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.

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]
  • The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume II 871-1216 (Oxford University Press 2012)

Research Students

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

Current Doctoral Students:

  • Maxine Esser, John of Salisbury and Law
  • Matt McHaffie, Lordship in Anjou
  • Kate Hammond, Family and Politics in Normandy to c.1150
  • Eilidh Harris, Gender and Identity in Anglo-Norman Latin Hagiographies of the Long Twelfth Century [with Kirsten Fenton]
  • Jane Edwards, "Bettered by the Borrower" ?: the use of extracts from English Twelfth Century historical writing
  • Michael French, Religious Depictions: Written Representations of Anglo-Norman Churchmen (1066 - 1135)
  • Will Eves, The Assize of Mort d’Ancestor in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries.

Completed Research Students:

  • Kyoko Kamiya: Crown and towns in Norman Sicily (M. Litt., 1992) [jointly with H. Kennedy]
  • Nicola J. Castles: The Transmission of Classical and Patristic Texts in late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England, (Ph.D 1994)  [jointly with D.A. Bullough and A. Gratwick]
  • Julie Kerr: Perceptions and Practices of Benedictine Hospitality in England (Ph.D., 2000)
  • April Harper, Representations of adultery in Old French Literature (Ph. D., 2003)
  • Amanda Martinson, Ecclesiastical Patronage of Henry II (Ph.D., 2007)
  • Elizabeth Thomas, Royal marriages in twelfth and thirteenth century England (Ph.D.,  2009)
  • Linsey Hunter, Lordship and landholding norms between the Humber and the Forth c. 1050-1250

Administrative Duties

Head of School

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