Tom Licence

M.A. History; University of Cambridge (2002)

M.Phil. Medieval History; University of Cambridge (2003)

Ph.D. History; University of Cambridge (2006)

Tom Licence read History at Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating with a double starred first. Funded by the AHRC through his postgraduate studies, he was elected to a Research Fellowship at Magdalene in 2006, before being appointed Lecturer in Medieval History at UEA in 2009, and Professor in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a Fellow of the Higher Educational Academy. In 2022, he was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for three years, and elected Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Licence works on the period 950-1200. His chief interests are the Norman Conquest, saints' cults, and Latin literature. His output includes biography (Edward the Confessor, Yale English Monarchs, 2020, and Harold II, for the same series, forthcoming, 2026); monographs (Hermits and Recluses in English Society, Oxford University Press, 2011); Latin textual editions and translations (Miracles of St Edmund, Oxford Medieval Texts, 2014), and edited essay collections (Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest), as well as numerous articles. He regularly appears on public platforms, speaking about key characters and events of 1066.

Early Medieval England

Norman Conquest

Saints' Cults

Latin Literature

Biography

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