CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor of History
Department of History
King Alfred’s College
Winchester S022 4NR UK
| Office Telephone: | 01962-827338 |
| Office Fax: | 01962-827604 |
| Active email: | Michael.Hicks@wkac.ac.uk |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.wkac.ac.uk/history/Hicks.htm |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Late Medieval English politics, aristocratic society, mentality, religion, monasticism
Wars of the Roses and Yorkist England
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Bastard Feudalism (Longman, 1995)
Warwick the Kingmaker (Blackwell, 1998)
Richard III (Tempus, 2000)
English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century (Routledge, 2002)
Edward V: The Prince in the Tower (Tempus, 2003)
Edward IV: For and Against (Hodder Arnold, forthcoming)
Please see URL above for additional publications.
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Only insofar as I am interested in the sources of information or foreign chroniclers on English affairs and the transmission of religious knowledge to English only audiences.
History of the Medieval Book:
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
My research is related to this theme. For example, I am broadly interested:
(a) in sources, narrative and otherwise;
(b) in the appraisal of major narratives such as Macini’s Usurpation of Richard III and the Crowland Chronicle Continuations. (I included a substantial re-appraisal of Mancini in my Richard III and of the Second Anonymous Ctowland Continuation in my Edward IV; I have two other papers in draft on Crowland).
(c ) in monastic chronicles about life in monasteries
(d) in the very numerous family chronicles as sources for late medieval aristocratic culture. (This is my major long term project on which I have already collected much information for what I envisage will become a book on English Provincial Mentalities).
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Rebecca Oates: Prosopography of the Scholars of Winchester College
Simon Phillips: The Prior of St John in Late Medieval England
Simon Roffey: Archaeology of Late MedievalChantries
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in staff exchanges with WUN partner institutions, and in conducting a videoconferencing seminar or course.
We do have staff exchanges with a number of institutions (eg USM, Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Southern Oregon) that do not offer medieval history.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
MAs in Regional and Local History and Archaeology Social History
The modules that I regularly offer are The Late Medieval Church in Wessex, the Late Medieval Aristocracy, Medieval Palaeography.
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