Research interests
England and the continent during the Early and High Middle Ages
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History of the Anglo-Saxons
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Contacts between England and the continent in the Early Middle Ages
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England’s literary culture in the 12th and 13th century
History of communication in the pre-modern era
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Historiography
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Early medieval hagiography and biography in Western Europe
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Latin poetry of the Italian renaissance
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Cultural history of writing
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Fictionality and factuality
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Re-writing and re-using texts, wording and editorials
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Editorial theory
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Study of historical images and intermediality
Habitus and practices in the Middle Ages
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Heroes and saints during the Early and High Middle Ages
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Migrants and expatriates
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Literarisation of experiences of exile in the Middle Ages and humanism
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Conspirators and assassins
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Reform's losers
Ecclesiastical princes and the secular clergy
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Ecclesiastical princes in the Empire
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Bishops’ courts
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Bishop, court, dioceses and territories
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Collegiate churches
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Education, literature and art surrounding secular clerics
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Historiography of dioceses
The court and the city
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Courts and residences in the Late Middle Ages and early modern era
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Group formation at the court and in the city
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Representation and life forms of nobility and the patricians / patron saints
The Reformation
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The Reformation from the orthodox perspective
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Ecclesiastical historiography about the Reformation