Responsibilities

Unit Leader

• Culture and Identity in the Medieval North West (MA)
• Unit Leader of 'Medieval England’ (Level 2)
• Unit Leader 'Myths of the Medieval and Ealy Modern World' (level 1)

Contributor

• Rise of Persecuting Society (Level 1)
• 'From Pirates to Princes: the Normans and Medieval Europe' (Level 3) (Co-taught with Dr Paul Oldfield)

Postgraduate Supervision:

I am able to offer postgraduate supervision (MA, MPhil or PhD) in the following subject areas:

• Medieval Welsh History, c.1000-1500
• The Welsh March in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
• The Crusades
• Medieval England, c.1066-1300

Departmental Roles:

• Convenor: Frontiers, Nations and Civilisations Research Cluster
• Research Committee Member

Background

Brief Professional Biography

I gained my BA (Hons) at Royal Holloway, University of London and my PhD on Wales and the Crusades in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Research Interests

• Medieval Wales and the Welsh March, c.1066-1282
• Crusading and the British Isles from the eleventh to thirteenth centuries.
• Pilgrimage in Medieval Wales

Publications

Monographs

Wales and the Crusades, c.1095-1291 (University of Wales Press, Cardiff: 2011)

http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/NewsandEvents/News/Press/WalesandtheCrusades.aspx

Britain, Ireland and the Crusades, 1000-1300 (Palgrave, in preparation)

Articles

‘‘Power, Preaching and the Crusades in Pura Wallia c.1180- c.1280’, in Thirteenth Century England XI, (Boydell, 2007), 94-108.

‘Crusades and Crusading in the Welsh Cistercian Chronicles’, Trivium, Occasional Papers, No 5 (2009)

‘Counselling the Prince: Advice and Councel in thirteenth century Welsh society’,  History 34 (2009), 20-35

'The Welsh Wife of Malcolm, earl of Fife', Scottish Historical Review (October, 2009), 352-355.

'Cheshire and the Crusades'. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 59 (2011)

'The Crusades to 1291 in the Annals of Medieval Ireland', Irish Historical Studies (forthcoming)

'Pilgrimage', in Monastic Wales: New Approaches (provisional title), eds Janet Burton and Karen Stober (University of Wales Press, forthcoming)

Reviews

I have written book reviews for Intelligence and National Security (2008), H-Albion, July (2008), History (2009, 2010) and the Printing Historical Society (2009)