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).
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| 2019 | History | The depiction of women in the historical work of Ibn Wasil | |
| 2020 | Arab and Islamic Studies | Al-Waqidi and the Early Islamic Conquests | |
| 2024 | Classics | Court Politics, Imperial Authority, and the Role of the Emperor in the Reign of Theodosius II | |
| 2021 | History | Ecclesia reformata? John Morton's Contemporaries and the Re-making of the English Church | |
| 2018 | History | Re-evaluating Norman Ethnic Identity in Europe, 911-1140 | |
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2023 |
Medieval Studies |
Performance, Rhetoric, and Restraint: The Role of Emotions in Thirteenth-Century Iberian Elite Culture |
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2022 |
Medieval Studies |
Devon's Economy During the Long Fifteenth Century: Wealth, Population and Trade |
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2023 |
Archaeology |
The Medieval Iron Industry of the Weald |
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2023 |
History |
Visualising Faith: Stained Glass Windows, Belief and the Parish in the South-West of England (c. 1400 - 1700) |
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2024 |
History |
Communing With Nature: Fairies in English Ritual Magic and Occult Philosophy, 1400-1700 |
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2024 |
Archaeology |
Contextualising and Interpreting Historic Church Graffiti in the Risbridge Hundred Suffolk |
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2019 |
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Kingship in Twelfth-Century English and German Saints’ Lives and Bishops’ Biographies |
| 2022 | Archaeology | Reconstructing the Development of the Early Medieval Church with Somerset as a Case Study | |
| 2024 | History | In Papirio: The Introduction and Acceptance of Paper in Medieval England, 1275-1400 | |
| 2024 | History | Tewkesbury Abbey: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Benedictine Medieval Monastery and its Material Culture | |
| 2020 | Archaeology | The Wandering Herd: The Medieval Cattle Economy of the South-East, c.450-1450 | |
| 2020 | History | Each According to His Manner: Latinate Chroniclers in England 1377–1422 | |
| 2021 | Modern Languages | Imagining and Enacting Education in the French of Post-Conquest England | |
| 2018 | Archaeology | The Archaeology of Castle Slighting in the Middle Ages | |
| 2019 | Archaeology | Topographical Legacies of Monasticism: Evolving Perceptions and Realities of Monastic Landscapes in the Southern Welsh Marches | |
| 2020 | Medieval Studies | Celebrating local saints in a civitas. The role of archbishops in the production of local liturgy in Trier (882- c. 1050) | |
| 2019 | History | Hernando de Baeza and the making of Catholic Spain | |
| 2022 | Archaeology | Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites in the Landscape of South-West Wales | |
| 2024 | Medieval Studies | The Education of a Noble Beast: The Breaking-in and Training of Horses in Medieval France (1250-1550) | |
| 2024 | English | John Trevisa and the Gospel of Nicodemus | |
| 2024 | Medieval Studies | Lay Religion in Late Medieval Bridgwater | |
| 2021 | History | The Trading Community of Exeter, 1470-1570 | |
| 2019 | History | Between Paris and Al-Andalus: Bishop Maurice of Burgos and His World, c. 1208-1238 |