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The Simon de
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This page contains brief biographies of our patrons, with whom the Simon de Montfort Society
is proud to be associated.
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Dr David
Cox BA PhD (London)
FSA FRHistS
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Professor in Medieval History
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David Carpenter is a leading authority on the history of
Britain in the central middle ages.
He was educated at Westminster School and
Christ Church, Oxford. He has a first class degree in History and a doctorate
from Oxford University.
Prior to coming to King's College he held lectureships
at Christ Church and St.
Hilda's College Oxford, at the University of Aberdeen and at Queen Mary College,
London. Much of David Carpenter's research and writing has been about English
history in the thirteenth century where he ranged widely through social,
economic, architectural, military and political history. He is a particular
exponent of 'thickened political narrative,' which he deployed in The
Minority of Henry III (1990), a book which traced the complex political
history of the years 1216 to 1227 out of which a new monarchy, limited by Magna
Carta, emerged. David Carpenter has also fixed the true date of Magna Carta in
1215, revealed the causes of the great political revolution in 1258 and shown
how peasants were fully engaged in the subsequent Montfortian period of reform
and rebellion. Apart
from The Minority of Henry III, David Carpenter's publications include
The Battles of Lewes and Evesham 1264/1265 (1987) and The Reign of Henry
III (1996). In important articles he has argued that feudalism was
fundamental to the workings of English society and politics in the century after
1166, and has cast new light on the place of both the Tower of London and
Westminster Abbey in
England's
polity. David also discovered how Henry III in the 1250s saved a vast treasure
in gold, thus clarifying the reasons for the minting of England's first gold
coinage in 1257.
David
Carpenter's most recent book is The Struggle for Mastery in
Britain
1066-1284,
a volume in the New Penguin History of Britain. This weaves together the
histories of England, Scotland and Wales in a strikingly new way and argues that
the rulers of all three, in their different fashions, were competing for mastery
in Britain.
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Honorary position of Fellow
of the University of Keele
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David Cox was a pupil at Prince Henry's Grammar School, Evesham,
and gained his doctorate at University College London on the
fourteenth-century French Chronicle of London. After a short time as an
archivist in Monmouthshire David joined the Victoria County History in
1972 and worked on the history of Shropshire until he retired in 2002
(by which time he was also a lecturer in History at Keele University).
David retired from the editorship of the Shropshire Record Series in
2007 and since then his research has been concentrated exclusively on
Evesham abbey. At the time of writing (March 2010) David has two
articles in the press: Evesham abbey: the romanesque church
(Journal of the British Archaeological Association) and The literary
remains of Adam, abbot of Evesham (1161-1189) (Journal of Medieval
Latin). Among his other publications, in addition to articles in the
Victoria History of Shropshire, are: The Battle of Evesham
(1989), This foolish business: Dr Nash and the Worcestershire
collections (1993) and Sir Stephen Glynne's church notes for
Shropshire (1997). His other articles include: The Vale estates
of the church of Evesham c. 700-1086 (1975), The battle of
Evesham in the Evesham chronicle (1989) and Cult and concealment:
St Oswald of Worcester and Evesham abbey (2002). |
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