Arabic script in Christian contexts in the medieval Mediterranean

Dr Clare Vernon is a specialist in the Mediterranean world in the central Middle Ages. She has a PhD from the University of Cambridge with a thesis examining the churches that were built in southeast Italy during the Norman Conquest and has taught at Birkbeck, University of London and the universities of Manchester and Southampton. Her publications focus on the art of southern Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Her book, From Byzantine to Norman Italy: Mediterranean Art and Architecture in Medieval Bari, was published in early 2023.