Dr. Charles West, M.A. (Birmingham), Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Lecturer in Medieval History [Early Medieval Europe; social, cultural and economic transformation]
Email: c.m.west@sheffield.ac.uk
Room: Jessop West: 3.10 | Telephone: 0114 22 22608
Office Hours, Spring 2011-12: Tuesdays 13:00-15:00
| Biography |
Charles joined Sheffield's History Department in September 2008. Subsequent to a BA in History from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Charles studied at Birmingham University for an MPhil, before returning to Cambridge for his doctoral research. Before arriving at Sheffield, he held a Junior Research Fellowship at Hertford College, Oxford (2007-8).
| Membership of Professional Bodies |
Charles is a member of the Royal Historical Society, and an associated member of LAMOP (Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris).
| Research |
Current Research
Charles is currently working on a monograph provisionally entitled Reframing the Feudal Revolution, as well as co-translating Archbishop Hincmar´s subtle De Divortio Lotharii Regis into English. His next project considers the role of secrecy in early medieval concepts of the public.
Research Interests
Charles's research interests concern the history of early medieval western Europe, including the British Isles, from around 700-1200.
| Administrative Roles and Responsibilities |
Charles is Deputy Admissions Tutor (Semester 1) and Senior Admissions Tutor (Semester 2), as well as the Department's Schools and Colleges Liaison.
| Selected Publications |
- 'The significance of the Carolingian advocate', Early Medieval Europe 17 (2009), pp. 186-206 (winner of the Early Medieval Europe Essay Prize 2009)
- 'Unauthorised miracles in mid-ninth-century Dijon and the Carolingian Church reforms', Journal of Medieval History 36 (2010), pp.295-311
- 'Urban populations and associations', in J.Crick and E.van Houts (eds.), A social history of England, 900-1200 (Cambridge, 2011), pp.198-207
- 'Legal culture in tenth-century Lotharingia', in C.Leyser, D.Rollason and H.Williams (eds.), England and the Continent in the Tenth Century (Turnhout, 2011)
- 'Principautés et territoires, comtes et comtés', in M.Gaillard, M. Margue, A. Dierkens and H. Pettiau (eds.), De la Mer du Nord à la Méditerranée. Francia Media, une région au cœur de l’Europe (c. 840 – c. 1050) (Luxembourg, 2011), pp.131-150
- 'Evaluating Conflict at Court: a West Frankish perspective', in M.Becher and A.Plassmann (eds.), Streit am Hof im frühen Mittelalter (Bonn, 2011), pp.317-330
- 'Dynastic Historical Writing', in S. Foot and C.Robinson (eds.), The Oxford History of Historical Writing, Volume II: 600-1400 (Oxford, forthcoming 2012)