Christine Carpenter (historian)

Mary Christine Carpenter FRHistS (born 1946)[1] is an English historian who serves as professor of medieval English history at the University of Cambridge.

Christine Carpenter

FRHistS
Born (1946-12-07) 7 December 1946
Oxford, England
Other namesMary Christine Carpenter
Academic background
Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge
ThesisPolitical Society in Warwickshire c. 1401–72 (1976)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineMedieval English history
InstitutionsNew Hall, Cambridge
Doctoral students

Early life

Carpenter was born on 7 December 1946 in Oxford, England.

Academia
Newnham College part of the University of Cambridge, with a view of Pfeiffer Arch and the Old Hall building

Carpenter received her Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Newnham College, Cambridge.[2] She is author and editor of a number of English history books and papers.[3]

Carpenter's research interests focus on the political and constitutional history of England from 1066 to c. 1500, and in the political, social, economic, religious, and cultural history of noble and gentry landowners in that period.[2][3]

Carpenter supervises postgraduate work on government, politics and landed society from c. 1250 to 1500 and at the undergraduate level she teaches all aspects of English history from c. 1050 to 1500.[3]

Carpenter is the director of an Arts and Humanities Research Council–funded project to complete the calendaring of the 15th-century Inquisition post mortems, and one of the editors of the Cambridge University Press Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, in addition to serving on other editorial committees.[3]

In June 2012, Carpenter was selected to give the Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford in the 2015–2016 academic year.[4]

Career
  • Freelance tutor and lecturer at the University of Cambridge, 1976–1979
  • Fellow and college lecturer, New Hall, 1979–2005
  • University assistant lecturer, 1983–1988
  • University lecturer, 1988–1995
  • Reader in medieval English history, 1995–2005
  • Professor of medieval English history, 2005–present

Books and other works
  • Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society 1401–1499 (1992) (winner of the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize for 1992)
  • Updated version of Kingsford's edition of The Stonor Letters and Papers 1290–1483 (1996)
  • The Wars of the Roses: Politics and the Constitution c. 1437–1509 (1997)
  • The Armburgh Papers (1998), an edition of the largest collection of 15th-century gentry letters discovered since the 19th century
  • Political Culture in Late Medieval Britain (2004), as co-editor with Linda Clark and author of the introduction
  • A New Constitutional History of Late-Medieval England, 1215–1509, in preparation.
  • Wisdom and Chivalry: Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Medieval Political Theory (2008) by S. H. Rigby. Reviewer: Professor Christine Carpenter, University of Cambridge.

Honours and awards

See also

References
  1. Debrett's Limited: "Prof Christine Carpenter", Debrett's People of Today, http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/c/24457/(Mary)%20Christine+CARPENTER.aspx, accessed 7 September 2012.
  2. Francis Holland School: Brief CVs of Governors, September 2012, http://www.fhs-sw1.org.uk/uploads/1/Brief_cvs_of_Governors_Sept_2012.pdf, accessed 7 September 2012.
  3. Cambridge University Faculty of History: Professor Christine Carpenter http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/[email protected], accessed 7 September 2012.
  4. University of Cambridge: "An Oxford Triple for Cambridge Historians", Faculty of History News, 1 June 2012, http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/an-oxford-triple-for-cambridge-historians, accessed 7 September 2012. Archived 17 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
Academic offices
Preceded by
Steven Gunn		 Ford Lecturer
2015–2016		 Succeeded by
Stefan Collini
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