MEMO Themes

Disability and disfigurement; gender and sexuality; medicine, health, and the body; queer theory

Enquiries from prospective research students are particularly encouraged in the following areas:

• gender and spirituality in medieval literature (supervisors: Liz Herbert McAvoy / Laura Kalas Williams / Roberta Magnani)
• gender and the wellbeing of body and soul in medieval literature (supervisors: Liz Herbert McAvoy / Laura Kalas Williams / Roberta Magnani / Alison Williams)
• medicine in France in the sixteenth and/or seventeenth centuries (supervisors: Adam Mosley / Alison Williams)
• pain and suffering in medieval literature, medicine, and culture (supervisors: Laura Kalas Williams / Alison Williams)

Landscape; maps and cartography; sacred spaces and enclosure; towns and urban culture

Enquiries from prospective research students are particularly encouraged in the following areas:

• early modern cosmography (supervisors: Adam Mosley / Stefan Halikowski-Smith)
• medieval anchoritism and other forms of reclusion (supervisors: Liz Herbert McAvoy / Laura Kalas Williams)
• the literature of place in the middle ages (supervisors: Liz Herbert McAvoy / Laura Kalas Williams / Roberta Magnani)

The environment; gardens and wild places; natural history; the mathematical sciences and natural philosophy

Enquiries from prospective research students are particularly encouraged in the following areas:

• gender and medieval gardens in their literary contexts (supervisors: Liz Herbert McAvoy / Laura Kalas Williams / Roberta Magnani)
• gender, sexuality, and the natural world in medieval literature (supervisors: Liz Herbert McAvoy / Laura Kalas Williams / Roberta Magnani / Alison Williams)
• queering maternity and spirituality in the middle ages (supervisors: Liz Herbert McAvoy / Laura Kalas Williams / Roberta Magnani)
• representations of natural philosophy in literary sources (supervisors: Alison Williams / Adam Mosley)
• science and/or medicine in France in the sixteenth and/or seventeenth centuries (supervisors: Adam Mosley / Alison Williams)
• the senses and emotions in the medieval imaginary (supervisors: Liz Herbert McAvoy / Laura Kalas Williams / Roberta Magnani)

Image: The Lover and Dame Idleness outside the walled garden (BL MS Harley 4425, f.12v). By kind permission of the British Library.

Diplomacy; Europeans overseas; litigation; the Crusades; warfare and military technology

Prospective research students are particularly encouraged in the following areas:

• the monarchies and aristocracies of the Anglo-Norman, Angevin, and Capetian realms, 11th-13th centuries (supervisors: Daniel Power / Simon John)
• the frontiers of Latin Christendom: concepts and aristocratic power (supervisors: Simon John / Daniel Power)
• medieval charters and cartularies, and documentary culture (supervisors: Daniel Power / Simon John)
• historical writing in the central Middle Ages; political thought and culture (supervisors: Daniel Power / Simon John)
• soldiering and fear in eighteenth-century Europe and America (supervisors: Leighton James / Richard Hall)

Drama and the theatre; language and literature; manuscript studies and book history; performative speech

Enquiries from prospective research students are particularly encouraged in the following areas:

• narratives and counter-narratives of the formation and operation of canons  (supervisors: Roberta Magnani / Liz Herbert McAvoy / Eoin Price)
• queering and/or feminising of the canon (supervisors: Laura Kalas Williams / Roberta Magnani)
• sixteenth- and/or seventeenth-century print culture (supervisors: Eoin Price / Adam Mosley)

Archaeology; heritage and public history; material culture; medievalisms; pre-modern historical practice; the classical tradition

Enquiries from prospective research students are particularly encouraged in the following areas:

• early modern afterlives of the medieval (supervisors: Laura Kalas Williams / Roberta Magnani / Liz Herbert McAvoy / Adam Mosley / Eoin Price)
• historical writing in the central Middle Ages; political thought and culture (supervisors: Daniel Power / Simon John)
• saints, medieval and postmodern (supervisor: Roberta Magnani / Liz Herbert McAvoy / Laura Kalas Williams)

Including: castle and community; landscape and history; law and ethnicity; society and economy; towns, poets, and trade; war and conquest

Enquiries from prospective research students are encouraged in any of the areas listed above.