Michael Clanchy MA, PhD ( Reading ), FBA
Emeritus Professor of Medieval History
Michael Clanchy's interests have been in law, administration and politics in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, notably in record-making and the growth of literacy. His most recent publications concern the ABC primer and the role of mothers in teaching their children to read in European culture in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He also continues to publish on scholasticism, and Abelard and Heloise in particular. He is the Patron of the London Medieval Society.
His books include The Roll and Writ File of the Berkshire Eyre of 1248 (Selden Society, vol. 90, 1973); From Memory to Written Record: England, 1066-1307, second edition (Oxford, 1993); Abelard – a Medieval Life (Oxford, 1997); The Letters of Abelard and Heloise , revised edition [with Betty Radice] (Penguin Classics, London, 2003); England and its Rulers , third edition [with new chapters on ‘The creation of wealth', ‘The matter of Britain' and ‘Lordship and the structure of society'] (Oxford, 2006). Immediately forthcoming is ‘Manuscript Culture, 1100-1500' (in The Blackwell Companion to the History of the Book ed. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose).
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