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Professor James Clark
Former Professor of History
Email: j.g.clark@exeter.ac.uk
Prof James Clark left Bristol in March 2013 to take up a chair at the University of Exeter.
Research interests
Ecclesiastical and intellectual history of later medieval and pre-Reformation England, especially the life and learning of the monasteries down to the Dissolution; also the transmission and reception of the Latin classics; the production and transmission of manuscripts and early printed books, particularly in a monastic context.
Research supervision
Welcomes research (MPhil, MLitt, PhD) proposals on any aspect of later medieval and pre-Reformation church and religion, learned culture and books.
Selected publications
- The Benedictines in the Middle Ages (Boydell, 2011)
- (joint ed.), Ovid in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2011)
- (ed.)The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 30 Boydell: 2007)
- [with D. Preest] The Chronica maiora of Thomas Walsingham (Boydell: 2005)
- A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans: Thomas Walsingham and his Circle, c. 1350-1440 (Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford University Press: 2004)
- (ed.)The Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 18 Boydell: 2002)
Full publications
Full list of Dr Clark's publications since 2001 as held in the University's IRIS publications database.
Selected Media
- Channel 4 History of Christianity: Reformation
- BBC Radio 4 Making History: Archbishop Thomas Bourchier