Stephen Church is a writer and professor of

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at the

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and is regarded as an expert on King John. In 2015 his book ''King John: England, Magna Carta, and the Making of a Tyrant'' was one of the

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best books of the year.

Career

Church is an expert in Medieval History, specifically the 12th Century and works at the

School of History department which he joined in 1995 after completing his postgraduate work in London. He is a Fellow of the

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and the

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. He is also a trustee of the Allen Brown Memorial Trust, where he organises the R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture that is given at the opening of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies. The Trust also gives conference bursaries for postgraduate students and sponsors sessions at other conferences and a postgraduate reading group. Since 1994 he has written several articles (including for the journal ''History'') and books on Medieval History, and is a regular conference organiser and speaker on the subject of King John. Church has been regularly acknowledged as strong support to fellow Historians in their writing and has lectured in Europe on the subject of the Plantagenet Empire. In 2010 he co-lead with Professor Elisabeth Tyler (

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) two reading groups which aimed to read

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's ''Historica ecclesiastica'' from start to finish and reflect on its content. In 2015 he appeared on Saturday Extra on Australian station ABC Radio with

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to discuss why does Magna Carta still matter, and co-presented the

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programme The Last Journey of the Magna Carta King, part of the BBC ''Taking Liberties'' season, with archaeologist Dr Ben Robinson.

Publications

Books

* 2017 – ''Henry III: A Simple and God-Fearing King'' * 2015 – ''King John: England, Magna Carta, and the Making of a Tyrant'' * 2015 – ''King John and the Road to Magna Carta'' * 2007 – ''King John: New Interpretations'' * 2007 – ''Dialogus de Scaccario, and Constitutio Domus Regis The Dialogue of the Exchequer, and The Disposition of the Royal Household (Oxford Medieval Texts)'' * 2001 – ''The Pakenham Cartulary for the Manor of Ixworth Thorpe, Suffolk, c.1250-c.1320 (17) (Suffolk Charters)'' * 1999 – ''The Household Knights of King John'' * 1994 – ''Medieval Knighthood V (with Ruth Harvey)''

Selected published articles

* 2017 – ''Political Discourse at the Court of Henry II and the Making of the New Kingdom of Ireland: The Evidence of John’s Title dominus Hibernie'' – History pg.808–823 ISSN 0018-2648 * 2016 – ''Stephen: The Reign of Anarchy. By Carl Watkins. Penguin Monarchs Series. Allen Lane'' – History pg.772–773 ISSN 0018-2648 * 2010 – ''King John’s Testament and the Last Days of his Reign'' – English Historical Review pg.505–528 ISSN 1477-4534 * 2009 – ''The care of the royal tombs in English cathedrals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the case of the effigy of King John at Worcester'' – The Antiquaries Journal ISSN 1758-5309 * 2008 – ''Paganism in conversion age Anglo Saxon England: the evidence of Bede's Ecclesiastical History reconsidered'' – History pg.162–180 ISSN 1468-229X * 2007 – ''Aspects of the royal itinerary in twelfth-century England'' – Thirteenth Century England pg.31–45 ISSN 0269-6967 * 1995 – ''The rewards of royal service in the household of King John: a dissenting opinion'' – English Historical Review pg.277–302 ISSN 1477-4534 * 1994 – ''The earliest English muster roll, 18/19 December 1215'' – Historical Research pg.1–17 ISSN 1468-2281

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Church, Stephen Living people Academics of the University of East Anglia BBC television presenters British medievalists Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Year of birth missing (living people)