i'm in the general stages of flailing around :)

um... thematically speaking, i want to look at the relationship between his theological and political thought, his ideas of social order, that sort of thing.

methodology... at Awesome's suggestion, i'm going to pick one manuscript, probably cotton nero A.i, and pick at the relationships between the texts in that. if i'm lucky i can then compare that to some broad overall study someone else has done :)