Gervase Rosser

Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History

Fellow and University Lecturer in the History of Art

Dr Gervase Rosser has taught extensively in the fields of medieval history and of medieval and Renaissance art and visual culture. His research and publications have been on medieval towns and city life, and on the history of guilds. He is presently completing a book on the guilds in medieval England. In addition, in collaboration with Dr Jane Garnett he is writing a study of cults of miracle-working images in Italy and the Mediterranean world, from the Middle Ages to the present day. A further research strand concerns ideas of sight in the Divine Comedy of Dante.