Philippa Mary Hoskin is a British historian of the English Middle Ages, who specializes in the religious, legal and administrative history of the English Church. She is the Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. [1]
Philippa Hoskin studied for a BA in history at Somerville College, Oxford, and was subsequently awarded a doctorate for a thesis which examined the administration of the diocese of Worcester in the thirteenth century.
Between 1995 and 2010 she worked at the Borthwick Institute for Historical Research, University of York (later, Borthwick Institute for Archives), taking a professional qualification in Archive Administration while there. In 2010 she joined the University of Lincoln, where she developed the teaching of medieval history, becoming the first Professor of Medieval Studies.
In 2019 she was appointed Director of the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where she is the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Fellow Librarian, [2] as well as being a Principal Research Fellow in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. [3]
She holds various professional affiliations and memberships being a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. She is the general editor of the British Academy's English Episcopal Acta project (which studies the administration of English medieval diocese from the 11th- to the early 14th-centuries) and of Lincoln Record Society's medieval record series. She was previously general editor for the Canterbury and York Society and is now vice-president. [4] Her most recent work has concerned Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln and scholar (c.1168–1253), producing both an edited edition of his administrative roll, Robert Grosseteste as Bishop ofLincoln: The Episcopal Rolls 1235-1253, [5] and a monograph about his pastoral care, Robert Grosseteste and the 13th-Century Diocese of Lincoln: An English Bishop's Pastoral Vision (2019). [6]
She has worked on a number of digital humanities projects including as lead on the Andrew W. Mellon funded Cause Papers in the Diocesan Courts of the Archdiocese of York, 1300-1858: A Database Project [6] and the AHRC funded project Imprint: a forensic and historical investigation of fingerprints on medieval seals. [7]
Boniface of Savoy was a medieval Bishop of Belley in Savoy and Archbishop of Canterbury in England. He was the son of Thomas, Count of Savoy and owed his initial ecclesiastical posts to his father. Other members of his family were also clergymen, and a brother succeeded his father as count. One niece Eleanor of Provence was married to King Henry III of England, and another was married to King Louis IX of France. It was Henry who secured Boniface's election as Archbishop, and throughout his tenure of that office, he spent much time on the continent. He clashed with his bishops, with his nephew-by-marriage, and with the papacy but managed to eliminate the archiepiscopal debt that he had inherited on taking office. During Simon de Montfort's struggle with King Henry, Boniface initially helped Montfort's cause but later supported the king. After his death in Savoy, his tomb became the object of a cult, and he was eventually beatified in 1839.
Robert Grosseteste, also known as Robert Greathead or Robert of Lincoln, was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln. He was born of humble parents in Suffolk, but the association with the village of Stradbroke is a post-medieval tradition. Upon his death, he was revered as a saint in England, but attempts to procure a formal canonisation failed. A. C. Crombie called him "the real founder of the tradition of scientific thought in medieval Oxford, and in some ways, of the modern English intellectual tradition". As a theologian, however, he contributed to increasing hostility to Jews and Judaism, and spread the accusation that Jews had purposefully suppressed prophetic knowledge of the coming of Christ, through his translation of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.
Richard Poore or Poor was a medieval English bishop best known for his role in the establishment of Salisbury Cathedral and the City of Salisbury, moved from the nearby fortress of Old Sarum. He served as Bishop of Chichester, Bishop of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham.
David Bates is a historian of Britain and France during the period from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries. He has written many books and articles during his career, including Normandy before 1066 (1982), Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum: The Acta of William I, 1066–1087 (1998), The Normans and Empire (2013), William the Conqueror (2016) in the Yale English Monarchs series and La Tapisserie de Bayeux (2019).
Ancrene Wisse is an anonymous monastic rule for female anchoresses written in the early 13th century.
Henry of Huntingdon, the son of a canon in the diocese of Lincoln, was a 12th-century English historian and the author of Historia Anglorum, as "the most important Anglo-Norman historian to emerge from the secular clergy". He served as archdeacon of Huntingdon. The few details of Henry's life that are known originated from his own works and from a number of official records. He was brought up in the wealthy court of Robert Bloet of Lincoln, who became his patron.
Jocelin of Wells was a medieval Bishop of Bath. He was the brother of Hugh de Wells, who became Bishop of Lincoln. Jocelin became a canon of Wells Cathedral before 1200, and was elected bishop in 1206. During King John of England's dispute with Pope Innocent III, Jocelin at first remained with the king, but after the excommunication of John in late 1209, Jocelin went into exile. He returned to England in 1213, and was mentioned in Magna Carta in 1215.
Remigius de Fécamp was a Benedictine monk who was a supporter of William the Conqueror.
Nicholas Farnham was a medieval Bishop of Durham.
Ranulf of Wareham was a medieval Bishop of Chichester.
Richard Swinefield was a medieval Bishop of Hereford, England. He graduated as a doctor of divinity before holding several ecclesiastical offices, including that of Archdeacon of London. As a bishop, he dedicated considerable efforts to securing the canonisation of Thomas de Cantilupe, his predecessor, for whom he had worked during his lifetime. Active in his diocese, he devoted little time to national political life. He was noted for his hostility to Jews and demanded their removal from Christian society, and ultimately, from England. He was buried in Hereford Cathedral where his memorial still stands.
Robert de Chesney was a medieval English Bishop of Lincoln. He was the brother of an important royal official, William de Chesney, and the uncle of Gilbert Foliot, successively Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London. Educated at Oxford or Paris, Chesney was Archdeacon of Leicester before his election as bishop in December 1148.
Hugh of Wells was a medieval Bishop of Lincoln. He began his career in the diocese of Bath, where he served two successive bishops, before joining royal service under King John of England. He served in the royal administration until 1209, when he was elected to the see, or bishopric, of Lincoln. When John was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III in November 1209, Hugh went into exile in France, where he remained until 1213.
David Bruce Crouch, is a British historian and academic. From 2000 until his retirement in 2018, he was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hull.
Christopher Harper-Bill was a British historian who was a professor of history at the University of East Anglia. He had previously taught Medieval History at St. Mary's University College (Twickenham). Harper-Bill's research interests were "the ecclesiastical history of England from the Norman Conquest to the eve of the Reformation, and particularly in the edition of episcopal and monastic records." Harper-Bill was completing a four-volume edition of the acta of the bishops of Norwich from 1070 to 1299.
Christopher Robert Cheney was an English medieval historian, noted for his work on the medieval English church and the relations of the papacy with England, particularly in the age of Pope Innocent III.
John Crakehall was an English clergyman and Treasurer of England from 1258 to 1260. Possibly the younger son of a minor noble family in Yorkshire, Crakehall served two successive bishops of Lincoln from around 1231 to the 1250s. He then became an archdeacon in the diocese of Lincoln before being named as treasurer, where he served until his death in 1260. He owed his appointment to the treasurership to a number of factors, including his reputation for administrative ability and his relationship with the leader of the baronial effort to reform royal government. While in office, he strove to improve the administration of the exchequer as well as collect outstanding debts to the government and improve royal revenues.
Judith Diane Maltby is an American-born Anglican priest and historian, who specialises in post-Reformation church history and the history of early modern Britain. She has been the chaplain and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, since 1993, and reader in church history at the University of Oxford since 2004.
Burreth is a now-deserted village in Lincolnshire.
An Episcopal register in the English Medieval Ages was a document, often consisting of several volumes, in which a bishop's or archbishop's activity was recorded.
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