STAFF
Current officers of the centre:
Director: Dr Anne Lawrence
Chair of the Board of Studies: Dr Ken Dark
Assistant Director for Teaching and Learning: Philippa Hardman
Research Interests of the GCMS Staff. If you want more information
on the person, clicking on a name will open a new window with
their personal page.
Grenville
Astill
BA, PhD (Birmingham), FSA. Professor of Archaeology.
British Academy Research Readership 1990–92. Recipient
of two national awards for his archaeological fieldwork. Publications
and research centre on urban and rural settlement, the medieval
economy, technology and monastic archaeology. Co-editor and
major contributor to The Countryside of Medieval England
(1988) and Medieval Farming and Technology. The
Impact of Agricultural Change in Northwest Europe (1997).
Long-term research programmes include excavations and fieldwork
on the precinct and estates of Bordesley Abbey, a medieval
Cistercian monastery in Worcestershire: A Medieval Industrial
Complex and its Landscape: the Metalworking, Watermills and
Workshops of Bordesley Abbey was published in 1993. He
co-directed a multidisciplinary landscape survey in Eastern
Brittany, now published as The East Brittany Survey: Fieldwork
and Data (1994) and The Breton Landscape (1997).
Malcolm
Barber
BA, PhD (Nottingham), FRHistS. Professor of History.
Director of the Centre, 1986-89. British Academy Research
Readership, 1989-91. Author of The Trial of the Templars
(1978), The Two Cities: Medieval Europe 1050-1320
(1992), The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of
the Temple (1994), Crusaders and Heretics, 12th to
14th Centuries (1995), The Cathars (2000), and,
with Keith Bate, The Templars (2002), and many articles
on the Templars, the Cathars, popular crusading movements,
the lepers in medieval society, western attitudes to Latin
Greece, and the reign of Philip the Fair. At present preparing
an annotated translation of Ambroise, History of the Holy
War, with Marianne Ailes. Leverhulme Research Fellowship,
1997-98; Senior Fellow of the National Humanities Center in
North Carolina, 1998-99; Visiting Professor at the University
of East Carolina, 1999-2000.
Adrian
Bell
BA (Hull), MA (Reading), PhD (Reading).
Director of Teaching and Learning at the ISMA Centre, University
of Reading. His PhD thesis was on Military organisation in
the reign of Richard II and concentrates on the period of
Appellant supremacy. His book, War and the Soldier in
the Fourteenth Century will be published by Boydell in
December 2004. Adrian is also interested in medieval finance
and was recently awarded an ESRC research grant to investigate
advance wool contracts in the middle ages. The findings of
this project will be published as a volume in the List and
Index Society series in 2005.
Ken Dark
BA, PhD, FSA. Chair of the GCMS 2004-; Director of the Research Centre or Late Antique and Byzantine Studies; holds honorary professorships at several European and North American universities. Chair of the Late Antiquity Research Group. Archaeologist specialising on the first millennium AD in Europe and the Mediterranean. Current research includes the archaeology of Roman and Byzantine urbanism, Roman and Byzantine landscapes, Byzantine pottery, and fourth to seventh-century Britain. Fieldwork projects in Britain, Israel and Turkey.
Paul
Davies
BA (Reading), MA (London), PhD (London).
Lecturer in History of Art. Secretary of the Centre 1994–97.
Author of many articles on Italian Renaissance architecture.
Revised L.H. Heydenreich's Architecture in Italy 1400-1500,
Yale University Press, 1996. Particular interests include
the design of centrally planned churches in Italy during the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the work of Michele
Sanmicheli about whom he has just finished a book. At present
cataloguing the Renaissance architectural drawings in the
Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Co-editor of a series of
books for Cambridge University Press entitled 'Architecture
in Early Modern Italy'.
Roberta
Gilchrist
BA, DPhil (York). Professor of Archaeology. Archaeologist
to Norwich Cathedral. Author of Gender and Material Culture:
The Archaeology of Religious Women (1994), Contemplation
and Action: The Other Monasticism (1995) and Gender
and Archaeology: Contesting the Past. Research interests
in the archaeology of religion and belief, particularly in
the study of medieval archaeology and gender in medieval society.
