Professor George Garnett
About
Professor Garnett is a medievalist with interests ranging well into the early modern period. He has published a large study of the impact of the Norman Conquest on notions of kingship, succession, and tenure; a briefer introduction to the Conquest; and several essays on these and related themes. He also works on political thought in a more conventional sense: he has published an edition of Vindiciae, contra tyrannos, the highly influential sixteenth-century Huguenot resistance treatise, and a study of the role of providential history in the thought of the fourteenth-century Italian theorist and anti-papal publicist, Marsilius of Padua. He has contributed a number of entries to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and is currently completing a history of the Norman Conquest.
Expertise
- Medieval
- Medieval England
- Medieval Europe
- History of law
- Royal ceremonial
- Domesday Book
- Magna Carta
- Bayeux Tapestry
- Early modern political thought
Selected publications
- Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Three Tracts on City Government (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
- The Norman Conquest in English History, vol 1, A Broken Chain? (Oxford University Press, 2021)
- The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2009)
- Conquered England: Kingship, Succession, and Tenure, 1066-1166 (Oxford University Press, 2007)
- Marsilius of Padua and the 'Truth of History' (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Recent media work
Languages
English