CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor of Medieval Italian History
Department of History
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
| Office Telephone: | (0113) 3433601 |
| Office Fax: | (0113) 2342759 |
| Active email: | G.A.Loud@leeds.ac.uk |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/staff/loud.htm |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/weblearning/Medieval |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Southern Italy 10th-13th Centuries, especially during the Norman period, c. 1050-1200.
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
The History of the Tyrants of Sicily by 'Hugo Falcandus', 1154-69 [with Thomas Wiedemann](Manchester U.P. 1998)
Conquerors and Churchmen in Norman Italy (Variorum 1999)
Montecassino and Benevento in the Middle Ages (Variorum 2000)
The Age of Robert Guiscard. Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest (Longmans 2000)
The Society of Norman Italy [edited, with Alex Metcalfe] (Brill 2002)
The History of the Normans by Amatus of Montecassino [with Prescott Dunbar] (Boydell & Brewer 2004), forthcoming.
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Some interest, given society of Norman Italy and Sicily.
History of the Medieval Book:
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Key theme of my research & teaching (see publications above)
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Paul Oldfield, Towns in southern Italy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Nicky Tsougarakis, Latin Monasticism in Greece in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (joint supervision with Prof. Peter Lock, College of York St. John).
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in staff exchanges with WUN partner institutions, and in developing online research resources (See my sections of Leeds History Website).
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
MA module: The Crusader States 1099-1187.
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