will contend that historical events such as the upheaval and shifts of society during the American Civil War were the main factors of the creation of new American classical music.

Topic 2: The influence of political parties on democracy and party-state relations in the 20th-century.

Research Aim: The research will analyse institutional reforms of party-state relations, including constitutions, electoral laws, and party laws in France and Italy during the 20th century. The study will examine the impact of party entanglement on contributing to democratisation in Europe.

Topic 3: The impact of suspicion and distrust on conflict coverage- A case study of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Research Aim: The research will use inductive-qualitative analysis to examine the journalistic narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. To do so, the factors of suspicion of information sources, awareness of being under suspicion, and distrust of peer journalists are used to examine the trust of journalists and the dilemma they face in hostile environments.

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Important Notes:

As a student of history looking to get good grades, it is essential to develop new ideas and experiment with existing history theories – i.e., to add value and interest to your research topic.

The field of history is vast and interrelated to so many other academic disciplines like literature , linguistics , politics , international relations , and more. That is why it is imperative to create a history dissertation topic that is particular, sound, and actually solves a practical problem that may be rampant in the field.

We can’t stress how important it is to develop a logical research topic; it is the basis of your entire research. There are several significant downfalls to getting your topic wrong; your supervisor may not be interested in working on it, the topic has no academic creditability, the research may not make logical sense, and there is a possibility that the study is not viable.

This impacts your time and efforts in writing your dissertation as you may end up in the cycle of rejection at the very initial stage of the dissertation. That is why we recommend reviewing existing research to develop a topic, taking advice from your supervisor, and even asking for help in this particular stage of your dissertation.

While developing a research topic, keeping our advice in mind will allow you to pick one of the best history dissertation topics that fulfill your requirement of writing a research paper and add to the body of knowledge.

Therefore, it is recommended that when finalizing your dissertation topic, you read recently published literature to identify gaps in the research that you may help fill.

Remember- dissertation topics need to be unique, solve an identified problem, be logical, and can also be practically implemented. Take a look at some of our sample history dissertation topics to get an idea for your own dissertation.

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A well-structured dissertation can help students to achieve a high overall academic grade.

• A Title Page
• Acknowledgments
• Declaration
• Abstract: A summary of the research completed
• Table of Contents
• Introduction : This chapter includes the project rationale, research background, key research aims and objectives, and the research problems to be addressed. An outline of the structure of a dissertation can also be added to this chapter.
• Literature Review : This chapter presents relevant theories and frameworks by analysing published and unpublished literature available on the chosen research topic, in light of research questions to be addressed. The purpose is to highlight and discuss the relative weaknesses and strengths of the selected research area while identifying any research gaps. Break down of the topic, and key terms can have a positive impact on your dissertation and your tutor.
• Methodology : The data collection and analysis methods and techniques employed by the researcher are presented in the Methodology chapter which usually includes research design , research philosophy, research limitations, code of conduct, ethical consideration, data collection methods, and data analysis strategy .
• Findings and Analysis : Findings of the research are analysed in detail under the Findings and Analysis chapter. All key findings/results are outlined in this chapter without interpreting the data or drawing any conclusions. It can be useful to include graphs, charts, and tables in this chapter to identify meaningful trends and relationships.
• Discussion and Conclusion : The researcher presents his interpretation of the results in this chapter, and states whether the research hypothesis has been verified or not. An essential aspect of this section is to establish the link between the results and evidence from the literature. Recommendations with regards to implications of the findings and directions for the future may also be provided. Finally, a summary of the overall research, along with final judgments, opinions, and comments, must be included in the form of suggestions for improvement.
• References : Make sure to complete this in accordance with your University’s requirements
• Bibliography
• Appendices : Any additional information, diagrams, or graphs that were used to complete the dissertation but not part of the dissertation should be included in the Appendices chapter. Essentially, the purpose is to expand the information/data.

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