Christopher Hardman
MA, BLitt (Oxon). Senior Lecturer in English. Research
interests and publications in late medieval and renaissance
literature. Teaching interests in Old and Middle English.
Phillipa
Hardman
BA (East Anglia), BLitt (Oxon). Director of the Centre 1995-98. Assistant
Director for Teaching and Learning 2004-5. Senior Lecturer
in English and Centre lecturer in Palaeography. Publications
and research on Middle English literature (particularly Chaucer
and romances) and manuscript studies.
Heinrich
Härke
MA, DrPhil (Göttingen). Lecturer in Archaeology.
Publications and research on early medieval burials, Anglo-Saxon
weapons and warfare, and post-Roman migrations. Fieldwork
project in the North Caucasus (Russia). Author of Angelsächsische
Waffengräber (1992), co-author of Early Saxon
Shields (1992) and editor of Archaeology, Ideology
and Society (2000). Visiting lecturer at Kiel University
in 1988–89, Leverhulme-British Academy Senior Research
Fellowship 1997-98.
Gill
Knight
BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (Reading). Academic Secretary
of the Centre, 2001-4. Lecturer in Department of Classics
and Centre lecturer in Medieval Latin. Has published on the
letters of Peter the Venerable, including The Correspondence
between Peter the Venerable and Bernard of Clairvaux (2002).
She is at present working on Latin verse-epistles from
late antiquity to the Middle Ages.
Anne
Lawrence
MA (Cantab), MA, PhD (London). Lecturer
in History, and Centre lecturer in art history. Interested
in early medieval cultural and intellectual history. Particular
expertise and articles focus on aspects of English Romanesque
manuscript illumination, and book collection and study. Author
of articles on the Alfredian manuscript tradition, and the
Durham scriptorium, as well as a monograph on Manuscripts
in Northumbria in the 11th and 12th centuries. She is
Reviews Editor of Reading Medieval Studies.
Françoise
Le Saux
Licence ès Lettres (Lausanne), MA (Wales),
Dr ès Lettres (Lausanne). Senior Lecturer
in French. Formerly of Lausanne (CH), Geneva (CH) and Freiburg-im-Breisgau
(D). Secretary of the Centre, 1999-2001; Director of the Centre,
2001-4. Treasurer of the Centre 2004-5. Secretary of the British
Branch of the International Arthurian Society. Research interests
focus on translation and cultural adaptation in the Middle
Ages, with special emphasis on French, English and Celtic
literatures. Publications include Layamon’s Brut:
The Poem and its Sources (1989), Amys and Amylion
(1993) and a number of articles on a wide range of subjects.
Editor of Myth and its Legacy in European Literature
(1996) and other collections of essays. Editor of Reading
Medieval Studies 1997–.
Peter
Noble
MA (Cantab), PhD (London). Professor of
French Studies. Director of the Centre 1983–86 and 2004-5.
Author of Love and Marriage in Chrétien de Troyes
(1982), Béroul and the Folie Tristan de Berne
(1982), Le Voyage d'Oultremer de Nompar, Seigneur de Caumont
(1975) and numerous articles on the French romances, chansons
de geste, and medieval chronicles. Also, with Françoise
Le Saux, Phillipa Hardman and Neil Thomas, The Growth
of the Tristan and Iseut Legend in Wales, England, France
and Germany (2003). He is currently preparing a new edition and translation of La Conquetê de Constantinople by Robert de Clari.
Brian O'Callaghan
BA, PhD (Manchester), Lecturer in the History of Art
and Architecture, Continuing Education, and Head of Continuing
Education. Secretary of the Centre 1997-99. Particular interests
in the art and architecture of the later middle ages, especially
in England and France. Currently preparing a catalogue of
the medieval stained glass in the ancient county of Berkshire
for the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi.
David
Oderberg
BA, LLB (Melbourne), DPhil (Oxford), Professor of Philosophy.
