Susan Reynolds MA (Oxon), FBA

Susan Reynolds is an Honorary Fellow of the IHR and of the History departments of Birkbeck College and University College London, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Her research interests cover the social, political, and legal history of medieval western Europe, in particular at present lay political ideas, and also the expropriation of land for the public good throughout history.

Her publications include:

  • An introduction to the history of English medieval towns (OUP: Clarendon Press, 1977; OUP paperback, 1981)
  • Kingdoms and communities in western Europe, 900-1300 (OUP: Clarendon Press, 1984; OUP paperback 1986; second edition with new introduction, 1997)
  • Fiefs and vassals: the Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted (OUP, 1994; paperback 1996)
  • Ideas and solidarities of the medieval laity: England and western Europe: selected essays including one previously unpublished (Variorum, 1995)
  • ‘The historiography of the medieval state' in Companion to Historiography , ed. M. Bentley (Routledge, 1997), 117-38.
  • ‘The emergence of professional law in the long twelfth century', Law and History Review 21 (2003), 347-66, and ‘Variations in Professionalism'(response to three commentators), ibid. 389-91.

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