Dan Armstrong is a Teaching Fellow in Medieval History at UCD. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher in the School of History, where he was funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Dan’s work focuses on papal relations with the periphery of Europe, especially the British-Irish Isles.
Before joining UCD, Dan was a Mellon Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto), a Royal Historical Society Centenary Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research (London), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Dan has published articles in the Haskins Society Journal and Anglo-Norman Studies, as well as edited a book on 'Borders and the Norman World: Frontiers and Boundaries in Medieval Europe', which was published in December 2023 by The Boydell Press. He has discussed his work on podcasts produced by the BBC and History Hit. At present, he is working on a monograph provisionally entitled: The Papacy and the Anglo-Norman Kingdom of England, c.1066-c.1135: Communicating with ‘Another World’.
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