Matthew Frank Stevens, PhD (Wales)

Research Officer, Centre for Metropolitan History

Biography

Matthew Frank Stevens attended Pennsylvania State University from 1996-8 followed by the University of Wales, Aberystwyth from 1998-2000, where he was awarded a BA in history.  Remaining at Aberystwyth, he was further awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Palaeography in 2004 followed by a PhD in medieval Welsh history 2005.  Matthew then held the Economic History Society’s Eileen Power fellowship at the University of Oxford’s Modern History Research Unit for the year 2005-6, before becoming a Research Officer at the University of London’s Centre for Metropolitan History from 2006 to 2010. He is now a lecturer at Swansea University. 

Research Interests

Matthew’s research interests include:

  • Anglo-Welsh relations in the later Middle Ages
  • Social and occupational structure in urban communities of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. 
  • Credit and debt in the later Middle Ages.
  • Closure theory and Weberian / Marxist approaches to pre-modern history
  •  Women, labour, and the economy in the Middle Ages

Publications

  • A monograph issuing principally from Matthew’s PhD research is forthcoming with the University of Wales Press (2008-9) under the title Urban Assimilation in Post-Conquest Wales: Ethnicity, Gender and Economy in Ruthin 1282-1350.   
  • ‘Wealth, Status, and “Race” in the Ruthin of Edward II’, Urban History 32 (2005)
  •  ‘Women Brewers in Fourteenth-Century Ruthin’, Denbighshire Historical Society Transactions 55 (2006)

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