John Robert Lewendon Maddicott (born 22 July 1943) is an English historian who has published works on the political and social history of England in the 13th and 14th centuries, and has also written a number of leading articles on the Anglo-Saxon economy, his second area of interest. Born in

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, he was educated at

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. He has written a biography of

Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster ( 1278 – 22 March 1322) was an English nobleman of the first House of Lancaster of the royal Plantagenet Dynasty. He was Earl of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby from 1296 to 1322, and Earl of Lincoln and Sa ...

, and one on

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. In

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, the most prestigious history lectures in

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, on the topic of the genesis of the

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. He taught at the

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and was a fellow and tutor in history at

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, from 1969 until 2006. An elected

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(FBA), he was also joint editor of the

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from 1990 to 2000. In 2001 he delivered the British Academy's Raleigh Lecture on History.text
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Selected publications

*''Thomas of Lancaster, 1307-22: A Study in the Reign of Edward II''. (Oxford, 1970) *"The English Peasantry and the Demands of the Crown, 1294-1341", ''Past and Present''. Vol Supplement No. 1 (1975) *"Trade, Industry and the Wealth of King Alfred", ''Past and Present''. Vol 123 (1989) *''Simon de Montfort''. (Cambridge, 1994)
pbk reprint'' 'An Infinite Multitude of Nobles': Quality, Quantity and Politics in the Pre-Reform Parliaments of Henry III''
in ''Thirteenth Century England'', vii (1999), pp. 17–46
"Power and prosperity in the Age of Bede and Beowulf"
''Proceedings of the British Academy''. (2002)
''The Origins of the English Parliament, 924-1327''
(Oxford, 2010)

References

External links

Old home page
at Exeter College
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The Origins of the English Parliament, 924-1327
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