Christine Carpenter (historian)

Mary Christine Carpenter FRHistS (born 7 December 1946) is an English historian who was professor of medieval English history at the University of Cambridge.

Christine Carpenter
Born (1946-12-07) 7 December 1946 (age 77)
Oxford, England
Other namesMary Christine Carpenter
Academic background
Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge
ThesisPolitical Society in Warwickshire c. 1401–72 (1976)
Doctoral advisorG. L. Harriss
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineMedieval English history
InstitutionsNew Hall, Cambridge
Doctoral students

Early life and education

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Carpenter was born on 7 December 1946 in Oxford, England.[1] She received her Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Newnham College, Cambridge.[2] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Political society in Warwickshire, c.1401-72" and was submitted in 1976.[3] Her doctoral supervisor was G. L. Harriss.[4]

Academia

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

Carpenter was a freelance tutor and lecturer at the University of Cambridge from 1976 to 1979. In 1979, she was elected a fellow of New Hall, Cambridge. She was additionally a university assistant lecturer from 1983 to 1988 and a university lecturer from 1988 to 1995. She was appointed Reader in Medieval English History in 1995 and made Professor of Medieval English History in 2005.

Carpenter is author and editor of a number of English history books and papers.[5] Her 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][5]

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.[5]

Carpenter is the director of an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project to complete the calendaring of the 15th-century Inquisitions post mortem, and one of the editors of the Cambridge University Press Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, in addition to serving on other editorial committees.[5]

In June 2012, Carpenter was selected to give the Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford in the 2015–2016 academic year.[6]

Books and other works

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  • 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 (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
  • 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

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See also

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References

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  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. [dead link]
  2. ^ a b 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. [dead link]
  3. ^ Carpenter, Mary Christine (1976). "Political society in Warwickshire, c.1401-72". E-Thesis Online Service. The British Library Board. Retrieved 17 March 2023.
  4. ^ Carpenter, Christine (1992). Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401-1499. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. xiii. ISBN 9780521370165.
  5. ^ a b c d Cambridge University Faculty of History: Professor Christine Carpenter http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/mcc1000@cam.ac.uk, accessed 7 September 2012. Archived 23 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ 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
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Academic offices
Preceded by Ford Lecturer
2015–2016
Succeeded by