Dr William Aird
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 76673
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74929
Extension:76673
Location:Humanities Building 3.60
Research Interests
- Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries
- The Normans in Medieval Europe and Britain and Ireland
- The history of Anglo-Scottish frontier to c.1200
- Medieval Masculinities
- Medieval saints and their cults
- British and American nineteenth-century medieval historiography
Selected Publications
William M. Aird (forthcoming) Robert ‘Curthose’, Duke of Normandy. The Boydell Press.
William M. Aird (2006) Edward A. Freeman and “The English People in its Three Homes”. Haskins Society Journal. Studies in Medieval History, 15 for 2004, 40-54. The Boydell Press.
William M. Aird (1999) ‘Frustrated Masculinity: The Relationship between William the Conqueror and his Eldest Son’. Women and Men in History, pp. 39-55 in Masculinity in Medieval Europe. Longman.
William M. Aird (1998) St Cuthbert and the Normans: The Church of Durham, 1071-1153. Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, xvi + 328. Boydell & Brewer.
Research Project
The Life of Saint Margaret by Turgot, Prior of Durham.
Research Group
Centre for the Study of Medieval Culture and Society
Teaching
Part One Undergraduate Modules
- Medieval Europe - 20 credits (HS1101)
Students in my seminar groups will study The Poem of the Cid during the first semester.
Part Two Undergraduate Modules
- The Normans in Europe, c.900-1150 - 30 credits (HS1717)
- Dissertation - 30 credits (HS1801)
- William the Conqueror, 1035-1087 - 30 credits (HS1812)
Postgraduate Modules offered for the MA in Medieval British Studies
- Sources and Approaches to the history of Medieval Britain (HST911)
- The Anglo-Norman Regnum, 1066-1135 (HST921)
- The First English Empire? Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the Kingdom of England, c.1100‑1300 (HST924)