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Amanda Power is a historian specializing in religion, power, and intellectual life during medieval Europe. She is currently involved in developing the field of global medieval history, advocating new approaches to historical study that address contemporary concerns such as the mounting climate and environmental crisis. Her monograph, 'Roger Bacon: Defence of Christendom,' offers a revisionist study of the English Franciscan Roger Bacon and his reform agenda regarding the environment. Additionally, her recent article 'Globalising Cosmologies,' co-authored with Aztec specialist Caroline Dodds Pennock, investigates how societies conceived globally during the medieval period and how these perspectives impact modern understandings of globalization. Power is actively engaged in various collaborative projects, including an AHRC-funded network aimed at defining the Global Middle Ages. She is interested in the interrelations of religion and power, as well as the construction of public rationalities in building medieval states across Eurasia. Her work also explores themes of sustainability, and she contributes to discussions on the future of the humanities in an ecologically unstable era through networks like the Oxford-based Climate Crisis Thinking in Humanities and Social Sciences.
St Catherine's College, University of Oxford • Oxford, United Kingdom
Teaching and researching subjects related to medieval history, with a focus on environmental and intellectual contexts.
Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.