This page contains contact and research information for medievalists around the world who share an interest in creating and contributing to an online community for medieval studies. The list of UK and international contacts on this page will expand throughout the academic year.

If you would like to contribute your own contact and research interest information to this page, please complete a Submit Contact Information form. It will be forwarded to us, and we will post your information on our website as soon as possible.

Johan Bergstrom-Allen
Email: johan (@britishlibrary.net)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Research: I am currently performing research for a PhD on the vernacular (English) literature produced by Carmelite friars in the British Isles in the late Middle Ages.

Katie Brokaw
Email: brokaw (@umich.edu)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: University of Michigan
Research: Medieval drama
Chaucer
Chretien de Troyes
Medieval manuscript illumination
Religious culture


French, Latin

Ozgen Felek
Email: felek (@umich.edu)
Period:
Institution: Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
Research:

Lynn Forest-Hill
Email: lynnevda (@clara.co.uk)
Period: 700-900, 1300-1500
Institution: Centre for Antiquity and the Middle Ages University of Southampton
Research: My main area of research has been in medieval Englsh drama, particularly the 'bad langauge' - insults, abuse, oaths, mockery. I have recently been relating medieval drama to C16 drama especially looking at the theatricality of female characters. I am also working on the Old English poem 'The Battle of Maldon' from the point of view of medievalism, so my languages are Old English, Middle English, Latin, and as modern languages: basic French and German.

Brian Gourley
Email: BMAGTHOIREALAIGH (@hotmail.com)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: The Queen's University of Belfast
Research: Currently completing a PhD on grotesque and carnivalesque transgression in the writings of John Bale. Research interests include Medieval Popular Culture & Festivity; Morality Plays; Reformation Drama & Polemical Writing; Gender & Sexuality; Grotesqueness; Medieval Film; Fool-Playing; Representations of the Apocalypse. Languages Spoken: French & German (advanced); Irish Gaelic (Intermediate)

Phillip Guilbeau
Email: guilbeau (@umich.edu)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: University of Michigan
Research: Theology; religious iconography; devotional trends and practice; religious communities

Languages:good - Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French; fair - German and Dutch

Alaric Hall
Email: alaric (@cantab.net)
Period: 500-1100
Institution: University of Helsinki
Research: Hey ho! My research aims to reconstruct and interpret key aspects of medieval world-views, focusing on the world-views of groups other than intellectual elites. My doctoral research looked at beliefs in 'elves' in medieval England, affording a case-study in the changing character and significance of non-Christian belief. I'm now working on constructions of space in Anglo-Saxon England (and early medieval north-west Europe more generally).

Joni Hand
Email: JoniH (@nyc.rr.com)
Period: 500-700, 1100-1500
Institution: CUNY Graduate Center, NY (St. Francis College, NY)
Research: My primary interest is in the cult of saints as it is manifest in visual imagery. Illuminated manuscripts pertaining to saints' lives from Italy and France are also a research interest of mine. I can read French and Italian and a little Latin.

Patricia Har
Email: prh27 (@cornell.edu)
Period: 900-1500
Institution: Cornell University, US
Research: French and English medieval literature (Old and Middle English & Old French); hagiographic and confessional narratives; intersections in the composition of personal and historical narrative/fiction; contemporary appropriations of the medieval; and literary theory.

Patrick Hornbeck
Email: patrick.hornbeck (@stx.ox.ac.uk)
Period: 1300-1550
Institution: Christ Church/Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford
Research: My research focuses on the genesis and evolution of medieval heretical movements, especially the dissenting 'Lollard' communities which developed in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. As a theologian venturing (hopefully with care) into the provinces of literary and historical scholars, I hope to study the changing ways and idioms with which dissenters expressed their objections to the institutional church. Other interests include Catharism, Waldensianism, contemporary Roman Catholic ecclesiology, and the phenomenon of dissent in 21st-century religion.

