Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture (CMRC)

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Professor Alice Hunt

Professor

Research interests

  • early modern monarchy
  • ritual and ceremony
  • queenship
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Professor Alison Gascoigne

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Archaeology of the Islamic world
  • Archaeological ceramics
  • Medieval Egyptian urbanism

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Andrew Pinnock

Professor

Research interests

  • Arts management and cultural policy; cultural economics
  • Seventeenth-century English opera
  • Aspects of organology, especially the early twentieth-century English recorder revival.
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Dr Andy King

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Anglo-Scottish relations in the late Middle Ages
  • The conduct of late-medieval warfare, and the rules that govern it
  • Chivalry, political culture and attitudes to treason

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Emeritus Professor Anne Curry

Research interests

  • The Hundred Years War
  • The reign of Henry V
  • The battle of Agincourt 1415

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Callan Davies

Lecturer in 17th Century Lit and Culture

Research interests

  • The history of play, playhouses, and commercial entertainment spaces
  • Early modern drama and performance
  • Social status and creativity in early modern England

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Emeritus Professor Christopher Woolgar FBA

Research interests

  • Daily life in the later middle ages
  • Material culture
  • Testamentary records in the later middle ages
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Professor Craig Lambert

Professor

Research interests

  • Late medieval naval operations and logistics
  • Medieval and Tudor maritime communities
  • Late medieval and Tudor merchant shipping

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Gary Baker

Senior Research Fellow
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