Stephen Church

King John; The Angevins and their lands; Robin Hood; The Normans; rulership 600-1300; Magna Carta; Henry III

I teach medieval history focusing on English history and the history of western Frankia from the eleventh century through to the fourteenth century.

I joined the School of History in 1995 after completing undergraduate and postgraduate work in London. Between leaving school and becoming an academic historian, I was a bank clerk, a buyer of cardboard boxes and plastic bottles, a labourer, and a housing liaison officer for Camden Council. I am currently director of the Battle conference for Anglo-Norman Studies and edit the annual publication, Anglo-Norman Studies. I am also an associate editor of the journal History. 

My research is primarily focused on the period 1000 to 1300, concentrating on issues surrounding rulership and the exercise of power. My main publications have been in this area, though, like all medievalists, this focus does not provide the only outlet for my research interests. I have published on subjects as diverse as Anglo-Saxon paganism, twelfth-century administrative records, fourteenth-century landholding, and on the preservation of sepulchral monuments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.