Staff profile
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Job title: Senior Lecturer
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Dept: History and American Studies
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Tel: 01227 454700 ext 24
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Campus: Canterbury
Academic/Personal Backgrond:
Louise Wilkinson studied medieval history at King’s College London, gaining her doctorate there in 1999. After working at The National Archives as a research fellow on the ‘Completing the Calendar of Patent Rolls (Elizabeth I) Project, she joined the Department of History and American Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University in 2004.
Undergraduate Teaching Responsibilities:
Level 4 (Year 1): “The Black Death: England and Europe in Crisis, c. 1300-c.1400”
Level 5 (Year 2): “Anarchy, Law, War and Tyranny: Angevin England, 1128-1216”; and “Ruling England, 1135-1216” (linked module)
Level 6 (Year 3): “Daughters, Wives and Widows: Women in England, c. 1050-1400”; and “Love, Sex and Marriage: Sources for Medieval Women, c. 1050-1400” (linked module)
Louise is also happy to supervise final year individual studies on topics such as medieval queens and English politics and society in the Middle Ages.
Research Interests
Louise’s main areas of research are gender, society and politics in thirteenth-century England. She is passionate about medieval records, their preservation, digitisation and translation, a legacy from her days working at The National Archives in London. Louise is a co-director of the AHRC-funded project ‘Between Magna Carta and the Parliamentary State: The Fine Rolls of Henry III, 1216-72’ (in collaboration with King’s College London and the National Archives). She is also joint general editor (with Dr Paul Dryburgh of the Borthwick Institute at the University of York) of the Pipe Roll Society, a scholarly society dedicated to the publication of government records of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. She has recently completed a biography for Continuum, Eleanor de Montfort: A Rebel Countess in Medieval England (in press). This study looks at the life and career of Eleanor, (d. 1275) the youngest sister of King Henry III and the wife of his political nemesis, Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, during the period of baronial reform and rebellion in England.
Recent publications include …
L. J. Wilkinson (ed.), A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Middle Ages, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2010.
E. Oakley-Brown and L. J. Wilkinson (eds), The Rituals and Rhetoric of Queenship, Medieval to Early Modern, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009.
L. J. Wilkinson, Women in Thirteenth-Century England, Woodbridge: Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2007.