Natasha Jenman

Research Topic

Thesis Title: Jewish Networks in Medieval England, 1154-1253

My research focuses on Jewish people in medieval England, exploring the social ties implicit in the extensive government records that survive from this period. I am using formal social network analysis to conceptualise the structure of this Jewish community, and the way this structure may have evolved and adapted in response to wider events. This involves Jewish-Christian relationships, also, which will speak to how this community did not live in isolation, but were structurally enmeshed within English society. I am fundamentally interested in these individuals as people, and the relationships and networks that surrounded them. 

Beyond my primary research, I am a member of the Medieval Lincoln Jewry working group, and co-authored a new walking tour of Jewish Medieval Lincoln, further details of which can be found here: https://medievaljewishlincoln.co.uk

I graduated with a first-class BA in History from Newnham College, Cambridge (2021) and an MA in Medieval and Medieval Studies with Distinction from Durham University (2023).

My DPhil is generously co-funded by the OOC AHRC-DTP and the Clarendon Fund.

Supervisors: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger and Benjamin Thompson