Nick Robinson is a first-year MA student studying Early and High Medieval Byzantine History under Christine Shepardson and Felege-Selam Yirga. His research focuses on Byzantine Monasticism during the Early and High Medieval periods in Constantinople (Modern Istanbul) and the Greek Peninsula. In particular, he is interested in how Byzantine monastic life, tradition, education, and textual transmission shifted throughout the Early and High Medieval periods in response to wars, plagues, and human catastrophe and innovation. In this particularity also lies a deeper interest in the repercussions of these events on Byzantine nuns and women.

Research Interests: Early and High Medieval Byzantium, Monasticism, Nunneries, Women’s Education, Textual Transmission