{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}} '''Stephen Church''' is a writer and professor of medieval history at the University of Lincoln<ref>https://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/807aaf54-a0cf-4cdb-846a-b9d5abcb198e</ref> and is an expert on King John.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/professor-gives-king-s-ely-historians-a-magna-carta-masterclass-as-part-of-school-s-medieval-week-1-4340744|title=''Professor gives King's Ely historians a Magna Carta masterclass as part of school's medieval week'' – Ely Standard Pearce.S 8 December 2015|work=Ely Standard |date=8 December 2015|accessdate=1 November 2018 |last1=Pearce |first1=Seb }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.TMJ.5.110985?journalCode=tmj|title=''King John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant (by Stephen Church)'' review by Maddicott.J.R ''The Medieval Journal'' Online ISSN 2033-5393|journal=The Mediaeval Journal|date=January 2016|volume=6|issue=1|pages=139–141|doi=10.1484/J.TMJ.5.110985|accessdate=1 November 2018|last1=Maddicott|first1=J. R.|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In 2015 his book ''King John: England, Magna Carta, and the Making of a Tyrant'' was one of the Financial Times best books of the year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/dbbe9112-940a-11e5-b190-291e94b77c8f|title=''The FT's best books of 2015'' – Financial Times|work=Financial Times |date=27 November 2015|accessdate=1 November 2018}}</ref>
==Career== Church is an expert in Medieval History, specifically the 12th Century<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/professor-stephen-church/|title=Professor Stephen Church – Gresham College|accessdate=1 November 2018}}</ref> and works at the University of Lincoln which he joined in 2023 after working for twenty-eight years at the University of East Anglia.<ref>https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-church</ref> He completed his postgraduate work in London. He is also a trustee of the Allen Brown Memorial Trust, where he organised the conference and edited the proceedings of Anglo-Norman Studies between 2020 and 2024.<ref>https://boydellandbrewer.com/books/series/anglo-norman-studies/</ref> The Trust also gives conference bursaries for postgraduate students and sponsors sessions at other conferences and a postgraduate reading group.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regid=1008915&subid=0|title=Allen Brown Memorial Trust – Charity Commission|accessdate=1 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nkQRlyRVR6sC&q=%22professor+stephen+church%22&pg=PP15|title=Bates.D ''Anglo-Norman Studies XXXV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2012'' ISBN 9781843838579|isbn=9781843838579|accessdate=1 November 2018|last1=Bates|first1=David|year=2013|publisher=Boydell Press }}</ref>
He has written more than thirty articles edited seven collections of essays, two medieval documents, and written three monographs on a variety of topics to do with the period 1000 to 1300<ref>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8829-0019</ref> His most substantial works have been on the subject of King John and Magna Carta.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cofe-worcester.org.uk/news/2016/10/13/service-commemorate-800th-anniversary-king-johns-death/|title=''Service to Commemorate 800th Anniversary of King John's Death'' – Church of England Diocese of Worcester p.13 October 2016|accessdate=1 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/14322979.Cathedral_conference_with_international_speakers_will_mark_800th_anniversary_of_King_John_s_burial/|title=''Cathedral conference with international speakers will mark 800th anniversary of King John's burial'' – Worcester News Mason.V p.4 March 2016|date=4 March 2016 |accessdate=1 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://royalhistsoc.org/calendar/anthem-school-history-conference/|title=Anthem School History Conference – Royal Historical Society|accessdate=1 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scottishlegal.com/article/edinburgh-debate-to-discuss-magna-carta-and-europe|title=''Edinburgh debate to discuss Magna Carta and Europe'' – Scottish Legal News p.9 October 2015|date=9 October 2015 |accessdate=1 November 2018}}</ref> Church has been regularly acknowledged as strong supporter of fellow Historians in their writing<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yA1zCgAAQBAJ&q=%22Professor+Stephen+Church%22&pg=PR13|title=Yoshikawa.NK ''Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture'' ISBN 9781843844013|isbn=9781843844013|accessdate=1 November 2018|last1=Yoshikawa|first1=Naoë Kukita|year=2015|publisher=Boydell & Brewer }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yw5zCgAAQBAJ&q=%22Professor+Stephen+Church%22&pg=PP8|title=Worby.S ''Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century England'' ISBN 9780861933389|isbn=9780861933389|accessdate=1 November 2018|last1=Worby|first1=Sam|year=2015|publisher=Boydell & Brewer }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ef4TaBZ4w4C&q=%22Professor+Stephen+Church%22&pg=PR8|title=Jarrett.AJ ''Rulers and Ruled in Frontier Catalonia, 880–1010: Pathways of Power'' ISBN 9780861933099|isbn=9780861933099|accessdate=1 November 2018|last1=Jarrett|first1=Jonathan Andrew|year=2010|publisher=Boydell & Brewer }}</ref> and has lectured in Europe on the subject of the Plantagenet Empire.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sfbh.hypotheses.org/579|title=Stephen Church: Succession and Interregnum in the Lands of the Angevins (02/11) at Sorbonne University – Research House|date=2017 |doi=10.58079/u151 |accessdate=1 November 2018 |last1=Anh-Dao Bui Tran }}</ref> In 2010 he co-led with Professor Elisabeth Tyler (University of York) two reading groups which aimed to read Orderic Vitalis's ''Historica ecclesiastica'' from start to finish and reflect on its content.