CONTACT INFORMATION:
Honorary Research Fellow
Department of History
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield S10 2TN UK
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SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Anglo-Norman Studies
France in the Twelfth century
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Power and border lordship in medieval France: the county of the Perche (Royal Historical Society 2002)
"Matilda, countess of the Perche (1171-1210): the expression of authority in name, style and seal" Tabularia: sources écrites de la Normandie médiévale http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/crahm/revue/tabularia
"Affairs of state: the illegitimate children of Henry I", Journal of Medieval History, 29 (2003), 129-51.
"L'aristocratie normande et 1204", La Normandie et l'Angleterre au Moyen Âge: colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle (4-7 octobre 2001), éd. Pierre Bouet et Véronique Gazeau (Caen: CRAHM, 2003), 179-87.
"Sept textes pour une fondation: les premiers temps de Saint-Denis de Nogent-le-Rotrou et leurs réécritures", Bibliothèque de École de Chartes, 160 (2002), 641-66.
"Lords, castellans, constables and dowagers: the Rape of Pevensey from the eleventh to the thirteenth century", Sussex Archaeological Collections, 135 (1997), 209-20.
"Dowry and inheritance patterns: some examples from the descendants of King Henry I of England", Medieval Prosopography, 17 (2) 1996, 45-61.
"The lords of Laigle: ambition and insecurity on the borders of Normandy", Anglo-Norman Studies: Proceedings of the Battle Conference (Woodbridge, 1996), 177-199.
New Dictionary of National Biography (forthcoming)
* Robert of Bellême
* Richer of Laigle
* Arnulf of Montgommery
* Dunstanville family
* Robert Curthose
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
History of the Medieval Book:
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
All use chronicles, but are not devoted to chronicles qua source.
Other Possible Themes:
Literacy and Oral Culture
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
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MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
I am an Honorary Research Fellow at the university of Sheffield and no longer teach with them.
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