Professor Sarah Hamilton

Research interests

My research focuses on exploring the nature of the relationships between ecclesiastical institutions and rites and medieval society, especially in the years which divide the early from the high Middle Ages, c. 900 - 1100 AD. My interests include:

Episcopal and clerical culture
Medieval liturgy
Pastoral care
Excommunication and dispute settlement
Penance
Relations between the laity and churchmen
Clerical perceptions of the laity
Medieval heresy