When, at the start of the presentation of my new William the Conqueror, in the Yale University Press English Monarchs series, to the University of Exeter on Wednesday 16 November, Levi Roach asked how long I had been writing the book, I was tempted to answer that it has taken both fifty years and three […]
Having recently passed the viva for my thesis āPainful Transformations: A Medical Approach to Experience, Life Cycle and Text in British Library, Additional MS 61823, The Book of Margery Kempeā, it seems like a timely moment to reflect on the past few months and years of my postgraduate study at Exeter. I am grateful to […]
Of the many celebratedĀ names connected with medieval Exeter,Ā Bracton is one of only a handful to claim global recognition. Bracton is known to students and practitioners of law throughout the Anglophone world as a founding father of English Common Law and the assumed author ofĀ an invaluableĀ compendiumĀ ‘On the Laws and Customs of England’. While he is widely […]