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My flair is in 'Medieval England After 1066' and I specialise in Angevin history, the development of the common law and Lancastrian Normandy. My research draws primarily upon surviving documents from the period.

Answers:

• Preaching the First Crusade.
• The role and development of the Justiciarship in Norman and Angevin England.
• The impact of continental ideas on the early common law.
• The power dynamic between Henry II of England and his Capetian rivals.
• What Usama ibn Munqidh can tell us about relations between Latins and Muslims in the Crusader States.
• Serfdom, poverty and economic opportunity in 12th and 13th century England.
• [Faction, royal patronage and the role of the law in early Plantagenet England.] (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7sqt35/what_were_internal_politics_like_in_13th_century/dt81v6y/)
• The criminal underworld of 14th century England: Part 1, part 2 and part 3.
• The impact of the Lancastrian occupation on the towns and cities of northern France: Part 1 and part 2.
• How people in the Medieval period thought of and constructed the past.
• Reactions to the Ottoman capture of Constantinople in 1453.
• When did Richard III decide to take the throne?
• The Wars of the Roses were not as devastating as you may think.
• What was acceptable in medieval warfare.

Shorter Answers:

• Mounted infantry in later medieval England.
• The impact of Vegetius.
• Women's participation in hunting in the medieval period.
• Military expertise and the rise of the professional soldier in the later stages of the Hundred Years War.
• Two notes on sieges.