Levi Roach (born 30 June 1985) is an academic, a medievalist and historian of Anglo-Saxon England and Holy Roman Empire (Germany), specialising in kingship, governance, and diplomatic. [1]
As a student he studied at the University of Cambridge and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, completing his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge in 2011. [1] Between 2011 and 2012 he held a fellowship with St John's College, Cambridge, and subsequently in 2012 became a lecturer at the University of Exeter. [1] From 2024 he has held a personal chair in Medieval History and Diplomatic. [1]
His work on Æthelred the Unready won the Longman-History Today Prize and the Labarge Prize in 2017, [2] the latter representing the "prize for the best book published by a Canadian medievalist" for the relevant year. [3]