Phillipp Schofield

Professor of Medieval History
BA (London), DPhil (Oxon) Photograph of Phillipp Schofield.

Contact

Email: prs@aber.ac.uk
Office: C57
Phone: 2660

Profile

Professor Phillipp Schofield BA (London), DPhil (Oxon) is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is a historian of late medieval English history, particularly social, economic, and demographic history.

Teaching Areas

In addition to his role as Head of the Department Professor Schofield teaches widely from the First Year Introductory and option modules to the core undergraduate modules Historians and the Writing of History, General Historical Problems, Survey modules, Skills, methods and sources, Dissertations as well as his Special Subject on Edward II.

Research

2010

  • 'Peasants and historians', seminar paper, University of Girona, February 2010
  • 'Explanatory models for famine in early fourteenth-century England', conference paper, University of Lleida, February 2010
  • 'Peasants and investment in law', Brighton University, International Agricultural History conference, September 2010

2009

  • 'Peasants and historians', seminar paper, Cardiff University, March 2009
  • 'Peasants and the use of law in medieval England', seminar, Sorbonne, Paris, April 2009
  • 'The estates of the Arundels in fifteenth-century Cornwall', conference in honour of John Hatcher, Cambridge, August 2009
  • 'Power in the European countryside from the middle ages to the present day', joint paper delivered at final conference of COST A35, Progressore, Girona, September 2009
  • 'Necessary fictions: trespass litigation in manorial courts', conference: Texte et Contexte, Paris, October 2009

Staff Publications

2010

  • 'Trespass litigation in the manor court in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries', in R. Goddard, J. Langdon and M. Müller (eds), Survival and discord in medieval society. Essays in honour of Christopher Dyer (Turnhout, 2010), pp. 145-60.
  • 'Economy', in L. Wilkinson, ed., A cultural history of childhood and family in the middle ages. vol. 2. (Berg, 2010), pp. 57-72.
  • With E. Gemmill and B. Dodds, 'Durham grain prices, 1278-1515', Archaeologia Aeliana, 5th series, XXXIX, pp. 307-27.

2009

  • With Thijs Lambrecht, Credit and the rural economy in North-western Europe, c. 1200-c.1800 (Brepols, 2009), pp. 196.
  • With Thijs Lambrecht, 'Introduction. Credit and the rural economy in North-western Europe, c. 1200-c.1800', in Schofield and Lambrecht, Credit and the rural economy in North-western Europe, c. 1200-c.1800 (Brepols, 2009), pp. 1-18.
  • 'Peasants and contract in the thirteenth century: village elites and the land market in eastern England', in Schofield and Lambrecht, Credit and the rural economy in North-western Europe, c. 1200-c.1800 (Brepols, 2009), pp. 129-52.
  • With J. Burton and B. Weiler, eds, Thirteenth-century England xii (Boydell, 2009), xvii + 205 pp.
  • 'Conversion of rents in kind and in labour into cash in eastern England (c.1050-c.1300)' in L. Feller, ed., Calculs et rationalités dans la seigneurie médiévales: les conversions et redevances entre xie et xve siècles (Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2009), pp. 55-71.
  • 'Die Kreditvergabe im englischen manor court 1250-1350. Formen und Funktionen' in G. Clemens, ed., Kreditbeziehungen und Netzwerkbildungen. Die soziale Praxis des Kredits (2009), pp. 21-36.
  • 'Rural families in medieval Europe', in E. English, ed., Blackwell's Companion to Medieval Europe (Blackwells, 2009) , pp. 111-29.

2008

  • 'The social economy of the medieval village', Economic History Review, 61 S1, pp. 38-63.
  • 'Regional price differentials in fifteenth-century England', in Richard Britnell and Ben Dodds, eds, Agriculture and Rural Society after the Black Death. Common themes and regional variations (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2008), pp. 40-55.
  • With B. van Bavel, eds, The development of leasehold in northwestern Europe, c. 1200-1600 (Brepols, 2008), 213 pp.
  • With B. van Bavel, 'Introduction. The emergence of lease and leasehold in a comparative perspective. Definitions, causes and consequences', in van Bavel and Schofield, eds, The development of leasehold in northwestern Europe, c. 1200-1600 (Brepols, 2008), pp. 11-30.
  • with C.C. Dyer), 'Estudios recientes sobre la historia agrarian y rural medieval Británica', in I. Alfonso, ed., La Historia rural de las sociedades medievales Europeas (Universitat de València, 2008), pp. 31-63.

