John Bennett Gillingham (born 3 August 1940) is Emeritus Professor of
Medieval History
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at the
. On 19 July 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the
British Academy
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It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...
.
Gillingham is renowned as an expert on the
Angevin Empire
The Angevin Empire (; french: Empire Plantagenêt) describes the possessions of the House of Plantagenet during the 12th and 13th centuries, when they ruled over an area covering roughly half of France, all of England, and parts of Ireland and W ...
.
Books
Books by Gillingham:
* ''Richard the Lionheart'' (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978)
* ''The Wars of the Roses: peace and conflict in fifteenth-century England'' (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981)
* ''The Angevin Empire'' (E. Arnold, 1984)
* ''Richard Coeur de Lion: kingship, chivalry and war in the twelfth century'' (Hambledon Press, 1994)
* ''Richard I'' (Yale University Press, 1999) Part of the
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Series
* ''The English in the Twelfth Century: imperialism, national identity, and political values'' (Boydell and Brewer, 2000)
References
Living people
Fellows of the British Academy
People educated at Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School
1940 births
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