Uncovering Lincoln's Magna Carta - Professor Stephen Church

Lincoln Guildhall is very pleased to welcome Professor Stephen Church, Professor in Medieval Studies within the University of Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage, for his lecture entitled Uncovering Lincoln's Magna Carta - exploring the wider context surrounding the great charter.

A world renowned scholar of medieval history, Professor Church joined Lincoln in 2023 from the University of East Anglia where he had been Professor of Medieval History. Between leaving school and becoming an academic historian, he was a bank clerk, a buyer of cardboard boxes and plastic bottles, a labourer, and a housing liaison officer for Camden Council. Professor Church has been director of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies and an associate editor of History, the journal of the Historical Association.

His research is primarily focused on the period 1000 to 1300, concentrating on issues surrounding rulership and the exercise of power in the French-speaking world of North-Western Europe. His main publications have been in this area, though, like all medievalists, this focus does not provide the only outlet for his research interests. He has published on subjects as diverse as Anglo-Saxon paganism, twelfth-century administrative records, fourteenth-century landholding, and on the preservation of sepulchral monuments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The lecture will commence at 12 noon, so please arrive to be seated by 11.45am.

Due to the nature of this historic building, there are several flights of stairs, and we must ask that visitors are able to ascend and descend these unaided for safety reasons. Please take this into account before booking. If you have any questions please contact the organisers.

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