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Recent Graduates

We're very proud of our postgraduate researchers' work, and are delighted to be able to showcase a number of our recent doctoral graduates below, whose theses range across the disciplines that make up the Centre. Clicking any one of the links below will take you to the corresponding entry in the University's scholarship repository, Open Research ·¬ÇÑÊÓÆµ (ORE), where you will be able to read an abstract of their thesis (and, for non-embargoed theses, download it in its entirety).

Student name Year Discipline Thesis title
2019 History The depiction of women in the historical work of Ibn Wasil
2020 Arab and Islamic Studies Al-Waqidi and the Early Islamic Conquests
2024 Classics Court Politics, Imperial Authority, and the Role of the Emperor in the Reign of Theodosius II
2021 History Ecclesia reformata? John Morton's Contemporaries and the Re-making of the English Church
2018 History Re-evaluating Norman Ethnic Identity in Europe, 911-1140

2023

Medieval Studies

Performance, Rhetoric, and Restraint: The Role of Emotions in Thirteenth-Century Iberian Elite Culture

2022

Medieval Studies

Devon's Economy During the Long Fifteenth Century: Wealth, Population and Trade

2023

Archaeology

The Medieval Iron Industry of the Weald

2023

History

Visualising Faith: Stained Glass Windows, Belief and the Parish in the South-West of England (c. 1400 - 1700)

2024

History

Communing With Nature: Fairies in English Ritual Magic and Occult Philosophy, 1400-1700

2024

Archaeology

Contextualising and Interpreting Historic Church Graffiti in the Risbridge Hundred Suffolk

Ryan Kemp

2019

 

Kingship in Twelfth-Century English and German Saints’ Lives and Bishops’ Biographies

2022 Archaeology Reconstructing the Development of the Early Medieval Church with Somerset as a Case Study
2024 History In Papirio: The Introduction and Acceptance of Paper in Medieval England, 1275-1400
2024 History Tewkesbury Abbey: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Benedictine Medieval Monastery and its Material Culture
2020 Archaeology The Wandering Herd: The Medieval Cattle Economy of the South-East, c.450-1450
2020 History Each According to His Manner: Latinate Chroniclers in England 1377–1422
2021 Modern Languages Imagining and Enacting Education in the French of Post-Conquest England
2018 Archaeology The Archaeology of Castle Slighting in the Middle Ages
2019 Archaeology Topographical Legacies of Monasticism: Evolving Perceptions and Realities of Monastic Landscapes in the Southern Welsh Marches
2020 Medieval Studies Celebrating local saints in a civitas. The role of archbishops in the production of local liturgy in Trier (882- c. 1050)
2019 History Hernando de Baeza and the making of Catholic Spain
2022 Archaeology Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites in the Landscape of South-West Wales
2024 Medieval Studies The Education of a Noble Beast: The Breaking-in and Training of Horses in Medieval France (1250-1550)
2024 English John Trevisa and the Gospel of Nicodemus
2024 Medieval Studies Lay Religion in Late Medieval Bridgwater
2021 History The Trading Community of ·¬ÇÑÊÓÆµ, 1470-1570
2019 History Between Paris and Al-Andalus: Bishop Maurice of Burgos and His World, c. 1208-1238