Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Staff associated with our Centre supervise PhD and Master's students in many disciplinary and cross-disciplinary areas of medieval and early modern studies.
Current PhD and Master of Arts (Research) students
- Helen Balfour (MA - Research)
Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Supervised by Stephen Chinna, Bob White
School of Social and Cultural Studies - Cedric Beidatsch (PhD)
First Globalisation': The Origins of Capitalism Reconsidered
Supervised by Rob Stuart, Mark Edele
School of Humanities - Karl Birkelbach (PhD)
The Plague Debate: A Turning Point of Historiography?
Supervised by Susan Broomhall, Philippa Maddern
School of Humanities - Joshua Brown (PhD)
Multilingualism in the letters of the 14th century Tuscan merchant Francesco di Marco Datini
Supervised by John Kinder, Lorenzo Polizzotto
School of Humanities - Ildy Button (PhD)
The double paradox: nature and gender in the works of four twelfth-century Latin writers.
Supervised by Susan Broomhall, Philippa Maddern
School of Humanities - Clare Deeves (PhD)
The presentation of Christianity in Dominican theological responses to Islam during the 13th century.
Supervised by Philippa Maddern
School of Humanities - Sarah Dempster (PhD)
Society and Landscape in 17th century England.
Supervised by Bob White, Andrew Lynch
School of Social and Cultural Studies - Margaret Dorey (PhD)
'Poison in the pot': English concerns about food purity and regulation c. 1500 - c. 1800
Supervised by Stephanie Tarbin, Philippa Maddern, Pam Sharpe
School of Humanities - Lisa Elliot (PhD)
'Taking the poor out of poor relief: the Hotel-Dieu of Paris in the sixteenth century'
Supervised by Susan Broomhall, Philippa Maddern
School of Humanities - Sarah Finn (PhD)
'Father of the Italian nation': Dante Alighieri and the construction of Italian national identity 1861-1945
Supervised by Richard Bosworth, Giuseppe Finaldi, Lorenzo Polizzotto
School of Humanities - Marina Fiore (PhD)
‘Girolamo Savonarola and the Creation of Modern Italy”
Supervised by Lorenzo Polizzotto, John Kinder
School of Humanities - Sylvia Kershaw (PhD)
Australian Medievalist Literature.
Supervised by Andrew Lynch, Kieran Dolan
School of Social and Cultural Studies - Alicia Marchant (PhD)
‘Reading the Subtexts: Chroniclers, National Identity and the Changing Environment of Owain Glyndwr's Persona 1400-c.1550‘
Supervised by Philippa Maddern, Susan Broomhall
School of Humanities - Rebecca Martin (PhD)
'Unnatural' Sexual Acts in Restoration England, 1660-1685
Supervised by: Susan Broomhall, Jacqueline Van Gent, Rob Stuart
School of Humanities - Shane McLeod (PhD)
‘Conquest and Settlement: The impact of the micel here on England north of the Thames, c.865-900’
Supervised by: Philippa Maddern, Alexandra Sanmark, Andrew Lynch
School of Humanities - Ann Minister (PhD)
Family Strategies and Relationships: the labouring poor of Derby and south Derbyshire c.1750-1834
Supervised by: Stephanie Tarbin, Susan Broomhall
School of Humanities - Mark O'Connor (PhD)
Translating Shakespeare’s Plays into contemporary English verse, with translations of 3 plays: Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, Henry IV Part 1.
Supervised by Dennis Haskell, Bob White, Stephen Chinna - Laurie Ormond (PhD)
A World Worth Saving: How Contemporary Fantasy Fiction Negotiates Genre.
Supervised by Andrew Lynch, Van Ikin - Sandy Riley (PhD)
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Supervised by: Susan Broomhall, Jacqueline Van Gent
School of Humanities - Scilla Stack (PhD)
'The Education of Vision? Reading Mary Ward's Mission in Catholicism in her own lifetime and in the twenty-first century.
Supervised by: Susan Broomhall, Jacqueline Van Gent
School of Humanities - Lesley Silvester (PhD)
A longitudinal study of poor families in early modern Norwich c. 1560-1700
Supervised by: Stephanie Tarbin, Susan Broomhall
School of Humanities - Karina Welna (PhD)
Greed, Welath and Profit in Medieval English Drama
Supervised by Andrew Lynch, Christopher Wortham, Bob White
School of Social and Cultural Studies - Bob Weston (PhD)
Medical Consulting by Letter in France 1700 - 1800
Supervised by: Susan Broomhall, Philippa Maddern
School of Humanities - Michael Woodcock (PhD)
Cultural negoatiations of masculinities in the works of William Shakespeare in script, on stage and into film.
Supervised by Christopher Wortham, Bob White
School of Social and Cultural Studies
Recently completed PhD and Master of Arts (Research) students
- Andrew Broertjes (PhD)
Winning the People's Voice: Usurpation, Propaganda and State-Sponsored History in Fifteenth Century England
Supervised by: Philippa Maddern, Ernest Jones
School of Humanities - Marina Gerzic (PhD)
The intersection of Shakespeare and popular culture: an intertextual examination of some millennial Shakespearian film adaptations (1999-2001), with special reference to music
Supervised by: Bob White, Stephen Chinna
School of Social and Cultural Studies - Brett Hirsch (PhD)
Werewolves and Women with Whiskers: Figures of Estrangement in Early Modern English Drama and Culture.
Supervised by Christopher Wortham, Bob White
School of Social and Cultural Studies - Joseph Christensen (PhD)
Shark Bay 1616-1991: the spread of science and the emergence of ecology in a world heritage area
Supervised by: Charlie Fox, Jenny Gregory
School of Humanities - Nicole Crawford (PhD)
'Witches Write History: Remembering the Old Religion and Constructing a "Historical Imaginary"'
Supervised by: Rob Stuart, Jacqueline Van Gent - Joanne McEwan (PhD)
Women and Negotiations of Support in the London and Midlesex Criminal Courts, c.1730-1820
Supervised by: Stephanie Tarbin, Patricia Crawford, Pam Sharpe
School of Humanities - Lesley O'Brien (PhD)
Institutions and authority in London c1370-c1535: a historiography of pre-Reformation church-state relations
Supervised by: Philippa Maddern, Patricia Crawford
School of Humanities - Margaret Purdie (MA - Research)
An account of John Cananus of the siege of Constantinople in 1422
Supervised by John Melville-Jones, Yasmin Haskell
School of Social and Cultural Studies - Kate Riley (PhD)
The Good Old Way Revisited: The Ferrar Family of Little Gidding 1625-37
Supervised by Patricia Crawford, Philippa Maddern
School of Humanities - Jessica Walker (PhD)
Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors: Thomas Jefferson and the role of English history in the building of the American nation
Supervised by Philippa Maddern, Ethan Blue
School of Humanities
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