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Teaching

MA:

• ‘Medieval Art and Architecture, 1066-1603: England and Beyond‘. Next taught in 2026/7.
• ‘Art & Architecture in Medieval Spain: Christian, Muslim and Jewish Entanglements, 700-1500’. Taught in 2025/6.
• ‘Gothic Encounters: Architecture and Emulation in the Middle Ages’. Last taught in 2014/15.

BA:

• ‘Power and Piety: Medieval Westminster’ (BA1)
• ‘Facsimile Debates: AI to Plato’ (BA2)
• ‘Art & Identities in Medieval Spain’ (BA3)

PhD Supervision

I welcome applications from prospective PhD students and advise you to contact me as early as possible in the application process (ideally before November, to begin the following October)

Current

• Ekaterina Yakushkina, ‘Nasrid/Mamluk connections’ (with Meredyth Winter)
• Natalia Muñoz Rojas, ‘Women, new churches, and the conquest of Granada’
• Sophia Dumoulin, ‘A Subversive History of England’s National Church: Westminster Abbey, 1399-1603’
• Ricardo Mandelbaum, ‘Ramon Lull’s Visual Culture: Intersections between Art, Architecture and Lullism in Catalonia, Paris, Montpellier and Mallorca in the late 13th and 14th centuries’

Completed

• Jane Stewart, ‘The monument to Sir James Hales (d. 1589) in Canterbury Cathedral’ (completed 2025).
• , ‘Juan Guas and Gothic Architecture in Late Medieval Spain: Collaborations, Networks, Geographies’ (2020)
• , ‘The Altar in Medieval Castile: a Social and Material History’ (2018)
• , ‘Decorative Vaults in Fourteenth-Century England’ (2016)
• , ‘The Lost Romanesque Cathedral of Tortosa (Catalonia)’ (2016)

Research interests

• The spread of Gothic architecture in medieval Europe and technologies of architectural transmission.
• Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean, especially Iberia and England.
• 19^th– and 20^th-century architectural criticism and revivalism.
• The cult of Thomas Becket.
• Church furnishings and inventories.
• Epigraphy and orality in Christian and Islamic contexts.
• The reception of Islamic art and architecture in medieval Europe.
• Architecture and light.
• Antiquarianism in Early Modern Spain and England.
• Photography, plaster casts, and technologies of reproduction in the 19th century.

Lecture recordings:

Recent publications

Books and edited books

• Gothic Architecture in Spain: Invention andÌýImitation, eds T. Nickson and N. Jennings, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Books Online, 2020.
• , ed. T. Nickson. Special issue of ³Ù³ó±ðÌýJournal of the British Archaeological AssociationÌý(2020)
• . Penn State University Press, 2015.
• ‘‘. Special issue of ³Ù³ó±ðÌýHispanic Research Journal, eds T. Nickson, M. Trusted and J. Schrader,Ìý16: 5Ìý(October 2015).
• Ìýeds T. Nickson and K. Donahue-Wallace. Special 2012 issue of ³Ù³ó±ðÌýHispanic Research Journal, with papers from a conference organised in York in July 2011.

Essays and articles

• ‘‘, inÌýMedieval Treasures of Toledo Cathedral: Artworks, Relics, Texts and Textiles, ed. T. Martin, Brill, 2026.
• ‘Art, Devotion and Society in 14th-Century Burgos: St Catherine’s Chapel Portal in the Cathedral’s Cloister’, in , ed. J. Walter, S.ÌýMüller-Bechtel, and P. Heinrich Jahn, Michael Imhof, 2025.
• ‘Durham and Islam: The Fortunes of a Theory’, inÌý, 178 (2025).
• ‘The Names of God: Art, Power, and Ritual in Medieval Córdoba’, in , ed. P. A. Patton, Penn State University Press, 2024.
• ‘‘, inÌýThe Routledge Companion to the Global Renaissance, eds S. Campbell and S. Porras, Routledge, 2024.
• ‘‘, in El mundo de las catedrales: Pasado, presente y futuro. Actas del Congreso Internacional VIII Centenario Catedral de Burgos, ed. Carlos Izquierdo Yusta et al, 2022, pp. 653-661
• ‘The Parish Church Illuminated’, inÌýTowards an Art History of the Parish Church, 1200-1399, ed. M. Bernstein, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Books Online, 2021.
• ‘‘, inÌýRevista de Poetica Medieval, 35 (2021).
• ‘Describing Architecture in Thirteenth-Century Spain’, inÌý, ed. J. Luxford, 2021
• ÌýtoÌý, ed. T. Nickson. Special issue of ³Ù³ó±ðÌýJournal of the British Archaeological AssociationÌý(2020)
• , inÌýJournal of the British Archaeological Association, 173 (2020), 78-99.
• ‘Gothic Architecture in Spain: Invention and Imitation’, introductory essay inÌýGothic Architecture in Spain: Invention and Imitation, eds T. Nickson and N. Jennings, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Books Online, 2020.
• , inÌýBeauty and Persuasion in Medieval ArtÌý(special issue ofÌýCodex Aquilarensis, 35, 2019), 139-156.
• ,ÌýOxford Bibliographies OnlineÌý(2019).
• (with Almudena Cros), ‘Constructing Pardon in Medieval Toledo’.ÌýMedieval Studies in Honour of Peter Linehan, eds F. Hernández, R. Sánchez Ameijeiras and E. Falque (2018), 493-522.
• ‘’.ÌýResounding Images: Medieval Intersections of Art, Music, and Sound, eds S. Boynton and D. ReillyÌý(2015), 91-107.
• ‘’.ÌýViewing Inscriptions in the Late Antique and Medieval World, ed. A. Eastmond (2015), 170-186.
• ‘‘,ÌýArt HistoryÌý38: 5 (2015), 838-61.
• .ÌýArt in TranslationÌý7: 1 (2015): 9-38
• ‘‘.ÌýThe Medieval History JournalÌý15, no. 2 (2012): 319–354.
• ‘‘.ÌýThe Hebrew Bible in the Fifteenth Century: Exegesis, Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts, eds J. Decter and A. Prats (2012): 41–60.
• . InÌýGestaÌý50, no. 1 (2011): 71–89.
• ÌýSpiritual Temporalities in Late-Medieval Europe, ed. M. Foster (2010): 99–126.
• .ÌýLa Catedral Primada de Toledo, ed. R. Gonzálvez (2010): 148–161.
• .ÌýImmediationsÌý2, no. 2 (2009): 19–29.
• ‘‘.ÌýZeitschrift für KunstgeschichteÌý72, no. 1 (2009): 1–14.
• ‘‘.ÌýArchitectural HistoryÌý48 (2005): 49–68

Reviews

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• , inÌýJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2021
• ÌýinÌýArtsÌý(2021)
• Rose Walker,ÌýArt in Spain and Portugal from the Romans to the Early Middle Ages. Routes and Myths, inÌý, 170, 2017, pp. 210-212.
• Paul Binski,ÌýGothic Wonder: Art, Artifice and the Decorated Style,Ìý1290-1350, inÌý, 39: 1, 2016, pp. 152-155.
• Jacqueline Jung,ÌýThe Gothic Choir Screen, inÌý, 14.1, 2014, pp. 139-141.
• Pamela Patton,ÌýArt of Estrangement. Redefining Jews in Conquest Spain, inÌý, 8.1, 2013.
• Christabel Watson,ÌýThe Romanesque Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela: A Reassessment, inÌý, 163, 2010, pp. 182-185.