Migrants in Medieval England, c. 500-c. 1500

W. Mark Ormrod, Professor of Medieval History, University of York,Joanna Story, Professor of Medieval History, University of Leicester,Elizabeth M. Tyler, Professor of Medieval History, University of York

W. Mark Ormrod is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York, where he worked from 1990 to 2016. A specialist in the politics and political culture of later medieval England, he is the author of numerous books, articles and chapters, as well as editions and online resources. His major recent publications include the Yale University Press English Monarchs volume on Edward III (London, 2011); (with Helen Killick and Phil Bradford) Early Common Petitions in the English Parliament, c. 1290-c. 1420, Camden 5th Series 52(Cambridge, 2017) and (with Bart Lambert and Jonathan Mackman) Immigrant England, 1300-1550 (Manchester, 2019).


Joanna Story is professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leicester where she has worked since 1996. She specialises in the period c. AD 600-900, and in the material culture of the written word in manuscript and epigraphic form. Her research and publications are characterised by an interdisciplinary approach to evidence, combining data derived from text, images, and physical remains surviving from the early medieval European past and deploying traditional historical techniques alongside methods used in archaeology and physical sciences.


Elizabeth M. Tyler is Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of York and co-director of the Centre for Medieval Literature, a Danish Centre of Excellence (University of Southern Denmark and York). She works on the literature of early and high medieval England within its European context. Her books include England in Europe: English Royal Women and Literary Patronage c. 1000-c. 1150 (Toronto, 2017) and (as co-editor) Historical Writing in Britain and Ireland, 500-1500 (CUP, 2019). She is currently working on a literary history of the Anglo-Saxon chronicles and a project on the writing of vernacular languages in the Latin West from late antiquity to the twelfth century.

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Acknowledgements
1. Framing Migration in England, W. MARK ORMROD, JOANNA STORY, and ELIZABETH M. TYLER
2. Isotopic and Genetic Evidence for Migration in Medieval England, MARK JOBLING and ANDREW MILLARD
3. Language Contact in Early Medieval Britain: Settlement, Interaction, and Acculturation, MARTIN FINDELL AND PHILIP SHAW
4. Identifying Migrants in Medieval England: The Possibilities and Limitations of Place-Name Evidence, JAYNE CARROLL
5. Personal Names as Evidence for Migrants and Migration in Medieval England, PETER McCLURE
6. Moving People, Moving Forms: Narrating Migration in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, ELIZABETH M. TYLER and GEORGE YOUNGE
7. The Archaeology of Migrants in Viking-Age and Anglo-Norman England: Process, Practice, and Performance, DAWN M. HADLEY
8. The Migrant in English Art: Perspectives on Influence and Agency, JULIAN LUXFORD
9. Migration in Rural England in the Later Middle Ages, CHRISTOPHER DYER
10. English Towns in the Later Middle Ages: The Rules and Realities of Population Mobility, SARAH REES JONES
11. The State and the Immigrant: Negotiating Nationalities in Later Medieval England, BART LAMBERT and W. MARK ORMROD
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