{{Short description|English historian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Use British English|date=October 2016}} '''Rosemary Elizabeth Horrox''',<ref name="auto">Horrox, R.E., ''The Extent and Use of Crown Patronage under Richard III'' (unpublished PhD, Cambridge University, 1977), ii</ref> {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|FRHistS}} (born 21 May 1951) is an [[English people|English]] [[historian]], specialising in the [[political culture]] of [[late medieval England]], [[patronage]] and [[society]].<ref name="cam.ac.uk">{{cite web|url=https://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/content/dr-rosemary-horrox|title=Dr Rosemary Horrox|accessdate=9 April 2016}}</ref>
She is a [[Fellow (Oxbridge)|Fellow]] and retired Director of Studies in History at [[Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge|Fitzwilliam College]] at the [[University of Cambridge]].<ref name="cam.ac.uk"/> She is an affiliated lecturer in history at Cambridge's [[Institute of Continuing Education]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr Rosemary Horrox |url=https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/tutor/dr-rosemary-horrox |website=Institute of Continuing Education |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=27 February 2021 |language=en |date=3 December 2015}}</ref>
She studied at [[South Park High School, Lincoln]] and received her [[Bachelor of Arts]] (BA), [[Master of Arts]] (MA) and [[Doctor of Philosophy]] (PhD) from the [[University of Cambridge]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/components/tutors/?view=tutor&id=288|title=University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education – University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education|accessdate=9 April 2016}}</ref> the latter being a study of royal patronage under [[King Richard III of England]]. She studied for this at [[Newnham College]] under the supervision of [[G.L. Harriss]], whose suggestion it had been, and it was awarded in March 1977.<ref name="auto"/> More recently, her interests have expanded into the relationship between [[Local government|local-]] and [[central government]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.ac.uk/history-online/teachers/teacher/horrox-rosemary-e|title=Dr. Rosemary E. Horrox|accessdate=9 April 2016}}</ref> the [[Black Death]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719034985/|title=Manchester University Press – The Black Death|work=Manchester University Press|accessdate=9 April 2016}}</ref> medieval female authority, and queenship. As well as lecturing full-time at Cambridge, she also lectures privately<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wuffings.co.uk/education/programmes/2013/13_09_21-Horrox.html|title=Wuffing Education for Anglo-Saxon Day Schools at Sutton Hoo|accessdate=9 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.halh.org.uk/spring-meeting.html|title=Spring Meeting|work=Hertfordshire Association for Local History|accessdate=9 April 2016}}</ref> and for [[high school]]s,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kehs.org.uk/Dr-Rosemary-Horrox-Medieval-Queenship|title=Dr Rosemary Horrox – Medieval Queenship|accessdate=9 April 2016}}</ref> and campaigned against the dissolution of the [[Advanced Subsidiary level|AS Level]] in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/9835208/AS-levels-must-not-be-scrapped.html|title=AS-levels must not be scrapped|date=30 January 2013|work=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=9 April 2016}}</ref>
During the 2012–15 controversy surrounding the [[Exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England|burial place of the recently discovered bones]] of Richard III, she supported the claim of [[York]] to be the most fitting final resting place for the last [[Plantaganet]] king, saying that the dead king's "self-identification with the North is reflected in his plans for a chantry of 100 priests in York Minster, where he surely hoped to be buried."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10331395/A-sordid-song-and-dance-over-Richard-IIIs-bones.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925063309/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10331395/A-sordid-song-and-dance-over-Richard-IIIs-bones.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 September 2013|title=A sordid song and dance over Richard III's bones|date=24 September 2013|work=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=9 April 2016}}</ref><ref>Christopher Howse, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925063309/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10331395/A-sordid-song-and-dance-over-Richard-IIIs-bones.html A sordid song and dance over Richard III’s bones], ''The Daily Telegraph'' (24 September 2013).</ref>
She is a Fellow of the [[Royal Historical Society]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://5hm1h4aktue2uejbs1hsqt31.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/RHS-Fellows-H.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=5 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304222436/http://5hm1h4aktue2uejbs1hsqt31.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/RHS-Fellows-H.pdf |archivedate=4 March 2016 }}</ref> and [[Editor-in-chief|General Editor]] of the [[Cambridgeshire Records Society]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cambsrecordsociety.co.uk/|title=Cambridgeshire Records Society|accessdate=9 April 2016}}</ref> and is a general editor for [[The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275-1504|The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England]] project, which transcribed, translated, and published digitally and in print, the [[Rolls of Parliament]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14128|title=The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, 1275–1504 (Edited by Rosemary Horrox) 9781843837992 – Boydell & Brewer|publisher=Boydell & Brewer}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/parliament-rolls-medieval|title=Parliament Rolls of Medieval England}}</ref>
==Select bibliography== *''Cambridge Social History of England, 1200–1500'' editor with [[Mark Ormrod (historian)|Mark Ormrod]] (Cambridge, 2006). *''Much Heaving and Shoving: Late-Medieval Gentry and their Concerns: Essays for Colin Richmond'' editor, with Margaret Aston (Chipping, 2005). *‘Service’ in ''Fifteenth Century Attitudes: Perceptions of Society in Late Medieval England'', and editor, (Cambridge, 1994). *‘Personality and Politics’ in ''The Wars of the Roses: Problems In Focus'', ed. [[A. J. Pollard]] (Basingstoke, 1995). *''Richard III: A Study of Service'' (Cambridge, 1989). *''The Black Death'' editor (Manchester University Press, 1994)
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