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Mediaeval Studies

Kriston R. Rennie is Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University of Queensland. His research interests include medieval canon law, papal legation, the Roman Church and the papacy, monastic exemption, and religious history more generally. His current research project examines how memory and heritage have come to be so closely linked in western culture, using the singular and pivotal case of the Benedictine abbey of Monte Cassino (est. 529) to analyse the historical process of remembering and its impact on modern representations of the past. Kriston was an LMS Fellow at PIMS in 2006–7; he has held various research fellowships in Germany, Belgium, the USA, Australia, and England.