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Professor George Garnett is a renowned medievalist at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford. His primary role is as Professor of Medieval History, with affiliations to the Faculty of History. He actively supervises doctoral and master’s students across disciplines, including Wolfson College, University College, English Faculty, and Law Faculty.
His research interests span the English and Norman history from the tenth to fifteenth centuries, emphasizing constitutional history and the Norman Conquest's long-term effects on kingship, succession, and legal frameworks. He also explores political thought, editing works like Vindiciae, contra tyrannos (a sixteenth-century Huguenot resistance treatise) and analyzing the intellectual contributions of figures like Marsilius of Padua and Bartolus of Sassoferrato. A major focus is his Leverhulme-funded The Norman Conquest in English History series, examining historiography from the eleventh to eighteenth centuries.
Media Contributions:
- Featured on BBC Radio 4 programs: The People’s Past (2024), The Norman Way (2007), and Conquered England (2005).
Awards:
- Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (supporting his Norman Conquest historiography project).
Advising & Grants:
- Supervised research on English/Norman history, political thought, and legal history across medieval and early modern periods.
- Recipient of the Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, enabling his two-volume history of the Norman Conquest’s historiography.
Labs/Teams:
Associated with the Gladstone Memorial Trust (www.gladstonememorialtrust.org) and collaborative projects like the edition of Bartolus of Sassoferrato’s treatises with M.J. Ryan.
