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English historian
John R. L. Maddicott
Nationality British
Alma mater
Worcester College, Oxford Discipline
History Sub-discipline Institutions Main interests Political and Social History Anglo-Saxon Economy Notable works
Thomas of Lancaster, 1307-22 (1970)
Simon de Montfort (1994)
The Origins of the English Parliament, 924-1327 (2010)
John Robert Lewendon Maddicott ,
FSA ,
FBA (born 22 July 1943) is an English historian who has published works on the political and
social history of England in the 13th and 14th centuries, and has also written a number of leading articles on the Anglo-Saxon economy, his second area of interest.
Born in
Exeter ,
Devon , he was educated at
Worcester College, Oxford . He has written a biography of
Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster , and one on
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester . In
Hilary term 2004, he delivered the
Ford Lectures , the most prestigious history lectures in
Oxford University , on the topic of the genesis of the
English Parliament .
He taught at the
University of Manchester and was a fellow and tutor in history at
Exeter College, Oxford , from 1969 until 2006. An elected
Fellow of the British Academy (FBA),
[1] he was also joint editor of the
English Historical Review from 1990 to 2000.
[2] In 2001 he delivered the British Academy's Raleigh Lecture on History.
[3]
Selected publications
Thomas of Lancaster, 1307-22: A Study in the Reign of Edward II . (Oxford, 1970)
[4]
"The English Peasantry and the Demands of the Crown, 1294-1341", Past and Present . Vol Supplement No. 1 (1975)
"Trade, Industry and the Wealth of King Alfred", Past and Present . Vol 123 (1989)
JSTOR
650989
Simon de Montfort . (Cambridge, 1994);
pbk reprint
'An Infinite Multitude of Nobles': Quality, Quantity and Politics in the Pre-Reform Parliaments of Henry III , in Thirteenth Century England , vii (1999), pp. 17–46
"Power and prosperity in the Age of Bede and Beowulf" , Proceedings of the British Academy . (2002)
[3]
The Origins of the English Parliament, 924-1327 . (Oxford, 2010)
[5]
References
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"Dr John Maddicott FBA" . The British Academy . Retrieved 26 March 2021 .
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MADDICOTT, Dr John Robert Lewendon , Who's Who 2014 , A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
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a
b
"Raleigh Lectures on History" . The British Academy .
text
^ Myers, A. R. (April 1972). "Reviewed Work: Thomas of Lancaster, 1307–22 by J. R. Maddicott". The English Historical Review . 87 (343): 357–359.
doi :
10.1093/ehr/LXXXVII.CCCXLIII.357 .
JSTOR
563292 .
^
Waugh, Scott L. (2011).
"Review of The Origins of the English Parliament, 924-1327 , by J. R. Maddicott" . The English Historical Review . CXXVI (520): 636–638.
doi :
10.1093/ehr/cer083 .
ISSN
0013-8266 .
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