Professor Christopher Woolgar FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2020
- Subjects
- Medieval studies
- Sections
- Medieval Studies
Summary
Chris Woolgar has a long-standing interest in the history of the everyday, particularly in the medieval period in England, in the ways in which documents of all ages work, and in editing texts. He spent much of his career as an archivist and curator at the University of Southampton, before joining the history department there in 2013. His early archival work at the University of Oxford included discoveries of medieval domestic accounts, which were formative in developing his research into types of archival documents and daily life more generally. He has published on the great household in medieval England, medieval sensory perception, food and diet, and has edited texts on medieval social and economic history. Chris is currently writing a book about the connections between English people and their goods in the later Middle Ages. He has been the editor of the Journal of Medieval History since 2009.
Current post
University of Southampton Emeritus Professor of History and Archival Studies
2021 -
Past appointments
University of Southampton Professor of History and Archival Studies
2007 - 2021
University of Southampton Library Head of Special Collections
1991 - 2013
University of Southampton Library Assistant Librarian (Archivist)
1982 - 1990
Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford Assistant Archivist
1981 - 1982
Magdalen College, University of Oxford SSRC Archivist
1979 - 1981
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Anthony Paul Bale FBA
Anthony Bale is Professor of Medieval & Renaissance English (1954) at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. His research explores later medieval English literature and culture, with particular interests in Christian-Jewish relations, popular religion, pilgrimage and travel, the history of emotions, and codicology.
Professor Paul Binski FBA
Western European art and architecture 1100-1400; royal and ecclesiastical patronage; the art of liturgy and death; hagiography; wall, panel and manuscript painting; Cambridge illuminated manuscripts; international artistic relations.
Professor Nicole Bériou FBA
Religion, culture and communication (mainly preaching) in the Middle Ages; history of religious orders and religious practice (12th-15th century); critical edition of medieval texts (maily sermons)
