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DrHélène Sirantoine

Senior Lecturer in Medieval History

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Senior Lecturer in Medieval History
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Research projects & supervision summary

Project Opportunities

Title: Spanish medieval History

Summary of opportunity:

Hélène Sirantoine researches Spanish medieval History, with a particular focus on the kingdom of Castile and León until the 13th century. Her interests include the analysis of written productions as tools of communication and representation of ideologies that support institutions, mainly kingship and ecclesiastical powers. She joined the University of Sydney in 2014.

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

  • Political and cultural history of Christian Spain
  • History of powers and the building of their supportive ideologies
  • Imperial ideas in medieval times
  • Institutional memory and its uses
  • Written practices
  • Medieval historiography
  • Diplomatics and charters
  • Cartularies
  • Christian knowledges of Islam

 


----------Current Research Projects----------

  • The invention of Spanish cartularies (12th-13th c.
  • Comparative study of medieval imperial experimentations in the Mediterranean area and on the margins of Europe
  • The Global Middle Ages
  • Christian knowledges of Islam in the medieval Iberian Peninsula

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    ‘Le monde est un logement d'étrangers’: François Savary de Brèves (1560–1628), diplomatic agent in the early modern Mediterranean
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Alfonso X and the Classical world: Alexander the Great and ideology in Medieval Iberia
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Medieval strategic narratives and dream literature
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Rearticulating the Enemy: The Renewal of Crusading Discourse and the Reclassification of Adversaries in the Late Thirteenth-Century Latin Christendom
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Saviourhood Liberation and Unity in the Royal Image of King Henry VII
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Medievalisms of Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz and Américo Castro: the Experiences of Exile