John Bennett Gillingham (born 3 August 1940) is Emeritus Professor of

Medieval History In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the Post-classical, post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with t ...

at the

London School of Economics and Political Science The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...

. On 19 July 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. 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 s ...

. 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

Yale English Monarchs The Yale English Monarchs series is a series of biographies on English and British kings and queens, published by Yale University Press. The books are written by some of the leading experts within their respective fields, incorporating the latest hi ...

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 {{UK-historian-stub