MA dissertation titles
Classical / Byzantine / Medieval
2009-10
- Episcopal Sanctity at Thirteenth-century Anagni: a Study of Four Episcopal Vestments
- The Function and Iconography of the Minstrels’ Gallery of Exeter Cathedral
- The Architecture of St Leonard’s Church, Hythe, and its Context
- The Nave at Lichfield Cathedral
- The Old Town Bridge Tower: a Model of Kingship on the Coronation Processional Route
- St Winefride’s Well: Patronage and Stylistic Affinity
- Fra Vernaccio and Fra Melano: the Cistercian Masters of Siena Duomo 1258-1264
- Khirbat al-Mafjar: an Imperial Palace of Al-Walid II
- Esztergom Staurotheke: Expression, Engagement and Memory in Twelfth-century Byzantium
- Gothic Church Patronage in Rome between 460 and 526: an Evaluation of Sant’Agata dei Goti, Sant’Andrea cata Barbara and SS. Cosma e Damiano
- Creating Royal Legacy: a new Look at the Hungarian Coronation Mantle
- The Last Judgement at Yĭlanlĭ Kilise in Cappadocia: the Formulation of an Iconography
- The Court of the Heavens: a Visual and Textual Interpretation of the Planets Sloane MS 3983
- The Namur Apocalypse: MS 77 in the Bibliothèque du Grand Séminaire de Namur
- The First Deposition in English Manuscript Illumination: Context and Impact
- The St John Window at Chartres: a Typological Armature System with a Narrative Subject
- The Virgin and the Dragon: the Iconography and Function of Three Saint Margaret Ivory Figures and the Development of her Cult in Late Medieval France
- ‘Fidelity of Representation’: Reproducing Ancient Sculpture in Late Eighteenth-century Britain
- Adoption, Adaption and Experimentation: Nonsense Inscriptions on Attic Vases
2008-09
- Bodily Absence and Divine Presence: an examination of text, Image, and Relic in the Context of an Eleventh-Century Reliquary of Saint Demetrios
- The Reciprocal Nature of Pilgrims and Paintings in the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem
- Framing Hesychasm and Art: an Interpretation of a Mid Fourteenth-Century Byzantine Icon from Thessalonike
- A Reassessment of the Esztergom Staurotheke
- The Painted Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo: an Exploration of their Pictorial Images within the Context and Culture of the Court of Twelfth-Century Norman Sicily
- Micromosaic Icons: their Significance and Place in the Byzantine Artistic Practice of the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries
- Marginal Meaning: Visual and Textual Relationships in the Macclesfield Psalter in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
- A Spiritual Meaning and Impact of Medical Illustrations in Late Medieval Europe
- Images of Eloquence: the Fall of Adam and Eve in the Medieval Manuscript
- A Close Look at Images of Louis IX/Saint Louis: Determining Iconography, Meaning and Purpose in Representations of Louis including those made during his Reign and After
- Reading the Preux and Preuses Cycle in Manta in Context
- Bleeding Pages, Bleeding Bodies: a Gendered Reading of British Library MS Egerton 1821
- Picturing Power: a Study of Influence and Patronage in BL Lansdowne 420
- Prostitute or Parthenos? The Female bather in Athenian Vase Painting
- Third Century Roman Portrait Sculpture 253 to 305 AD
- A Study of the Jewellery Depicted in the Fayum Portraits
2007-08
- Visual Campaigns for Canonisation: a Fifteenth-century Fresco Cycle for a Thirteenth-century Saint, Rosa of Viterbo
- A Civic Commission?: the Provenance of Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Maestà at Massa Maríttima Reconsidered
- ‘The Lamentation of the Clares’ in the Basilica of San Francesco at Assisi: Unveiling Meanings in a Forgotten Masterpiece
- A Clarrisan Compendium: an Analysis of a Thirteenth-Century Diptych in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
- Teobaldo Pontano and the Magdalene Chapel in the Lower Church of San Francesco at Assisi: Interpreting the Locations of Two Patron Portraits
- ‘Pleasing to God and Salvific to Men’: Indulgences, Saints and Church- Building in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century England
- Claustrium et Capitulum at Salisbury Cathedral: a Re-assessment
- The East Window of St Mary’s Parish Church, Selling, Kent: a Royal Window in the Shadow of Canterbury
- Revisiting St Alban’s: the East End of the Abbey Church
- The Nuremberg Frauenkirche
- ‘On Account of the Love We Bear the Order’: King Henry III and the Politics of Burial at the New Temple Church in London
- The Artistic Patronage of Bishop Nicholas West 1515-1533
- The Influence of Westminster Abbey and the Experimentation in English Façade Design c. 1240-1280
- A Palaeologan Icon with Scenes of the Passion: a Thessalonian Response to Fourteenth-Century Art and Monasticism
- The Circulation of Ornamental Vocabulary in Bagratid Armenia as a Question of Political Identity
- The Presence of the King: the Porphyry Tombs of Roger II and the Construction of Power
- The Amenaprkitch Khatchkar: a Symbol of Armenian Identity
- The Value and Importance of the Constantinopolitan Hodegetria
- Art as Diplomatic Tool in the Middle Byzantine Period 1000-1150
- Art and Text on Byzantine Icons: a Question of Labelling
- Performance of Memorial: the Funerary Slab of Nun Maria Palaiologina
- Spontaneous Art: Pompeian Erotic Graffiti in Context
- Trojan War Imagery in Pompeian Domestic Wall Painting
- The Baptistery of S. Giovanni in Fonte in Naples: Understanding the Development of Christian Iconography through Visual Exegesis
- Another Dionysus?: The Iconography of Dionysus in Late Antique Egyptian Textiles
