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SPECIALIZATIONS

Teaching Interests

  • Fourteenth-century English social, economic, political, military and cultural history

  • Medieval warfare

  • Viking and Anglo-Saxon England

  • The Black Death

  • Medieval technology and engineering

  • Medieval archaeology and material culture

  • Greco-Roman (all periods) and Medieval art and architecture

  • Literature and art as tools for historians

Research Interests

  • Fourteenth-century English social, economic, political and military history

  • Impact of war, war financing, corruption and natural disasters on the peasantry

  • Complaint and "evils of the times" literature

  • Military medicine

  • Honey in medieval England

  • The psychological effect of the Black Death

  • Cult of plague saints (especially St. Sebastian) and plague iconography and imagery

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