Staff
The Director of the Centre is Dr Catherine Richardson
Staff affiliated with the centre:
Dr Mark Bateson (Canterbury Cathedral Archives): Palaeography and manuscript study; thirteenth- and fourteenth- Century ecclesiastical, administrative and political history; archive study.
Paul Bennett (Canterbury Archaeological Trust): archaeology of Canterbury and its hinterland.
Dr David Blair (English) interests are divided between the Early Modern and Romantic periods. In the former I have published on Donne and Shakespeare, and want to return to Shakespeare to do more work, specifically on the way in which language in the plays maps various sorts of desire and the frustration of desire. Interested in the relationship between the representation of regionality and regional travel in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and the different practices of cartographers
Dr Barbara Bombi (History): Ecclesiastical and religious history, 1200-1400; canon law and history of the Medieval papacy; crusades and history of the Military Orders; Anglo-papal relations in the fourteenth century; Latin diplomatic and palaeography.
Dr Alixe Bovey (History): Gothic and early Renaissance visual culture. Author of Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts (2002), The Chaworth Roll: a fourteenth-century genealogy of the Kings of England (2005); and The Tacuinum Sanitatis: an early Renaissance Guide to Health (2005)
Professor Peter Brown (English): Chaucer and other late-medieval English writers; aspects of medieval culture, including historiography, the visual arts, dreams, and space. Author of Chaucer at Work (Longman, 1994), and editor of the third edition of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, vol. 1: 600-1500.
Dr Rosanna Cox (English): Political thought, culture and literature in the mid-to-late 17th century; John Milton; early modern statecraft and diplomacy; gender, politics and reading; education and the English universities from the mid-16th century
Professor Kenneth Fincham (History): English political and religious history in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; early modern English architecture. Publications include Prelate as Pastor: The Episcopate of James I (Clarendon Press, 1990), and The Early Stuart Church 1603-1642 (Macmillan, 1993).
Dr Darryll Grantley (Drama): medieval cycle drama and its contexts of production; education and drama in the Tudor period; the sixteenth-century interlude; early modern drama and social change; Marlowe. Co-edited, with Peter Roberts, Christopher Marlowe and English Renaissance Culture (Scolar, 1996), and contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Dr Helen Gittos (History): Anglo-Saxon England, especially the tenth and eleventh centuries; the earlier medieval European Church, especially its liturgy and architecture; the status and uses of medieval vernacular languages; Anglo-Norman liturgy and architecture and the impact of the Conquest on these topics. Author of Sacred Space in Anglo-Saxon England (forthcoming); Co-editor of The Liturgy of the Late Anglo-Saxon Church (2005).
Dr Sarah James (English): Late medieval vernacular theological writings in their historical, religious and political contexts; the pastoral care tradition; interactions between medieval literature and visual culture; dreams and visions; late medieval drama.
Dr Luke Lavan (Classical and Archaeological Studies): Everyday use of space in the late antique and early medieval city (AD 300-700) drawing on archaeological, textual and epigraphic evidence from across the Roman Empire.
Dr Marion O'Connor (English): theatrical reconstructions and dramatic revivals (especially twentieth-century productions and adaptations of Tudor drama); iconography (especially maps and moral emblems); drama as historiography; censorship. An editor of Theatre Notebook, she has recently edited The Witch for the Oxford University Press Collected Works of Thomas Middleton.
Dr David Ormrod (History) Specialises in early modern economic and social history, focusing on overseas trade, the economy of Kent and the south-east, and relations with the Low Countries. Recent publications include The Rise of Commercial Empires. England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism (Cambridge, 2003) and Art Markets in Europe, 1400-1800, Aldershot, 1998 (edited with Michael North). He is currently completing a book on the Origins of the London Art Market, 1600-1800.
Dr David Potter (History) Interests are early modern France; the state and local society in the 15th and 16th centuries; the impact of war; the French aristocracy in the 16th century; and Renaissance diplomacy. He has published articles on French politics, diplomacy and the nobility in the 16th century in many learned journals. His most recent publications are War and Government in the French Provinces: Picardy 1470-1560 (1993), and A History of France, 1460-1560 (1995).
Dr Catherine Richardson (English) Interdisciplinary research on early modern material culture both on and off stage. She has edited a collection of essays on Clothing Culture 1350 - 1650 (Ashgate 2004) and is editing another on Everyday Objects: medieval and early modern material culture and its meanings. A significant area of interest has been the domestic dynamics of early modern plays, on which she has published Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy: the material life of the household, MUP, 2006. Her current project is a study of the discourses of non-elite clothing in early modern England.
Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh (English) : English social history, especially from the Black Death to the Reformation; medieval hospitals; piety and charity; the parish community; urban society and civic ritual; the medieval peasantry; linking history and archaeology. Publications include The Role of the Hospital in Medieval England: Gift-giving and the Spiritual Econony (2004).
Dr Ben Thomas (History and Philosophy of Art): Italian Renaissance art; Renaissance writing on the visual arts; sixteenth and seventeenth-century prints