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Middle Ages & Early Modern History
Parent category: History & Archaeology
Dr Antonio Blanco-Gonzalez
Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Archaeology
Specialist expertise:
Dr Giles Gasper
Lecturer, Department of History
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 46570
Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Specialist expertise:
- Medieval history, in particular medieval religious thought, the crusades, and church history in general
Dr Pam Graves
Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology
Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Centre for 17th-Century Studies
Specialist expertise:
- archaeological theory
- archeology of Newcastle upon Tyne
- medieval urban and religious archaeology
- medieval window glass/ stained glass
- post-medieval urban and religious archaeology
Prof Andrew Louth
Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies, Department of Theology and Religion
Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Chaplain, Chaplains
Specialist expertise:
- Byzantine art
- Byzantine history
- Eastern Orthodox theology
- Patristic and Byzantine theology
Dr Andrew R Millard
Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41147
Specialist expertise:
- analysis of bones for diet
- applications of chemistry in archaeology
- applications of chemistry to archaeology
- archaeological information from soil chemistry
- chemical analysis of bones
- dating techniques
- statistics in archaeology
Dr David Petts
Lecturer, Department of Archaeology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41166
Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Centre for Roman Cultural Studies
Mobile telephone: 07808 727953
Specialist expertise:
Prof Charlotte Roberts
Professor, Department of Archaeology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41154
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: 41154
Mobile telephone: +44 (0) 1677 450106
Specialist expertise:
- Air quality and health in past populations
- Ancient DNA analysis and its contribution to understanding infectious disease in the past
- Disease in Britain from 10,500 BC to the mid 19th century AD
- Ethical issues and the study of human remains from archaeological sites
- Infectious disease: leprosy in past populations
- Infectious disease: treponemal disease (syphilis) in past populations
- Infectious disease: tuberculosis in past populations
- Medical and surgical treatment in the past: trepanation as seen in human remains (skull surgery)
- Reconstructing activity/occupation in the past using skeletal remans
- The study of human remains from archaeological sites, and particularly the evidence for disease
Prof Alec Ryrie
Head of Department, Department of Theology and Religion
Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Centre for 17th-Century Studies
Specialist expertise:
- History of the Reformation
- History of Tudor England
- Reign of Henry VIII
Dr Colin Turner
Reader in Islamic Thought, School of Government and International Affairs
Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Centre for the History of Political Thought
Specialist expertise:
- Muslim cultures, religion and political thought.
Dr Steven Willis
Department of Archaeology
Specialist expertise:
- Africa generally
- African History- particularly East Africa and the Sudan
- African pre-modern history
- history and politics - East Africa and the Sudan