Team project

Francesca Tinti is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of Philology and History of the University of the Basque Country.

She was awarded her first degree by the University of Bologna and her PhD by the University of Padua. Before joining EHU, she worked for several years at the Universities of Cambridge and Bologna.

Her research interests include early medieval religious, social and cultural history. She has published extensively on charters and cartularies, paying special attention to the interactions between Latin and vernaculars in the documentary practices of early medieval England and the eastern Frankish territories. More recently she has been investigating long-distance travel from early medieval Britain, drawing on a range of historical, literary and material sources.

She has directed several research projects, including The Digital Edition of the Becerro Galicano and The Languages of Early Medieval Charters.

Leticia Agúndez is Lecturer at the Historical Sciences Department, University of Cantabria, where she was awarded a PhD in Medieval History (2011).

Her main research line focuses on the social history of written cultures, with special attention to the production of cartularies, forgeries and the institutional memory of religious houses in the kingdoms of Leon, Castile and Portugal.

In 2014 she joined the University of the Basque Country as postdoctoral fellow and in 2017 she was postdoctoral fellow at the University of Porto. She has carried out research stays at the University of Sorbonne IV, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and the Centre d’études supérieures de civilisation médiévale (Potiers). She has participated in several national and international research projects, including: Élites clericales y afianzamiento territorial e institucional de la diócesis de Burgos (siglos XI al XV) (2019-2023); Scriptoria, lenguajes y espacio agrario en la alta Edad Media (2018-2021), Le pouvoir des listes au Moyen Âge (2015-2019).

She has obtained several scientific awards, including the X Premio de la Sociedad Española de Estudios Medievales. She is a member of the Buleva-Fuentes group and an international collaborator of the CITCEM-Porto.

Andrea Aparicio Lozano is a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Basque Government at the University of the Basque Country, where she also earned her doctorate in 2024 with a dissertation entitled “Agrarian Uses, Land Appropriation, and Writing in Galicia (10th and 11th Centuries),” supervised by Juan José Larrea and Lluís To Figueras.

Her research focuses on the social dynamics of land appropriation in the early medieval societies of the northwestern Iberian Peninsula, with a dual focus on writing and spatial practices, as well as their interaction with specific mechanisms of domination over the peasantry. She is currently developing a comparative project between Galicia, Wales, and Brittany.

Robert Gallagher in a Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval History at the University of Kent (UK).

He completed his degrees at the Universities of York and Cambridge, and prior to joining Kent, he held postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and UPV/EHU, the latter as part of the Languages of Early Medieval Charters (www.ehu.eus/lemc) project.

His research is focused primarily around early medieval England, its literary cultures and its international connections. He is particularly interested in understanding the social roles and values that the written word held and offered individuals within early medieval societies.

In exploring these issues, his work encompasses questions of language choice, literacy, identity, uses of the past, patronage, authorship and textual performance, while he utilises a wide range of sources, including manuscripts, poetry, liturgy and letters.

Iván García Izquierdo is ‘Profesor permanente laboral’ in Medieval History at the University of Burgos, where he earned his PhD in 2015.

His research has focused on social, territorial and institutional analyses of eastern Duero Castile, between the early tenth century and the mid-thriteenth century.

He has participated in various national research projects as well as in knowledge-transfer projects related to documentary studies, heritage valorization and the virtualization of cultural heritage, and has been responsible for several of them.

He is the author of the book Frontera, fuero y concejos. El valle del Riaza en la Edad Media; siglos VIII-XII (La Ergástula, 2019), co-editor of several volumes such as La construcción del espacio diocesano en la Europa medieval: actores, dinámicas y conflictos (Oviedo, Trea, 2023), and La configuración del espacio diocesano: el territorio y sus agentes, published in the journal Espacio, tiempo y forma. Serie III, Historia medieval, 36 (2023).

Juan José Larrea is Professor of Medieval History at the University of the Basque Country. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail.

His work focuses on two main areas of research: the social and political history of Vasconia and the kingdom of Pamplona from the end of the Empire to the first feudal age, on the one hand, and the rural history of the early medieval West on the other, with special attention to the study of the early Carolingian archives.

He has directed and still directs doctoral theses related to both fields, and has coordinated several National Plan projects as PI.

He is an associate member of the Framespa laboratory of the CNRS-Université de Toulouse-Jean Jaurès and of the Cercle de Travail sur les conditions de production du savoir médiévistique (LaMOP-CNRS) and has been a visiting researcher at the Institut für Frühmittelalterforschung of the University of Münster.

Between 2001 and 2004 he was Vice-Rector for Basque at EHU.

Guadalupe Lopetegui earned her PhD at the University of the Basque Country, where she has been ‘Profesora Titular’ of Latin Philology since 1995.

Following her doctoral dissertation (Edition and Study of the Latin Documentation of Sancho VI of Navarre), her research has focused both on linguistic and formal aspects of documentary Latin and on more strictly literary questions within the field of medieval Latin philology. Her current lines of research include the following:

1. The relationship between medieval Latin and the spoken languages from the perspective of historical sociolinguistics, through the analysis of documentation, especially from Navarre.
2. The study of theoretical and practical aspects of late antique and medieval ars rhetorica and its application in texts of various kinds.
3. Historiographical and hagiographical literature of the Carolingian period.
4. The study of various aspects of vertical communication, especially the relationship between text and image in didactic poetic texts.

