Sweeney, Christopher

This thesis examines the relationship between trainee teachers’ social class backgrounds and their early professional identity development in placement schools. Reasons why they seek to train in specific schools and how trainees’ social class backgrounds affect their choice of p…

Grief and the Cross: Popular Devotion and Passion Piety from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages , examines the earliest Christian devotions to the suffering Christ and lamenting Mary, referred to as Passion Piety. These devotions have traditionally been seen as a high medie…