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Dr Christopher Briggs

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Dr Christopher Briggs

Lecturer in Medieval British Social and Economic History

Selwyn College
Cambridge
CB3 9DQ
Office Phone: 01223 3 35865

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Biography:

BA University of Oxford

PhD University of Cambridge

2003-2006 British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

2006-2009 Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project 'Private Law and Medieval Village Society: Personal Actions in Manor Courts, c.1250-1350', Cambridge Group

2009-2011 Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Southampton

Subject groups/Research projects

Ancient and Medieval History:
Economic, Social and Cultural History:

Teaching

Lectures and supervisions for Part I Paper 8. I also contribute to teaching for the Themes and Sources paper on 'Money and Society', and to the M.Phil in Medieval History.

Key Publications

  • 'Manorial court roll inventories as evidence for English peasant consumption and living standards, c.1270-c.1420'. In, Furio, A. and Garcia-Oliver, F. (eds.) Pautes de Consum i Nivells de Vida al Món Rural Medieval. Valencia, Spain, Publicacions de la Universitat de València (forthcoming)
  • 'Monitoring demesne managers through the manor court before and after the Black Death', in R. Goddard, J. Langdon, and M. Muller, Survival and Discord in Medieval Society. Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer (2010)
  • 'Credit and the freehold land market in England, c.1200-c.1350: possibilities and problems for research', In, T. Lambrecht and P.R. Schofield, Credit and the rural economy in North-western Europe, c. 1200-c. 1850 (2009).
  • Credit and Village Society in Fourteenth-Century England (2009)
  • 'Seigniorial control of villagers' litigation beyond the manor in later medieval England', Historical Research, 81 (2008)
  • 'The availability of credit in the English countryside, 1400-1480', Agricultural History Review, 56 (2008)
  • ‘Manor court procedures, debt litigation levels, and rural credit provision in England, c.1290-c.1380’, Law and History Review, 24.3 (2006)
  • 'Taxation, warfare and the early fourteenth-century "crisis" in the north: Cumberland lay subsidies, 1332-1348', Economic History Review, 58 (2005)
  • 'Empowered or marginalized? Rural women and credit in later thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England', Continuity and Change, 19 (2004)
  • 'Credit and the peasant household economy in England before the Black Death: evidence from a Cambridgeshire manor', in C. Beattie, A. Maslakovic and S. Rees Jones, The Medieval Household in Christian Europe, c. 850-c. 1550. Managing Power, Wealth, and the Body (2003)
  • 'Creditors and debtors and their relationships at Oakington, Cottenham and Dry Drayton (Cambridgeshire), 1291-1350', in P.R. Schofield and N.J. Mayhew, Credit and Debt in Medieval England c.1180-c.1350 (Oxford: Oxbow, 2002)