Recent Graduates
We're very proud of our postgraduate researchers' work, and are delighted to be able to showcase a number of our recent doctoral graduates below, whose theses range across the disciplines that make up the Centre. Clicking any one of the links below will take you to the corresponding entry in the University's scholarship repository, Open Research Exeter (ORE), where you will be able to read an abstract of their thesis (and, for non-embargoed theses, download it in its entirety).
| Student name | Year | Discipline | Thesis title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asma Alshaiban | 2019 | History | The depiction of women in the historical work of Ibn Wasil |
| Ranyh Alatawi | 2020 | Arab and Islamic Studies | Al-Waqidi and the Early Islamic Conquests |
| Henry Anderson | 2024 | Classics | Court Politics, Imperial Authority, and the Role of the Emperor in the Reign of Theodosius II |
| Des Atkinson | 2021 | History | Ecclesia reformata? John Morton's Contemporaries and the Re-making of the English Church |
| Tom Chadwick | 2018 | History | Re-evaluating Norman Ethnic Identity in Europe, 911-1140 |
| Rowena Cockett |
2023 |
Medieval Studies |
Performance, Rhetoric, and Restraint: The Role of Emotions in Thirteenth-Century Iberian Elite Culture |
| Richard Cooke |
2022 |
Medieval Studies |
Devon's Economy During the Long Fifteenth Century: Wealth, Population and Trade |
| John Cranfield |
2023 |
Archaeology |
The Medieval Iron Industry of the Weald |
| Lydia Fisher |
2023 |
History |
Visualising Faith: Stained Glass Windows, Belief and the Parish in the South-West of England (c. 1400 - 1700) |
| Samuel Gillis Hogan |
2024 |
History |
Communing With Nature: Fairies in English Ritual Magic and Occult Philosophy, 1400-1700 |
| Crystal Hollis |
2024 |
Archaeology |
Contextualising and Interpreting Historic Church Graffiti in the Risbridge Hundred Suffolk |
| Ryan Kemp |
2019 |
|
Kingship in Twelfth-Century English and German Saints’ Lives and Bishops’ Biographies |
| Carole Lomas | 2022 | Archaeology | Reconstructing the Development of the Early Medieval Church with Somerset as a Case Study |
| Jesse Lynch | 2024 | History | In Papirio: The Introduction and Acceptance of Paper in Medieval England, 1275-1400 |
| Eleanor March | 2024 | History | Tewkesbury Abbey: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Benedictine Medieval Monastery and its Material Culture |
| Andrew Margetts | 2020 | Archaeology | The Wandering Herd: The Medieval Cattle Economy of the South-East, c.450-1450 |
| Henry Marsh | 2020 | History | Each According to His Manner: Latinate Chroniclers in England 1377–1422 |
| Edward Mills | 2021 | Modern Languages | Imagining and Enacting Education in the French of Post-Conquest England |
| Richard Nevell | 2018 | Archaeology | The Archaeology of Castle Slighting in the Middle Ages |
| Eddie Procter | 2019 | Archaeology | Topographical Legacies of Monasticism: Evolving Perceptions and Realities of Monastic Landscapes in the Southern Welsh Marches |
| Lenneke van Raaij | 2020 | Medieval Studies | Celebrating local saints in a civitas. The role of archbishops in the production of local liturgy in Trier (882- c. 1050) |
| Teresa Tinsley | 2019 | History | Hernando de Baeza and the making of Catholic Spain |
| Nikki Vousden | 2022 | Archaeology | Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites in the Landscape of South-West Wales |
| Camille Vo Van Qui | 2024 | Medieval Studies | The Education of a Noble Beast: The Breaking-in and Training of Horses in Medieval France (1250-1550) |
| Philip Wallinder | 2024 | English | John Trevisa and the Gospel of Nicodemus |
| Hannah West | 2024 | Medieval Studies | Lay Religion in Late Medieval Bridgwater |
| Paul Williams | 2021 | History | The Trading Community of Exeter, 1470-1570 |
| Teresa Witcombe | 2019 | History | Between Paris and Al-Andalus: Bishop Maurice of Burgos and His World, c. 1208-1238 |