Emily J. Hutchison
Email: ejh120 (@cam.ac.uk)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Research: "I am mainly interested in political history in the later Middle Ages, 1350-1500. I specialize in French history. I am entering the third year of my PhD at York. My PhD thesis examines the duke of Burgundy's use of propaganda during the first stage of civil war in France, 1404-1419. My other interests include the Hundred Years War, and late medieval political literature, particularly that which relates to the civil war in France. My Master's thesis (York, 2001-2002) was entitled: 'Health and Illness in the Body Politic: Christine de Pizan's Response to the Civil War in Early Fifteenth-Century France (1405-1413)'. "

Hunt Janin
Email: huntjanin (@aol.com)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: Independent writer and researcher
Research: I need to make e-mail contact with people who know a lot about medieval universities. My publisher wants me to write a book on this subject (for university undergraduates) and, as a mere generalist, I need to find some experts to consult!

Elizabeth Lapina
Email: ealapina (@yahoo.com)
Period: 1100-1300
Institution: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Research: First Crusade, medieval historiography, French Romanesque art

Carl Edwin Lindgren
Email: celindgren (@panola.com)
Period: 1100-1300
Institution: American Military University
Research: Chivalry, educational history (1300-1550), religious military orders

Thomas Lyon
Email: lyonnnn (@sbcglobal.net)
Period: 700-900, 1300-1500
Institution: UC Berkeley, CA (non-professional affiliation)
Research: Bertrand Du Guesclin; gothic architecture (1000-1200)

James Maiello
Email: jvmaiello (@umail.ucsb.edu)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: UC Santa Barbara, CA
Research: Medieval music & liturgy (plainchant) Music for the Asperges 15th century plainchant & polyphony Medieval Italian society & politics Languages (primarily reading): Latin, German, Italian

Nicole Marafioti
Email: njm28 (@cornell.edu)
Period: 700-1100
Institution: Cornell University
Research: I work on early medieval history and Old English literature, focusing especially on: medieval notions of sin; hagiography and saints' cults; Anglo-Saxon homilists; popular piety; monsters and monstrosity; food and consumption.

Lesley Morden
Email: lamorden (@sfu.ca)
Period: 700-900
Institution: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Research: I am completing my PhD dissertation entitled: "How much damage did the Northmen do? An analysis of the material impact of the raids of the Northmen on Northern France in the ninth century." I am utilizing archaeological evidence to either support or refute annalistic accounts of the Northmen's raids in the ninth century. The geographical focus of my research includes sites in France (north and east of the Loire) and the Low Countries (Belgium, Netherlands).

I am bilingual (English/French), I also read Latin and Italian fluently. I can manage to read German, Spanish, Dutch and Flemish.

John Munns
Email: (@)
Period:
Institution:
Research:

Daniela Nori
Email: danielanori (@tiscali.it)
Period: 500-1300
Institution: Vatican School of Paleography
Research: My research interests include:north africa pre-islamic period; relationship between the papacy and the bishops and the biantine administration; s. Francesco and his relationship with the Church of Rome by Bullarium s.Francisci. Languages include ancient Greek and Latin, medieval Latin, French, English, and Spanish.

Aurelio Pastori
Email: apastori (@um.edu.uy)
Period: 900-1300
Institution: 1) Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay; 2) SAEMED (Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Medievales), Argentina; 3) The Medieval Academy of America, USA
Research: Idea of Crusading and Holy War. Chivalry and Ideology. Medieval Church and the idea of war. Languages: Spanish

Camarin Porter
Email: cmporter (@wisc.edu)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research: I'm interested in the history of the Franciscan order in general, and 14th-century intellectual history. My research so far has focused on Fransican theologians at Oxford and Paris during the 1320s and 1330s, especially Chatton and Ockham. I'm interested in tracking the scriptural command to love one's neighbour (and consequently to love God) through the theological and philosophical debates of this period, although I've recently shifted interest a bit and am looking at this topic in biblical commentaries from the 14th century. My languages are Latin, French, German, and Italian.

Colin Purcell-Lee
Email: colinpurcelllee (@btinternet.com)
Period: 1100-1300
Institution: University of Lincoln
Research: Research interests include medieval marginalia related to editing marks/symbols: do these represent standardised systems across Judaic, Islamic and Christian MSS?; any differences between lay scribal/clerical (particularly monastic) editing marginalia; European dimension? Pre-Reformation Marginalia representing Dunce/Dunce's cap. Interests include Europe and Middle East. I have some knowledge of medieval Latin.

