Charles Roe
- Position: Teaching Fellow in Medieval Latin
- Areas of expertise: Literacy in late Rome; education; social history; medieval Latin; multilingualism; material culture; textual criticism.
- Email: C.H.Roe@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 4.31a Parkinson Building
Profile
I completed my PhD at the University of Leeds, and worked at the University of Derby in 2022-3.
Research interests
My research interests are concentrated around literacy and education in the late Roman and early medieval periods.
I’m particularly interested in the way that the late Roman Empire fragmented into a series of local zones which each maintained one written language – Latin, Greek, or Aramaic – where Greek had previously functioned as a more widespread literate standard. This is a major ingredient in what is usually called the medieval world, and tends to be overlooked in historical conversations which concentrate on political change in this period. I’m interested in the impact that this change had on the way people were educated and interacted with other language communities, and its relationship with transformations in Roman government and infrastructure.
My focus is Latin but I keep this in dialogue with developments in the other major written languages which took part in this process.
I’m also interested in literacy, education, and social history more widely, the relationship between religious change and literate culture, and in editing texts preserved in medieval manuscripts.
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I provide teaching across the range of medieval history at undergraduate level, with particular attention to late Rome and the early medieval period. At postgraduate level I also offer specialised training in medieval Latin and palaeography.