About
Associate Professor John Pryor-
Professor Pryor's interests have developed over the years, although they have always been focussed on the history of the Mediterranean region in the Middle Ages. Inititially they were concerned with economic history and in particular with trade and commerce.
Medieval Studies
Summary
Medieval Studies is an interdisciplinary programme of study administered by the Centre for Medieval Studies. The Centre brings together a significant array of academic talent from a range of disciplines working on medieval-related subjects.
Supervisor(s)
Associate Professor John Pryor
Research Location
Centre for Medieval Studies, Faculty of Arts
Program Type
Synopsis
Academic staff have expertise in a broad range of areas, including medieval history and archaeology, religion and myth, music, art and sculpture, languages and literatures. Discipline areas include: Arabic, Art History, Byzantine Studies, English, French, German, History, Islamic Studies, Italian, Jewish Studies, Medieval Latin, Music, and Religious Studies. Academic staff have been remarkably successful in obtaining research grants. Over 16 Members of the Centre have held research grants of one kind or another, some more than once, in the period 1997-2007. They have also published prolifically, producing over 50 books in the same period. The Centre also has its own publications series, Making the Middle Ages, which to date has published eight volumes. It currently has two postgraduate students and two postdoctoral research fellows who are conducting significant projects on Medieval Cosmology and on Medieval Latin Literature.
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Keywords
Medieval myth, Medieval music, Medieval art, Medieval languages and literature, Medieval history, Medieval religious studies, Medieval Icelandic literature; Medieval Christianity, Medieval Latin, Byzantine studies, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old French, Old Irish, Middle Welsh, Old & Middle English.
Opportunity ID
The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is: 477