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Dr Christopher Briggs is an Associate Professor in Medieval British Social and Economic History at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of History. He holds a BA from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. His career includes a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2003–2006) at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, followed by roles at the University of Southampton and AHRC-funded projects on medieval legal systems.
His research focuses on medieval rural societies, legal structures, and economic systems. Key themes include manor court litigation, credit networks in villages, gender roles in market participation, and material culture of rural households. He has led major projects such as 'Private Law and Medieval Village Society' and co-edited influential volumes like Land and Credit: Mortgages in the Medieval and Early Modern European Countryside.
Briggs has published widely in journals like Rural History and Law and History Review, and his work bridges archival analysis with digital humanities, exemplified by the open-access monograph The Material Culture of English Rural Households (2023). He is affiliated with the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, and his research is supported by grants from the AHRC and British Academy.
His awards include the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, and he collaborates on initiatives like the Archaeology Data Service digital archive for rural household studies. Current research explores late medieval peasant civil justice, gendered economic participation, and the intersection of law and material culture.
