Frances Elizabeth Andrews is a British

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

who is professor of medieval history at the

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. She is a specialist in the medieval church and its networks.

Life

Andrews is the managing editor of Brill's Medieval Mediterranean series and also the series editor for

Boydell and Brewer Boydell & Brewer is an academic press based in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, that specializes in publishing historical and critical works. In addition to British and general history, the company publishes three series devoted to studies, edition ...

Studies in the History of Medieval Religion Studies in the History of Medieval Religion is a history book series published by Boydell & Brewer on the history of medieval religion. The series editor is Frances Andrews of St Andrews University. As of November 2016 there were 44 volumes in p ...

. She was President of the

Ecclesiastical History Society The Ecclesiastical History Society (EHS) is a British learned historical society founded in 1961 to foster interest in, and to advance the study of, all areas of the history of the Christian Church through twice yearly conferences and publication ...

(2014–2015). Her research interests fall into two main areas:

medieval Italy The history of Italy in the Middle Ages can be roughly defined as the time between the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance. The term "Middle Ages" itself ultimately derives from the description of the period of "obscu ...

and

medieval Christianity Christianity in the Middle Ages covers the history of Christianity from the fall of the Western Roman Empire (). The end of the period is variously defined. Depending on the context, events such as the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman ...

, with a particular focus on relations between religion and public life, the history of the

friar A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders founded in the twelfth or thirteenth century; the term distinguishes the mendicants' itinerant apostolic character, exercised broadly under the jurisdiction of a superior general, from the ol ...

s, the Humiliati, and urban history. She is currently writing a monograph on the employment of religious in government and administration. Beginning in 2019, she led a small team of historians under the aegis of the Royal Historical Society in a new investigation into on the experience of LGBT+ historians and on the teaching of LGBT+ histories in UK universities. She coordinates the 'Women Historians of St Andrews' project, which aims to seek out the women who studied, researched and taught history at St Andrews, at any point in time.

Selected publications

*''The Early Humiliati''. 1999. *''The Other Friars''. 2006. *''Doubting Christianity: The Church and Doubt''. 2016. (co-edited with Charlotte Methuen and Andrew Spicer)

Publications

* Como and Padua: Andrews, F. E., 22 Aug 2018, ''Italy and Early Medieval Europe. Papers for Chris Wickham.'' Balzaretti, R., Barrow, J. & Skinner, P. (eds.). Oxford University Press * The Sack Friars and the Problems of a Comparative History of the Mendicants: Andrews, F. E., 2017, ''Gli studi francescani: prospettive di ricerca: Atti dell’Incontro di studio in occasione del 30° anniversario dei Seminari di formazione Assisi, 4-5 luglio 2015.'' Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, p. 147-185 38 p

References

21st-century British historians Academics of the University of St Andrews Alumni of the University of London British medievalists British women historians Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Historians of Italy Living people Presidents of the Ecclesiastical History Society Social historians Urban historians Women medievalists Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-historian-stub