Luke Fletcher (Australia Institute) Confusion and Convergence: The Nazi Challenge to World Order and the US Foreign Policy Response, 1940-1941Medieval European History in the Department of History

Staff

Specialist Staff

Dr Lynette Olson
Medieval Cornwall and Brittany; Overall history of Europe in the Early Middle Ages; Christian Conversion of Europe as cultural change
Dr Julie Ann Smith
Medieval women - monasticism, saints, literature by/for women; pilgrimage

Staff with Research Interests related to Medieval European history

Books

Lynette Olson, The Early Middle Ages: The Birth of Europe (Palgrave, 2006)

Articles

Julie Ann Smith, ‘“What Now Lies Before Their Eyes”: The Foundations of Early Pilgrim Visuality’, Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, 4 (2007)
Julie Ann Smith, ‘“My Lord’s Native Land”: Mapping the Christian Holy Land’, Church History 76:1 (2007), 1-31.
Lynette Olson, 'The Absorption of Cornwall into Anglo-Saxon England', in Pamela O’Neill (ed.), Between Intrusions: Britain and Ireland between the Romans and the Normans, Sydney Series in Celtic Studies, 7, 2004, pp. 94-102.

First Year Units of Study

Senior Units of Study

HSTY2664 Communicating Culture in the Middle Ages
HSTY2665 Festival and Faith
HSTY2668 The Rise and Fall of the First Reich
ANHS2608 The World Turned Upside Down (with Dr Peter Brennan of Ancient History)

Recent Honours Theses

Claire Crawford, "The Christianisation of the Germanic law codes: 400 to 1050" (2007)
Sarah Elizabeth Young, "The Other Side of the Motte: The impact of Anglo-Norman-centrism on our understanding of the native Welsh castle" (2007)
H. Lahteela, "Unwanted Husbands and Adultery: Medieval Marriage in the Twelfth-Century Tristan and Isolde Legend" (2006)

Recently Completed PhDs

Joanna Crawford, Clothing connections : dress and social life in late medieval England, 1300-1500 (2003)
Bronwyn Ledgard, Early Celtic notions of time : reconsidering 'the Celtic year' (2007)

Current PhDs