Nationality English Role Historian Fields Higher education | Name Christine Carpenter | |
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Known for Professor of English History, Author, Lecturer, Educator Alma mater Newnham College, Cambridge Books The Wars of the Roses, Locality and polity, Qualitative Research for Occup | ||
Institutions Cambridge University | ||
Mary Christine Carpenter, (born 1946 in Oxford, England) is Professor of Medieval English History at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. In June 2012, Professor Carpenter was selected to give Ford Lectures in Oxford, England in the 2015-2016 academic year, joining prestigious past and present Cambridge "Fordians" John Brewer, Peter Clarke, John Morrill, Quentin Skinner, and others.
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Carpenter received her Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Newnham College, Cambridge. She is author and editor of a number of English history books and papers.
Carpenter's research interests focus on the political and constitutional history of England from 1066 to ca. 1500, and in the political, social, economic, religious and cultural history of noble and gentry landowners in that period.
Carpenter supervises graduate work on government, politics and landed society from ca. 1250 to 1500 and at the undergraduate level she teaches all aspects of English history from ca. 1050 to 1500.
Carpenter is the Director of an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project to complete the calendaring of the 15th century Inquisition post mortems, and one of the editors of the Cambridge University Press Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, in addition to serving on other editorial committees.
In June 2012, Professor Carpenter was selected to give Ford Lectures in Oxford, England in the 2015-2016 academic year.