Graham started following the work of Lucy Cogan, University College Dublin, English, Drama and Film.
Graham started following the work of Craig Taylor, University of York, History.
Graham started following the work of Jaclyn Rajsic, University of Oxford, English Language and Literature.
Alumnus, History
Fitzwilliam College
Thesis Title: "The religiosity of English men-at-arms in the Fourteenth Century"
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Dr. Carl Watkins
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About
My research focuses on the important relationship between military service and religious devotion of English men-at-arms during the Hundred Years War. I examine the ways in which men-at-arms prepared themselves spiritually for foreign campaigning and what effect this prolonged period of warfare had on the church in England.
Along with examining the spiritual preparations men made for war, my work also focuses upon the ways in which they went about making amends for their sins through charitable donations to religious institutions and how war and the need for salvation were reconciled.
The examination of warfare and religion – perhaps the two most important factors affecting late medieval society – has remained relatively compartmentalised. Even with the frequent separation of the two by academics, my research has revealed how religion and the battlefield need to be examined in conjunction with one another.
