Phillipp Richard Schofield is a medieval historian and a professor in

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's Department of History and Welsh History.

Career

Schofield graduated from University College London in 1986, with a BA in ancient and medieval history. He then undertook a doctorate at Wadham College, Oxford, under the supervision of Barbara Harvey: his DPhil was awarded in 1992 for his thesis "Land, family and inheritance in a later medieval community: Birdbrook, 1292–1412". After spending a year working for a

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firm, Schofield returned to the University of Oxford to take up a research position at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine in 1993. Three years later, he took up a post in the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure at the University of Cambridge, before joining

in 1998. As of 2018, he is a Professor in the Department of History and Welsh History; he is currently Head of that Department. He understands and speaks Welsh. Since 2011, he has been co-editor of the ''

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'', a scholarly journal. Schofield's research focuses on the English medieval rural economy and society.Prof Phillipp Schofield"
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Honours

In 2016, Schofield was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society as of 2018."Fellows - S"
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Selected works

* ''Peasants and Historians: Debating the Medieval English Peasantry'', Manchester Medieval Studies series (Manchester University Press, 2016). * (Co-edited with Elizabeth New, Susan Johns and John McEwan) ''Seals and Society: Medieval Wales, the Welsh Marches and Their English Border Counties'' (University of Wales Press, 2016). * (Co-edited with

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) ''Peasants and Lords in the Medieval English Economy: Essays in Honour of Bruce M. S. Campbell'' (Brepols, 2015). * (Edited) ''Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages'' (Oxbow Books, 2014). * (Co-edited with Gérard Béaur, Jean-Michel Chevet and María Teresa Piréz Picazo) ''Property Rights, Land Markets and Economic Growth in the European Countryside'' (Brepols, 2013). * (Co-edited with R. A. Griffiths) ''Wales and the Welsh in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to J. Beverley Smith'' (University of Wales Press, 2011) * (Co-edited with Thijs Lambrecht) ''Credit and the Rural Economy in North-Western Europe, c. 1200–c. 1850'' (Brepols, 2009). * (Co-edited with Bas J. P. van Bavel) ''The Development of Leasehold in Northwestern Europe, c. 1200–1600'' (Brepols, 2009). * (Co-edited with Peter Lambert) ''Making History: An Introduction to the History and Practices of a Discipline'' (Taylor & Francis, 2004). * ''Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200–1500'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). * (Co-authored with

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) ''Credit and Debt in Medieval England, c. 1180–c. 1350 (Oxbow Books, 2002).''

References

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