Yael Raizman
Email: yraizman (@study.haifa.ac.il)
Period: 1100-1300
Institution: Haifa University, Israel
Research: I am interested in medieval philosophy (especially epistemology and perception), science and music. The M.A. thesis I have just submitted focused on Robert Grosseteste and Albertus Magnus, and their treatment of light as divided in two (lux and lumen). My current research focuses on an attempt to find within musical Latin texts hints to an epistemology based not on vision and visual forms, but on hearing or on sounds as closest to being and truth. I begin with Boethius and Augustine, and see where I get.

Anne Robbins
Email: hincmariana (@yahoo.co.uk)
Period: 700-900
Institution: Institute of Historical Research
Research: Hincmar of Laon

William Rossiter
Email: wtrossiter (@hotmail.com)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: University of Liverpool
Research: My research interests lie mainly in the sphere of cultural and textual interaction between Italy and England in the late-medieval and early-modern periods. In particular I am interested in the influence of the work of Francesco Petrarca (or Petrarch) upon English poetics from Chaucer to Wyatt. The late-medieval reception of the trecentisti (Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio)as a whole, and the progression of English lyric form part of my wider syncretic interest.

William Sayers
Email: ws36 (@cornell.edu)
Period: 1100-1300
Institution: Cornell University, US
Research: Western European languages and literatures (Germanic, Romance, Celtic), with a current interest in the literary deployment of specialized lexicon (hunting, seafaring, trades, warfare); cross-cultural contacts as reflected in language; interfaces with other disciplines (archaeology, legal, economic and military history).

Nhora Lucia Serrano
Email: nserrano (@wisc.edu)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research: I am a comparatist at heart. And so, I am interested in late medieval Spain and late medieval France. I work specifically with the manuscripts which came from the scriptorium of Alfonso X, el sabio, and the collected works of Christine de Pizan. My interests are in illuminated manuscripts, writings that are considered to be Royal historiography, and writings that contain the figures of the Virgin Mary, Sibyl, Archangel Gabriel, biblical prophets, and classical myths. I am also very much interested in the role of the visual and the role of women in these time periods and in these languages. My languages are: Spanish, French, Italian, Galician-Portuguese and Latin.

Erik Spindler
Email: erik.spindler (@oriel.ox.ac.uk)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: Oriel College, Oxford
Research: My research is on marginals in England and the Low Countries (mostly London and Bruges) and on cross-Channel migration, with wider interests in urban culture in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Alex Steer
Email: alex (@cantab.net)
Period: 1100-1550
Institution: Oxford English Dictionary
Research: English lexicography and historical linguistics, especially Middle English and Early Modern English. English literary and textual history and historical bibliography. Languages: English, Latin, French, some German and Ancient Greek.

Larry Swain
Email: theswain (@operamail.com)
Period: 500-1100
Institution: University of Illinois at Chicago
Research: I am an Anglo-Saxonist. A good deal of my work focuses on various types of literary interconnections of Old English and Anglo-Latin texts: manuscript interconnections, commentaries, linguistic, use of the Roman and Christian past, contacts with the continent, Ireland, the East, Scandinavia literarily and linguistically and so on. The three paths in which this exploration takes place are linguistic (Old English, Old Norse, Old Irish, Anglo-Latin etc), manuscripts, and the Bible and biblical imagery.

Levan Urushadze
Email: levzur (@mail2scientist.com)
Period: 1100-1500
Institution: Senior Research Fellow of the Georgian National Museum (Tbilisi)
Research: Research interests: source studies of the history of Georgia and the Caucasus of the X-XVIII centuries, history of the Bagrationi Royal Dynasty of Georgia (575-1810), history of intercultural relations of the Caucasian nations (peoples), new history of Georgia (1783-1990).



Tiago Viúla de Faria
Email: genetour (@hotmail.com)
Period: 1300-1500
Institution: "Ordem da Cavalaria do Sagrado Portugal; Institute for Medieval Studies - New Univ. of Lisbon
Research: My main research interest is chivalry in theory and practice during the late Middle Ages. I have worked on several aspects of this, especially the portrayal of chivalry in sources related to the battle of Najera (1367). Specific interests: Western European knighthood and chivalry; Chivalric and court culture; Warfare and military technology; Anglo-Portuguese relations; methodologies and the employment of historical re-enactment. My research has been focusing essentially on the Portuguese and English territories and their cultural spheres. Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish. Fair knowledge of Latin and French.