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=743gDQAAQBAJ&q=%22Professor+Stephen+Church%22&pg=PP1|title=Rozier.C, Roach.D, Gasper.E.M.G, Van Houts.E ''Orderic Vitalis: Life, Works and Interpretations'' ISBN 978-1783271252|isbn=9781783271252|accessdate=1 November 2018|last1=Rozier|first1=Charles C.|last2=Roach|first2=Daniel|last3=Gasper|first3=Giles Edward Murray|last4=Hout|first4=Elizabeth van|year=2016|publisher=Boydell & Brewer }}</ref> In 2015 he appeared on Saturday Extra on Australian station ABC Radio with Nicholas Cowdery to discuss why does Magna Carta still matter,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/magna-carta/6538988|title=Saturday Extra – ABC Radio|website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=12 June 2015|accessdate=1 November 2018}}</ref> and co-presented the BBC programme The Last Journey of the Magna Carta King, part of the BBC ''Taking Liberties'' season, with archaeologist Dr Ben Robinson.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-31007875|title=Fresh clues to King John's lost treasure in East Anglia – BBC News|work=BBC News|access-date=1 November 2018}}</ref>
==Publications== <ref>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8829-0019</ref>
===Books=== * 2026 - The Angevin World, 1154-1204: New Interpretations (with Laura Cleaver and Matthew Strickland) {{ISBN|9781837654406}}. * 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 - Anglo-Norman Studies, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 {{ISSN|0954-9927}} * 2017 – ''Henry III: A Simple and God-Fearing King'' {{ISBN|9780141977997}} * 2015 – ''King John: England, Magna Carta, and the Making of a Tyrant'' {{ISBN|9780230772458}} * 2015 – ''King John and the Road to Magna Carta'' {{ISBN|9780465092994}} * 2007 – ''King John: New Interpretations'' {{ISBN|9780851159478}} * 2007 – ''Dialogus de Scaccario, and Constitutio Domus Regis The Dialogue of the Exchequer, and The Disposition of the Royal Household (Oxford Medieval Texts)'' {{ISBN|9780199258611}} * 2001 – ''The Pakenham Cartulary for the Manor of Ixworth Thorpe, Suffolk, c.1250-c.1320 (17) (Suffolk Charters)'' {{ISBN|9780851158358}} * 1999 – ''The Household Knights of King John'' {{ISBN|9780521553193}} * 1994 – ''Medieval Knighthood V (with Ruth Harvey)'' {{ISBN|9780851156286}}
===Selected published articles=== * 2025 - 'Keeping up appearances: penance and peace-making in the Plantagenet family at the end of the "war without love", 1174-5', Studies in Renaissance and Medieval Sources, 4th series, 1 (2025), 99-137. (This is an open access article made available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International Licence.) * 2022 - 'The "Angevin Empire" (1150-1204): A twelfth-century union', Unions and Divisions: New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, ed. Paul Srodecki, Norbert Kersken, and Rimvydas Petrauskas (Abingdon: Routledge, 2022), pp. 68–82. * 2022 - 'Nobility and aristocracy' (with Daniel Booker) The Cambridge Companion to the Age of William the Conqueror, ed. Benjamin Pohl (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 163–84. * 2022 - 'Henri III et Le Maine' in Les Plantagenêts et Le Maine, ed. Martin Aurell, Ghislain Baury, Vincent Carriol, and Laurent Maillet (Rennes, France: University of Rennes Press, 2022), pp. 84–91 * 2021 - 'Jean sans Terre et le gouvernement par un étranger: l’exemple du Poitou', Gouverner l’empire Plantagenêt (1152-1224) Autorité, symboles, idéologie Collection Colloques Patrimoines en région, ed. Martin Aurell (Nantes, France: University of Nantes Press, 2021), pp. 312–25. * 2020 - ‘The date and place of King John’s birth together with a codicil on his name', Notes & Queries, 67.3 (2020), 1-8. * 2019 - 'When does advice become Criticism? Criticising John Lackland before Magna Carta', in Kritik am Herrscher, ed. Karina Kellerman and Alheydis Plassmann (Bonn: Bonn University Press, 2019), pp. 377-92. * 2018 - ‘The dating and making of Magna Carta and the peace of June 1215’, in Staufen and Plantagenets: Two Empires in Comparison, ed. Alheydis Plassmann and Dominik Büschken (Bonn, Germany: Bonn University Press, 2018), pp. 53–69. * 2018 - 'King John’s books, Richard Marsh, and the interdict proclaimed in 1208 on England and Wales’, in Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World: Manuscripts, Makers and Readers, c.1066-c.1250, ed. Laura Cleaver and Andrea Worm (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2018), pp. 149–65. * 2017 – ''Political Discourse at the Court of Henry II and the Making of the New Kingdom of Ireland: The Evidence of John’s Title dominus Hibernie'' – '''History''' pg.808–823 ISSN 0018-2648 * 2010 – ''King John’s Testament and the Last Days of his Reign'' – '''English Historical Review''' pg.505–528 ISSN 1477-4534 * 2009 – ''The care of the royal tombs in English cathedrals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the case of the effigy of King John at Worcester'' – '''The Antiquaries Journal''' ISSN 1758-5309 * 2008 – ''Paganism in conversion age Anglo Saxon England: the evidence of Bede's Ecclesiastical History reconsidered'' – '''History''' pg.162–180 ISSN 1468-229X * 2007 – ''Aspects of the royal itinerary in twelfth-century England'' – '''Thirteenth Century England''' pg.31–45 ISSN 0269-6967 * 1995 – ''The rewards of royal service in the household of King John: a dissenting opinion'' – '''English Historical Review''' pg.277–302 ISSN 1477-4534 * 1994 – ''The earliest English muster roll, 18/19 December 1215'' – '''Historical Research''' pg.1–17 ISSN 1468-2281
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