Current Students

Student name Thesis title
Naomi Allen

From Denization to Dissolution: Changing monastic identity and religious culture within English Cluniac houses from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries

Coline Blaizeau

The Metafictive Marvellous in the Roman de Perceforest

Verity Bruce

Saints and Sinners: Agender Constructs of Saints and Demons in the Later Middle Ages

Paul Carley-Annear

Chapelries in Cornwall and Herefordshire: Late Medieval Parochialisation and the Reformation c.1300 - c.1600

Wendy Clarke

Strangers in a Strange Land: Landscape, Lifecourse and Lordship at the Neighbouring Dependent Priories of Barnstaple (Cluniac) and Pilton (Benedictine)

Zoe Cunningham

The Perception and Treatment of Custom in the Laws of Late Medieval Europe

Henry Doss

Piers Plowman, Poverty, the Church, and the Emergence of a Rhetoric of Protocapitalism

Gearoid Fitzgerald

A Unique Vision? How was Gregory the Great’s vision of authority and leadership novel?

Sandy Gale Prayer in Late Medieval Sermons
Anne Gwatkin

'Sacred Space, Common Ground’. The Benedictine Material Patronage of Parish Churches: a Case Study of Dorset

Aymeric Lamy

Constructing Authority: Rhetoric in the Formation and Regulation of Local Pre-Conquest English Communities, c.900-1100

Tess LaValley

The textual transmission of charms containing saints in late medieval England

Dan Leigh

Medieval Medicine, Magic, and Theology

Marilyn Mannino Villains in Middle English and Old French Arthuriana
Joe Neal

Cistercian Abbeys in the Southwest

Dickon Perryman

Coinage and Minting and Exeter and the South West in the Later Anglo-Saxon Period

Clementine Pursey

The French Tongue and the English Body: On the construction of female identity through an acquired language, c. 1150-1350

Jack Sudds

Managing Britain’s Largest Wild Herbivores

Harriet Tait

Lordship and Religion in Late-Medieval South-East England

Jessica Vining

The Cistercians at Buckland Abbey

The list of current doctoral students at the Centre (below) certainly isn't comprehensive, but is designed to give a sense of the scope of expertise and research interests among our many PhD candidates. For more information about postgraduate research at the Centre, see our dedicated page.