Dr Maroula Perisanidi

Profile

I finished my PhD at the University of Nottingham in 2015. Since then I've held a Teaching Fellowship at the University of Birmingham and my current position at the University of Leeds, as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. In 2018 I was also the lead academic in the Whiterose-funded project on 'Marginalisation and the Law: Medieval & Modern'.

Research interests

My first monograph, published by Routledge (2018), offers a comparative study of twelfth-century England and Byzantium on the topic of clerical abstinence from sexual intercourse, with a particular focus on canon law. My recent and current work focuses primarily on gender and sexuality, taking as a starting point the better-studied situation in the West and considering whether similar methodologies can be applied in a Byzantine context.

• Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship project 'Reform and Clerical Authority in the 11th Century: a Comparative Perspective'

Professional memberships

• Executive Committee for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies

Student education

In Leeds, I have contributed to language teaching in both Latin and Byzantine Greek, as well as run modules on comparative history of the High Middle Ages.

Research groups and institutes

• Medieval Studies