Author of The Metaphysics of Identity over Time; Moral
Theory; Applied Ethics; editor of Form and Matter:
Themes in Contemporary Metaphysics; and co-editor of
Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics.
He has published many articles in various philosophical journals.
His chief interests are contemporary metaphysics, philosophical
logic and moral philosophy, with special interests in Aristotle,
Aquinas and all aspects of medieval philosophy.
Tessa
Rajak
MA, DPhil (Oxon). Professor of Ancient History.
Associate Director of the AHRB Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations and Director of the Centre’s ‘Greek Bible in the Graeco-Roman World Project’. Author
of Josephus: the Historian and his Society (1983;
2nd edition, 2002) and The Jewish Dialogue with Greece
and Rome (2000): co-editor of The Jews among Pagans
and Christians in the Roman Empire (1992) and of
Philosophers and Power (2002). Author of articles on
the political, social and cultural history of the Jews in
the Hellenistic world and in the Roman empire, and on religious
history. Contributor to the Cambridge Ancient History,
second edition vol. 9, 1994, and Oxford Classical Dictionary,
3rd edition.
David
Robey
Professor of Italian at Reading in the School of Modern Languages. He was formerly Professor of Italian at
Manchester University, and is an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson
College, Oxford. He has published on 15th-century humanism
(educational and poetic theory), language and style in Dante
and Renaissance narrative poetry, the computer analysis of
literature, and modern critical theory. He has recently completed
a computer-based study on Sound and Structure in Dante's
'Divine Comedy' (Oxford University Press, 2000), and
an AHRB-funded project to extend the work to the major narrative
poems of the Italian Renaissance. He is also joint editor
of the Oxford Companion to Italian Literature.
Margaret
M. Smith
BA (Stanford), MA (Chicago), PhD (Cambridge).
Lecturer in Typography and Graphic Communication. Specialist
in early printed book design, especially in relation to the
manuscript, and contributor to A Millennium of the
Book: Production, Design & Illumination in Manuscript
and Print 900-1900 (1994). Former editor of the
Journal of the Printing Historical Society, co-founder
of the Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, and author
of several articles on the transition from manuscript to print
as it affected book design; author of The Title-Page:
Its Early Development, 1460-1510 (2000).
G.
Hugo Tucker
MA, PhD (Cambridge). Professor of French. Author
of The Poet’s Odyssey: Joachim Du Bellay and the
‘Antiquitez de Rome’ (1990), Les Regrets
de Joachim Du Bellay (2000), Homo Viator: Itineraries
of Exile, Displacement and Writing in Renaissance Europe
(2003), and many articles on Renaissance poetry, intertextuality
and exile writing. Has written on the French and Latin
works of Arthur Rimbaud and other topics of French and neo-Latin
literature. Editor of States of Exile and Displacement
in Neo-Latin Writings of the Renaissance (1993), and
of Forms of the 'Medieval' in the 'Renaissance' (2001).
Visiting Fellow at the University of Virginia (1992), Guest
Lecturer to the Belgian inter-university group on the study
of humanism (1994), Visiting Professor at the University of
Leuven (1996), Fellow of the European Humanities Research
Centre, University of Oxford (1996- ). Associate Editor of
Humanistica Lovaniensa: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies.
Shirley
Vinall
MA (Oxon), PhD (Reading). Senior Lecturer and Head of
the Department of Italian Studies. Editor of Pirandello Studies,
co-editor of the inter-disciplinary journal The Italianist,
and of Women in Italy: Essays on Culture, Gender and History
(1991). Author of articles on Boccaccio, modern fiction, Franco-Italian
cultural relations, and the early twentieth-century avant-garde.
Andrew
Wallace-Hadrill
MA, DPhil (Oxon). Professor of Classics. Author of
articles on Roman society, culture and ideology. Interests
in late antiquity, including introduction and notes to Ammianus
Marcellinus (1986). Editor of the Journal of Roman
Studies. British Academy Readership 1994-96, and currently
on leave of absence as Director of the British School at Rome,
1994-.
