Professor Nigel Saul

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Biography

Nigel Saul is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He is author of numerous books on the Middle Ages, among them Richard II (New Haven and London, 1997); English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages. History and Representation (Oxford, 2009); and For Honour and Fame. Chivalry in England, 1066-1500 (London: Bodley Head, 2011). He was historical consultant for the BBC4 series, Chivalry and Betrayal, first shown in 2013.

Qualifications:

MA, University of Oxford

PhD, University of Oxford

Research

My research interests lie in the related fields of the reign of King Richard II, English aristocratic society in the late Middle Ages, medieval chivalry, and English medieval tomb sculpture.

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

‘Commemoration of the war dead in late medieval England’, Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society, XIX, 5 (2018), 383-415 , 2018
‘The Patronage and Production of English Medieval Tomb Monuments’, in Harlaxton Medieval Studies, 2012 , 2012
‘Chivalry and the Birth of Celebrity’, History Today, 61 (June 2011), 20-25 ‘New light on the brass at Stoke-in-Teignhead, Devon’, Monumental Brass Society Bulletin, 117 (June, 2011), 334-6. , 2011
‘The Lovekyns and the Lovekyn Chapel’, Surrey Archaeological Collections, 96 (2011) , 2011
‘What an epitaph can tell us: recovering the world of John Lovekyn’, Ecclesiology Today, 43 (December 2010), 61-7. , 2010
‘The Lovekyn Chapel, Kingston-upon-Thames, London’, Country Life,25 November 2009. , 2009
‘The Cuckoo in the Nest: A Dallingridge Tomb in the FitzAlan Chapel at Arundel’, Sussex Archaeological Collections, 147 (2009), 125-33. , 2009
‘The Brass of Sir William d’Audley at Horseheath, Cambridgeshire’, Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society, 18 (2009), 43-52 , 2009
‘Language and Commemoration on the Brass of Sir Thomas Walsh and his Wife at Wanlip, Leicestershire’, Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society, forthcoming (UNKNOWN)
‘The medieval wooden tomb effigies at Little Baddow (Essex)’, Church Monuments, 32 (2017), 11-27 , 2017

BOOKS

Lordship and Faith. The English Gentry and the Parish Church in the Middle Ages (Oxford University Press, 2017), xiii + 360 pp , 2017
For Honour and Fame. Chivalry in England, 1066-1500 (London: Bodley Head, 2011), xiv + 416 pp.Books (editor and contributor) , 2011
(with Tim Tatton-Brown) St George’s Chapel, Windsor: History and Heritage (Wimborne Minster: Dovecote Press, 2010), 264 pp , 2010
English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages. History and Representation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009), xvii + 413 pp. , 2009
Fourteenth Century England, V (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2008), xii + 190 pp. , 2008
The Three Richards: Richard I, Richard II and Richard III (London: Hambledon and London, 2005), xi + 287 pp. , 2005
St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in the Fourteenth Century (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005), xvii + 241 pp. , 2005
Death, Art and Memory in Medieval England. The Cobham Family and their Monuments 1300-1500 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001), xv + 287 pp. , 2001
Companion to Medieval England (Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 2000), 224 pp. (revised and completely rewritten version of the earlier Batsford Companion) , 2000
Richard II (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997), xiv + 514 pp , 1997
Scenes From Provincial Life: Knightly Families in Sussex 1280-1400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1986), xiv + 204 pp , 1986
The Batsford Companion to Medieval England (London: B.T. Batsford, 1983), 283 pp , 1983
Knights and Esquires. The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981; reissued 2002), xiii + 316 pp , 1981

BOOK CHAPTERS

‘Foreword’ to Military Communities in Late Medieval England. Essays in Honour of Andrew Ayton, ed. G.P. Baker, C.L. Lambert and D. Simpkin (Woodbridge: the Boydell Press, 2018), xiii-xv , 2018
Chapter 9, ‘Chivalry and St George, 1327-1357’, and chapter 13, ‘The College of St George and the Lower Ward, 1399-1485’ (the latter co-authored with T. Tatton-Brown), in Windsor Castle. A Thousand Years of a Royal Palace, ed. S. Brindle (London: Royal Collection Trust, 2018), 82-93 and 130-45 , 2018
‘St George’s Chapel and the Foundation of the Order of the Garter’, in St George’s Chapel, Windsor: History and Heritage, ed. N.E. Saul and T. Tatton-Brown (Wimborne Minster: Dovecote Press, 2010), 45-51. , 2010
‘John Gower; Prophet or Turncoat’, in John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation and Tradition, ed. E. Dutton with J. Hines and R.F. Yeager (Boydell: Woodbridge, 2010), 85-97. , 2010

OTHER

‘Prior and Gardneron Tomb Monuments’, in Centenary Volume to mark the publication of Prior and Gardner’s English Medieval Figure Sculpture in 2012 , 2012
‘Grave Stuff: Litigation with a London Tombmaker in 1421’, Historical Research, online January 2011 , 2011

Memberships

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (to 2015)

Fellow of the Historical Association

President of the Monumental Brass Society, 1995-2002; Vice-President 2002-

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