Faculty Postholders
Dr Benjamin Thompson
M.A., Ph.D., F.R.Hist.S.
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History
Email: benjamin.thompson@some.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Dr Thompson's work encompasses the church, landowning society and politics in England from the Conquest to the Reformation. He is writing a book on changing aristocratic attitudes to the church's property, culminating in the Dissolution of the Monasteries. He is also preparing a text-book on Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 1272-1485, developing his more general interest in the late-medieval church and religious culture.
Supervision Interests
Dr Thompson offers supervision to students in the period between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries in England, especially on the church and religion and on landowning society.
Selected Publications:
- 'The Statute of Carlisle, 1307, and the Alien Priories ', Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Vol 41 (1990) pp. 543-83
- 'Habendum et Tenendum: Lay and Ecclesiastical Attitudes to the Property of the Church ' in Religious Belief and Ecclesiastical Careers in Late Medieval England. (Woodbridge, 1991) pp. 197-238
- 'Monasteries and their Patrons at Foundation and Dissolution', Royal Historical Society Transactions. Vol 6, 4 (1994) pp. 103-125
- 'Free Alms Tenure in the Twelfth Century' in Anglo-Norman Studies XVI Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1993. Vol XVI (Woodbridge, 1994) pp. 221-243
- (ed.) The Reign of Henry VII. Proceedings of the 1993 Harlaxton Symposium . Vol V (Stamford, 1995) xiv+279+59plpp.
- (ed.) Monasteries and Society in Medieval Britain: Proceedings of the 1994 Harlaxton Symposium . Vol VI (Stamford, 1999) xii+367+44plpp.
- 'The Academic and Active Vocations in the Medieval Church: Archbishop John Pecham' in The Church and Learning in later Medieval Society: Essays in honour of RB Dobson: Proceedings of the 1999 Harlaxton Symposium. Vol XI (Donington, 2002) pp. 1-24
- 'Monasteries, Society and Reform in Late Medieval England' in The Religious Orders in Pre-Reformation England: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion. Vol XVIII (Woodbridge, 2002) pp. 165-195
- 'Prelates and Politics from Winchelsey to Warham' in The Fifteenth Century. IV. Political Culture in Late Medieval Britain. Vol 4 (Woodbridge, 2004) pp. 69-95
- 'Patrons and Communities: Late Medieval Secular Colleges from Foundation to Dissolution' in . (http://oxhistonline.modhist.ox.ac.uk/publications/23/, 2007)
Future Publications:
- Church, Society and Politics in Late-Medieval England: the Transformation of the Alien Priories.
- Church, Society and Property in Medieval England. (Cambridge, 200)
- 'The Church and Graduates' in Governing in Late Medieval England and France: Office, Network, Idea. (2007)
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