Bill Aird

Dr Bill Aird is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. He is Programme Director for the MSc in Medieval History and he is affiliated with the Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies. His research interests include:

• The history of the European Central Middle Ages
• Medieval ecclesiastical history, such as the role of the bishop, saints and their cults, the history of monasticism
• Representations of the Medieval ‘Other world’
• Problems and possibilities of historical biography
• Masculinities and the gendered representation of men in Medieval sources.

Bill is currently working on an edition of The Life of St Margaret of Scotland. He is also compiling a study of Charisma and medieval leadership.  His recent publications include:

• Aird, W. M. (Accepted/In press). Interpreting the king’s will: Multilingualism and the role of interpreters in eleventh- and twelfth-century England. In D. Roffe (Ed.), Approaches to History: Essays in Honour of Hirokazu Tsurushima (pp. 1-13). Kumamoto University, Kyushu, Japan.
• Aird, W. (2016). Orderic’s secular rulers and representations of personality and power in the Historia ecclesiastica. In C. Rozier, D. Roach, G. E. M. Gasper, & E. van Houts (Eds.), Orderic Vitalis: Life, Works and Interpretations (pp. 189-216). Boydell and Brewer.
• Aird, W. (2015). 'Seeing Things with our Own Eyes': E.A.Freeman's historical travels. In A. Bremner, & J. Conlin (Eds.), Making History: Edward Augustus Freeman and Victorian Cultural Politics (pp. 85-100). OUP/British Academy . https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197265871.001.0001