Christopher
Wilson
MA DPhil (Oxon): Senior lecturer in Music. Publications include
books on early modern English music/words, music in Shakespeare,
English music theory, and articles on relationships between
music and literature (including early drama).
Margaret
Yates
BA (Reading), DPhil (Oxon). Lecturer in
History. Research, teaching and publications consciously cross
the historical divide between the medieval and early modern
periods and focus on changes in society and the economy. Interested
in English local history, especially relating to Berkshire.
Her book From Medieval to Modern. Society and economy
from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries in western
Berkshire is nearing completion.
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Research Interests of Fellows
and Associate Members of the GCMS
Keith Bate
BA, MA (Exeter). Until retirement Senior Lecturer
in Classics. Director of the Centre 1989–92. Maitre
de Conférences Associé, University of Poitiers
1988–89, Visiting Professor of Latin, University of
Poitiers 1993. Author of Gautier Map: Contes pour les
gens de cour, (1993). Editor of Three Latin Comedies
(1976), Waltharius (1978), Joseph of Exeter,
Trojan War (1986), Excidium Troie (1986). Author
of articles on medieval lyric and epic poetry, theatre and
narrative techniques, as well as the annual Medieval Latin
bibliography in The Year’s Work in Modern Language
Studies from 1968–88. Contributor to Medieval
France: an Encyclopaedia (Garland, New York) and The
Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Medieval Renaissance and Reformation
Christian Thought (Oxford).
Nicola Coldstream
BA, PhD (Courtauld). Centre lecturer in architectural
history since 1975. Lecturer, University of Sussex 1969-71,
freelance teaching since 1971. Deputy editor Macmillan Dictionary
of Art 1985-93. Editor, National Gallery Sound Guide,
1993-. Publications on English fourteenth-century architecture.
David Farmer
BLitt (Oxon), FRHistS, FSA. Until retirement Reader
in History at Reading. Author of The Oxford Dictionary
of Saints, and co-editor of the Life of St Hugh of
Lincoln. Author of many articles on hagiography and Benedictine
monasticism.
Brian Kemp
BA, PhD, DLitt (Reading), FSA, FRHistS. Professor Emeritus of Medieval
History. Author of English Church Monuments (1980),
editor of Reading Abbey Cartularies, 2 vols (1986–7),
editor of English Episcopal Acta, Salisbury, 1078-1228,
2 vols (1999-2000), editor of Twelfth-Century English
Archidiaconal Acta (2001), and author of articles on
the church in medieval England, monasteries, miracles and
the royal exchequer. He is currently working on a third volume
of Salisbury Episcopal acta, 1228-1297. Vice-President
of the Church Monuments Society; Council member of both the
Canterbury and York Society and the Pipe Roll Society.
Sean Kingsley
MA DPhil: Editor of the leading international archaeology
and history of ancient art magazine 'Minerva'. A leading
expert on maritime archaeology and specialist on the Byzantine
Holy Land and trade in Late Antiquity, Dr Kingsley has conducted
excavations and surveys of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean
and publishes extensively on Byzantine pottery.
Catherine Reynolds
BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (Courtauld). Centre lecturer
in art history. Lecturer in the History of Art at Reading
1978–87 and at Westfield, Queen Mary College, 1987–92.
Occasional lecturing whilst pursuing interests including Northern
European Art of the fourteenth–sixteenth centuries,
particularly French and Netherlandish painting and manuscript
illumination. Articles and reviews have appeared in The
Burlington Magazine, Revue de l'art etc.
Benedicta Ward
MA, DPhil (Oxon), SLG. Author of books on early monasticism
and spirituality, including Miracles and the Medieval Mind
(1982), and of articles on intellectual and theological aspects
of the middle ages.
Susan Youngs
MA FSA FSA Scot.: Formerly Curator of Early Medieval Archaeology,
The British Museum, London and Secretary of the Society of
Antiquaries of London. Fellow of Jesus College, University
of Oxford 2003-4. One of the best-known international specialists
on British and Irish metalwork of the fifth to ninth centuries
AD and editor of the acclaimed catalogue of the "The
Work of Angels" exhibition of early medieval 'Celtic'
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