Paul Harvey divided his academic interests, in his own words, into three broad areas: ‘in archive preservation, in medieval social and economic history, and in the history of maps’. In each, he was a consistent and important public advocate and a scholar of outstanding distinction. He made major contributions to the study of the rural economy of late medieval England, to the practices of editing English historical documents from the medieval period to the 20th century, to the description and study of medieval seals, and to the history of cartography, from local topographical maps and their worldwide development to the study of medieval world maps.
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