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I study the environmental and gender history of early medieval northern Europe, particularly Wales and Merovingian Gaul. I have published on North African plague and on Gregory of Tours' portrayal of a nuns' rebellion. My current projects focus on First-Pandemic plague in Britain, and disaster in Gildas’ ‘De excidio.’
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October 2021 - July 2022
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August 2022 - May 2027
October 2021 - July 2022
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Archaeological evidence from funerary contexts is largely ignored in current scholarship on the First Plague Pandemic, despite the important information that burials and cemeteries can provide about how plague might have affected societies. Skeletal (mainly dental) remains are used in the paleogenomic search for victims of plague (Yersinia pestis),...
Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=60741 Annalisa Marzano's Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome carefully balances the linguistic and material turns to produce a study of horticulture (fruit and vegetable production) in the early Roman Empire that pays equ...
The 2019 discovery of Yersinia pestis ancient DNA at Edix Hill in Cambridgeshire unquestionably confirms that plague was present in sixth-century Britain. Prior treatments of this evidence have decontextualised it from its British setting, considering it aside from the richly studied British archaeological and textual records, to detrimental effect...
Scholars of Gregory of Tours have paid little regard to the specific role of Basina in the nuns’ rebellion at Sainte‐Croix abbey in Poitiers. Their inattention mirrors Gregory’s narrative of the ‘scandal’, which presents Basina as Clotild’s more passive and reluctant sidekick, whereas the judgement of the bishops’ tribunal that tried the rebellion’...
The Black Death in the Maghreb is severely understudied. There is little scholarship on the Maghrebi experience of the second pandemic in general. That which exists bases its conclusions on Al-Andalusi and Middle Eastern sources and does not incorporate the paleoscientific data which has shed light on plague outbreaks for which there is less tradit...
This new and exclusive major reference work commissioned by Arc Humanities Press takes an inclusive approach to the history of the middle ages. It includes overviews based on specific regional areas as well as thematic overviews of key concepts within their global contexts. Case study articles provide deep dives into how these broader themes can be...
