Frances Andrews

Frances Andrews FRHistS
Nationality	British
Other names	Frances Elizabeth Andrews
Academic background
Alma mater	University of London
Thesis	The Early Humiliati (1994)
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Medieval Christian history medieval Italian history
Institutions	University of St Andrews

Frances Elizabeth Andrews FRHistS is a British historian who serves as professor of medieval history at the University of St Andrews. She is a specialist in the medieval church and its networks.

She is the managing editor of Brill's Medieval Mediterranean series and also the series editor for Boydell and Brewer's Studies in the History of Medieval Religion. She was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society (2014–2015).

Her research interests fall into two main areas: medieval Italy and medieval Christianity, with a particular focus on relations between religion and public life, the history of the friars, the Humiliati, and urban history. She is currently writing a monograph on the employment of religious in government and administration.

Selected publications

• The Early Humiliati. 1999.
• The Other Friars. 2006.
• Doubting Christianity: The Church and Doubt. 2016. (co-edited with Charlotte Methuen and Andrew Spicer)

Publications

• Como and Padua: Andrews, F. E., 22 Aug 2018, Italy and Early Medieval Europe. Papers for Chris Wickham. Balzaretti, R., Barrow, J. & Skinner, P. (eds.). Oxford University Press

• The Sack Friars and the Problems of a Comparative History of the Mendicants: Andrews, F. E., 2017, Gli studi francescani: prospettive di ricerca: Atti dell’Incontro di studio in occasione del 30° anniversario dei Seminari di formazione Assisi, 4-5 luglio 2015. Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, p. 147-185 38 p