Frances Andrews


Frances Elizabeth Andrews 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.
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