Charles Roe
- Position: Teaching Fellow in Medieval Latin
- Areas of expertise: Late and medieval Latin; Rome and its legacy; early monasticism; textual criticism; material culture.
- 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
I'm a historian of Roman literacy and its legacy in the medieval period. I study texts with their roots in the Roman world and the material evidence for their production.
Alongside this, I am undertaking work on the textual history of John Cassian's elaborate works of ascetic guidance.
My research extends these interests beyond the political boundaries of the Roman empire: I am also in the final stages of completing a study of Geoffrey Chaucer's translations of philosophical and devotional texts from Latin. These are works in which Chaucer inherits a pose of ascetic labour from many of the Roman writers which my wider work involves - one which sits in a complex relationship with his more famous work as a poet.
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Any research projects I'm currently working on will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>Student education
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.