The Leicester Medieval Research Centre
Past PhD projects
The work of research students at Leicester is wide-ranging, as thesis topics span the whole of the Middle Ages, from the 5th to the 15th centuries, as well as across the full range of disciplines represented within the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.
Browse our past research theses below, our see our current PhD students and their projects. Enquiries from prospective research students or postdoctoral scholars are most welcome. Contact us for more information and advice on potential supervisors.
| Name | Research |
|---|---|
| E Allan | Saffron Walden c.1440-1490: Function and context of a late medieval small town (2010) |
| C Bielmann | Society and Identity/Identities: religion, church and urbanism in Switzerland, AD300–800 |
| J Clark | Decorated Style: Architecture in Leicestershire |
| E Corradini | Leofric of Exeter and his Lotharingian Connections: a Bishop's books, c. 1050–72 (2008) |
| Z Enstone | The Representation of Morgan le Fay and Nimue in Arthurian Literature (AHRC) (2012) |
| G Farrugia | Maltese Late Roman and Byzantine Funerary Architecture: A Multidisciplinary and Holistic Approach |
| M Holmes | Food and status in the Saxon and Scandinavian burhs (2011) |
| N Jones | A chronological study of the iconographic depiction of Christ in the Middle English religious lyrics (AHRC) (2011) |
| S Kilby | Encountering the Environment: rural communities in England, 1086–1348 (ESRC) (2014) |
| J McCullough | Christianisation of Greenland |
| A Morris | Forging links with the past: 12th century perceptions of pre-Conquest Peterborough (2007) |
| E Pridgeon | The Image of St. Christopher in English Medieval Wall Painting (2010) |
| D Sami | From Theodosius to Constans II: The Settlement and Economy of Late Roman and Byzantine Sicily (AD 379–688) (2011) |
| G Speed | Towns in the Dark? Archaeologies of urbanism from late Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England |
| G Sumpter | Lady chapels in churches, c.600-1550 |
| R Swistak | Landscape Development in Central Derbyshire |
| K Taylor-Moore | Borderlands: the Buckinghamshire-Northamptonshire border from 600–1600 (AHRC) (2013) |