Prof John Hudson
Prof John Hudson

Professor John Hudson

MA (Tor.), MA, DPhil (Oxon.), FRHistS - Professor of Legal History

 
Contact Details

E-mail - jghh@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462888
Fax - +44 (0)1334 463334

 

 

Teaching and Research Interests

Teaching and research focus on ninth to thirteenth-century England and France, in particular the fields of law, lordship, and literature. Teaching also covers the intellectual and cultural history of this period. Further areas of specialization are historical writing and late nineteenth-century study of mediaeval England. He is working on the earliest volume of the Oxford History of the Laws of England.

Main Publications

  • Land, Law, and Lordship in Anglo-Norman England (Oxford, 1994) [Details]
  • editor - with G S Garnett, Law and Government in Medieval England and Normandy (Cambridge, 1994) [Details]
  • The Formation of the English Common Law (London, 1996) [Details]
  • (editor) "Pollock and Maitland": Centenary Essays on the "History of English Law" (Proceedings of the British Academy (89; 1996)
  • The History of the Church of Abingdon (2 vols, Oxford, 2002 and 2007) [Details]

Research Students

He will supervise postgraduate students in the fields of English History c. 1000-1250; medieval legal history; medieval historical writing.

  • Elizabeth Thomas, Royal marriage in England, 1154-1272
  • Linsey Hunter, Lordship and landholding norms between the Humber and the Forth c. 1050-1250

Administrative Duties

On Research Leave Semester 1

Teaching Duties

Offers the following Honours courses:

Offers the following Postgraduate course:

  • Sources and Criticism

 

Main Publications

The History of the Church of Abingdon

 

The Formation of the English Common Law