Jesús Lorenzo Jiménez was awarded his PhD in History in 2008 and worked as a professional archaeologist before receiving a MEC mobility grant for the period 2009-2011, which took him to the University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). In 2012-2016 he was a Juan de la Cierva Post-Doctoral Fellow at EHU where he is currently employed as Senior Lecturer (Profesor Agregado).

His research focuses on al-Andalus, conceived as an Islamic society in which it is possible to recognize the convergence of different social and cultural patterns. In this context he has paid special attention to the study of the frontier society of the Ebro Valley in the period between the eighth and the eleventh centuries, seeing it as a place of exchange and hybridization.

From a methodological point of view, he has combined the study of written sources with that of archaeological finds, also owing to his participation in archaeological excavations carried out by different research groups (EHU, CSIC, University of Chieti) in Spain, Italy, Libya and Cyprus.

His research has appeared in c. 30 publications, including journal articles, book chapters, a monograph, and an edition of Arabic texts.

Rory Naismith is Professor of Early Medieval English History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He studied at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, and taught at King's College London before returning to his current position in Cambridge.

Rory is interested in the history of England and its neighbours in Britain and Europe between the fifth and eleventh centuries.

He has worked on a number of areas, many of them involving economic and social history. Major recent projects have examined the reign of Offa of Mercia (757-96), the making and use of money across early medieval Europe, the earliest guilds, towns and the remarkable sources for tenth- and eleventh-century history preserved at the monasteries of Ely and Ramsey.

David Peterson has a degree in History from Oxford University and a Doctorate (2006) in Medieval History from the Universidad de Burgos.

His research centres on early medieval society in northern Iberia and is based mainly on written sources and onomastics.

He is the author of two monographs on respectively, the Sierra de la Demanda (2006) and the Alto Ebro region (2009).

While based at the Universidad del País Vasco he was responsible for the development of the digital edition of the Becerro Galicano de San Millán de la Cogolla, and currently concentrates his research on medieval documentation and on the onomastic evidence for Islamic influence on early medieval Castile.

Since 2015 he has taught Medieval History at the Universidad de Burgos.

Edward Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval History at the University of Kent. He studied at the University of Manchester and gained his PhD at the University of St Andrews in 2014. After holding research positions at King's College London, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and the University of Liverpool, he joined the School of History at Kent in 2018.

Edward is a historian of Carolingian and Ottonian Europe (c.750-c.1050), with wide interests in medieval literature and law, especially historical writing, hagiography, charters and canon law.

He is the author of Flodoard of Rheims and the Writing of History in the Tenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and editor (with Robert Gallagher and Francesca Tinti) of The Languages of Early Medieval Charters: Latin, Germanic Vernaculars and the Written Word (Brill, 2021).

His current research examines bishops, mobility and the institutional growth of the church in tenth-century Europe.

Pablo Acal Maravert is Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Cantabria (UC) in the Historical Sciences Department, where his research is funded by a ‘Concepción Arenal’ scholarship.

He is working on a thesis entitled ‘Obispos, monacato y hagiografía: una aproximación comparada a la figura y funciones de los obispos/abades en la Península Ibérica e Inglaterra (siglos XI-XII)’, under the supervision of Leticia Agúndez (UC) and Francesca Tinti (EHU).

His research focuses on bishops with abbatial responsibilities from a hagiographic and historiographical perspective, bearing in mind their symbolic representation and archetypal character, as well as their ecclesiastical career and creation of power networks.

Irati Azpiazu Galarza is a PhD student at the University of the Basque Country, where her research is funded by a Basque Government grant.

Her thesis, supervised by Jesús Lorenzo Jiménez y Juan José Larrea Conde, is entitled “Fortificaciones e incastellamento en el occidente islámico: el caso de al-Andalus durante el emirato (siglos VIII-X)”. The objective of the research is to analyse and understand the characteristics and functioning of the fortifications (husun, sg. hisn) of the Emirate period in al-Andalus, in order to assess their possible relationship with the phenomenon of incastellamento.

Nagore Palomares is a PhD student in the Philology and History Department of the University of the Basque Country (EHU).

She was formerly a Research Assistant at the University of Alcalá, where she graduated in Modern Languages and Translation.

Her current research, supervised by Francesca Tinti, focuses on the interactions between Latin and vernacular languages in early medieval England and the eastern Frankish territories.

Theodora Paraskevopoulou is a PhD student in Medieval History at the University of the Basque Country (EHU).

Her research, supervised by Francesca Tinti and Eneko López, explores the influence of Greek in medieval western Europe, with special attention to Anglo-Saxon England.

Izei Permach Agirre is a PhD student at the University of the Basque Country, where her research is funded by a Basque Government grant.

Her thesis, supervised by Juan José Larrea and Ramón Díaz de Durana is entitled Sociedad medieval y ficciones de igualdad: la evolución de las sociedades de la Vasconia pirenaica y cantábrica y la construcción de mitos igualitarios (siglos XI al XV).

Her research focuses on sociopolitical developments and related systems of representation.