I publish widely on the art and architecture of medieval Spain.

The richness of Iberian medieval art has enabled me to study a wide range of material, from manuscripts and sculpture to buildings and archaeological sites. All this is enlivened by the presence of luxury arts, in metalwork, ivory, and silk.

I am an Honorary Research Fellow at The Courtauld; from 2018 to 2021 I held a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship.

New book

Art and Artifice in Twelfth-Century Iberia (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge and Rochester (NY), 2025)

“This innovative, wide-ranging, and erudite book illuminates the sophistication of artistic exchange at this time and place. Subverting the conventional concept of an “art of the pilgrimage roads”, it offers a revelatory analysis of what was in effect a forced artistic mobility, driven by the impact of the friendship networks between cunning and inventive patrons.” 
—Costanza Beltrami, Stockholm University.

Articles

“Narratives of Hagiographic Imagination and the Camino”, in Imagining the Road to Santiago: Itineraries, Narratives, Myths, eds. Robert A. Maxwell and Manuel A. Castiñeiras González, Ad Limina (16/1, 2025) 153–69.

“Order and disorder through the eyes of scribes and illuminators in the kingdom of Pamplona c. 970–c. 1000”, in Romanesque and the Year 1000, eds. Gerhard Lutz, John McNeill and Richard Plant (Abingdon and New York, 2025) 85–104.

“Reimagining relics and reliquaries between al-Andalus and the Northern Kingdoms in the eleventh and twelfth centuries”, in The Visual Culture of al-Andalus in the Christian Kingdoms of Iberia, ed. Inés Monteira (New York and London, 2025) 27–43. 

Forthcoming publications

“Sculpture and Visual Arts”, in Companion to Visigothic Iberia, eds. Jamie Wood, Molly Lester, Damian Fernández (Brill)

“Old Testament narratives and inter-confessional disputation in mid-twelfth century Navarre and Aragón”, in Image and Narrative in Romanesque Art, eds. Grazia Fachechi, John McNeill, Richard Plant (British Archaeological Association)

“Refreshing reform in Benedictine monastic precincts in mid-12th century León-Castile”, in Fernando Gutiérrez Baños, Richard Plant, Rose Walker (British Archaeological Association)

Recent seminar and conference papers

“Canonising the early friendship circle”, Ibersaints. Making and Remaking Saints in the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period c. 600–1600, Salamanca, March 2025

“Atlas and Nemroth: personifications of expertise and knowledge”, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2025

“The aftermath of liturgical reform in mid-twelfth-century Iberia”, History of Liturgy seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, 27 October 2025

“Networks and Eclectic art in mid-twelfth-century Iberia”, Permance et continuité dans l’art du Moyen Âge. Journées d’étude, Paris and Lille, 24–25 November, 2025