Dr Rory Cox

BA., (Hons), MA.,(London), D.Phil., (Oxon) - Lecturer

 

Contact Details

E-mail - rwscc@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 463316
Fax - +44 (0)1334 463334

 

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Teaching and Research Interests

Late medieval intellectual history and military history, particularly during the Hundred Years War. My current research aims to bridge the gap between political thought and military history by exploring the relationship between medieval just war doctrine and medieval warfare. I am specifically interested in ideas of restraint in military practice, including notions of non-combatant immunity, the protection of women against sexual abuse, the treatment of prisoners, the protection of civilian and ecclesiastical goods and property, and the observation of truces and safe-conducts. I am also interested in the history of heresy and the occult during the middle ages.

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Main Publications

‘Asymmetric Warfare and Military Conduct in the Middle Ages’, Journal of Medieval History (forthcoming, March, 2012).

‘Natural Law and the Right of Self-Defence According to John of Legnano and John Wyclif,’ in Fourteenth-Century England VI, ed. C. Given-Wilson (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2010), pp. 149-69.

‘Wyclif: Medieval Pacifist’, History Today (August 2010), pp. 25-7.

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Teaching Duties

Dr Cox teaches on ME1006, ME2003 and HI2001 sub honours courses and offers the following honours courses;

Medieval Political Thought
Justifying Medieval Warfare
England and France at War in the Fourteenth Century

 

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Research Students

I am happy to supervise students undertaking research in the following areas:

• Late medieval intellectual history, particularly political thought.
• European military history, thirteenth to fifteenth centuries.
  
  

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