Supervisors
Phil Booth, Alison Salvesen
I am chiefly interested in the intellectual, political, and religious history of the Late Antique (Roman-Persian) and early Medieval (Byzantine-Islamic) worlds, especially regarding the transition from the former to the latter. The majority of my research focuses on Byzantium, the Umayyad Caliphate, and their neighbours, but I also maintain an interest in the late antique and early medieval West, having published on Augustine of Hippo. My thesis focuses on two monks who flourished during the late 7th and early 8th centuries CE - a Chalcedonian Greek-speaker named Anastasius of Sinai, based in Egypt, and a Syrian Orthodox writer named Jacob of Edessa, based in Syria.
