Dr. Matthew Mesley was awarded an MPhil in Medieval History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (2005), and an Arts and Humanities Research Council PhD at the University of Exeter (2005-09). In 2009 he was awarded a six-month Scouloudi Foundation Research Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, London. He is preparing his PhD thesis for publication, which is provisionally titled Depicting the Bishop: Hagiography and Religious Communities in England, c. 1070 – c. 1215.
Since a successful viva in January 2010 he has taught at the Universities of Warwick, East Anglia, University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich and New York University, London Campus. In April 2010, with Dr Louise Wilson, he co-organised a conference entitled ContextualizingDr. Matthew Mesley was awarded an MPhil in Medieval History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (2005), and an Arts and Humanities Research Council PhD at the University of Exeter (2005-09). In 2009 he was awarded a six-month Scouloudi Foundation Research Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, London. He is preparing his PhD thesis for publication, which is provisionally titled Depicting the Bishop: Hagiography and Religious Communities in England, c. 1070 – c. 1215.
Since a successful viva in January 2010 he has taught at the Universities of Warwick, East Anglia, University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich and New York University, London Campus. In April 2010, with Dr Louise Wilson, he co-organised a conference entitled Contextualizing Miracles in the Christian West, 1100-1500: New Historical Approaches, which was sponsored by the Royal Historical Society, Medium Aevum: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature, and the University of Cambridge Faculty of History Doctoral Conference Fund. A collection of essays based on the papers presented at the conference is now in preparation.
He currently is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Zurich, working on a research project directed by Prof. Dr. Almut Höfert and financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation. His section of the project is entitled Die Männlichkeit der Kirchenfürsten....more