Michael French

I completed my BA in history at Durham University in 2010 and my MLitt in Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews in 2011. I am currently in the first year of my PhD. I am interested in the English Church in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. In particular I focus upon the interaction between the Church and the many changes of the late eleventh century, such as religious reform and the Norman Conquest. My thesis looks at how individual churchmen in this period, such as bishops and archbishops, were portrayed in written sources of the period and how this changed over time. I am especially interested in Archbishops Lanfranc and Anselm of Canterbury.

Thesis Title
‘Religious Depictions: Written Representations of Anglo-Norman Churchmen (1066 - 1135)’ supervised by Professor John Hudson

Publications
Contributed to Martin Palmer, Sacred Land (Piatkus, Forthcoming March 2012)

Papers
‘Simony in the mid-eleventh century canon law: development and practice’ at St Andrews-Aberdeen conference and ‘Pagans, heretics and outcasts’, Oxford, both in May 2011.

 

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