2007

  • 'Lordship and the peasant economy, c.1250-c.1400: Robert Kyng and the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds', in C. Dyer, P. Coss and C. Wickham (eds), Rodney Hilton's Middle Ages. An exploration of historical themes (Past and Present Supplement, 2007), pp. 53-68.
  • 'Respuestas a la carestía y al hambre en el mundo rural inglés en los siglos XIII y XIV', Hipólito R.Oliva Herrer and Pere Benito I Monclús, eds,Crisis de Subsistencia y crisis agrarias en la edad media (Universidad de Sevilla, 2007), pp. 229-43
  • 'Strátegies économiques et sociales des élites rurales anglaises aux derniers siècles du Moyen Âge', in. F. Menant and J-P Jessen, eds,Les élites rurales dans l'Europe médiévale et moderne (Flaran 27, University of Rennes, 2007), pp. 229-41.
  • withBurton, J., Stöber, K, and Weiler, B. (eds.), Thirteenth-Century England XI. Proceedings of the 2005 Gregynog Conference, (Boydell & Brewer, 2007), xvi + 229 pp.
  • with C.C. Dyer), 'Recent work on the agrarian history of medieval Britain', in I. Alfonso, ed., The rural history of medieval European societies. Trends and perspectives (Brepols, Turnhout, 2007), pp. 21-55

2006

  • 'Medieval Diet and Demography', in C.Woolgar, D.Serjeantson and T.Waldron (eds) Food in medieval England: diet and nutrition (Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 239-53.

2005

  • 'Intestat et testaments paysans en Angleterre et Pays de Galles au XIIIe siècle et au début du XIVe siècle', in N. Vivier, ed., Ruralité française et britannique, xiiie-xxe siècles. Approches comparées (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2005), pp. 207-18.
  • 'Manorial court rolls as a source for the peasant land market. Eastern England, c. 1250-c.1350', in L. Feller and C. Wickham, eds., Le marché de la terre au Moyen Âge (École Française de Rome, 2005), pp. 237-71.
  • 'The market in free land on the estates of Bury St Edmunds: sources and issues', in L. Feller and C. Wickham, eds., Le marché de la terre au Moyen Âge (École Française de Rome, 2005), pp. 273-95.

2004

  • 'Seigneurial exactions in eastern England', in M. Bourin and P. Martinez Sopeña, eds, Pour une anthropologie du prélèvement seigneurial dans les campagnes de l'Occident médiéval (XIe-XIVe siècle), dir. M. Bourin, P. Martinez, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2004.
  • 'Credit and Debt in the Medieval English Countryside', in Il Mercato della Terra. Secc. xiii-xviii, ( Monash University, Prato, 2004), pp. 785-96.
  • Making histories: historians and the practices of history , co-edited with Peter Lambert (Routledge, October 2004), pp. xii+305.
  • 'British economic history, c1880-c.1930', in Lambert and Schofield, eds, Making histories, pp. 65-77
  • 'Marxism and History', in Lambert and Schofield, eds, Making histories, pp. 180-91.

2003

  • Peasant and community in medieval England (Palgrave, 2003), pp. vii+279.
  • with C.C. Dyer, 'Estudios recientes sobre la historia agraria y rural medieval británica', Historia Agraria, 31 (2003), 13-33.

2002

  • Credit and debt in medieval England, c. 1180-c.1320 , co-edited with N.J. Mayhew (Oxbow, 2002), pp. x+164.
  • 'Introduction. Credit and debt in medieval England', in Schofield and Mayhew, eds, Credit and debt in medieval England, pp. 1-18.
  • 'Access to credit in the medieval English countryside', in Schofield and Mayhew, eds, Credit and debt in medieval England, pp. 106-26.
  • 'Family and village community. England, 1100-1500', in S.H. Rigby, ed., Blackwell Companion to later medieval Britain (Blackwell, 2002), pp. 26-46.

2001

  • 'Extranei and the tenure of customary land on a Westminster Abbey manor in the fifteenth century', Agricultural History Review, 49, Part 1 (2001), pp. 1-16.

1998

  • 'L'endettement et le crédit dans la campagne anglaise au moyen âge', in M. Berthe, ed., Endettement paysan et crédit rural dans l'Europe médiévale et moderne. Actes des XVIIes journées internationales d'histoire de l'abbaye de Flaran, Septembre 1995 ( Toulouse, 1998), pp. 69-97.
  • 'Peasants and the manor court: gossip and litigation in a Suffolk village at the close of the thirteenth century', Past and Present, 159 (1998), pp. 3-42.

1997

  • 'Dearth, debt and the local land market in a late thirteenth century Suffolk village', Agricultural History Review, 45, part 1, (1997), pp. 1-17.

1996

  • 'The late medieval frankpledge system: an Essex case study' in Z. Razi and R.M. Smith (eds.), Medieval society and the manor court ( Oxford, 1996), pp. 408-49.
  • 'Tenurial change and the availability of customary land in a later medieval community', Economic History Review, XLIX, part 2, (1996), pp. 250-67.

1994

  • 'Frankpledge lists as indices of migration and mortality', Local Population Studies, 52 (1994), pp. 23-29.

Forthcoming

  • 'Serfdom and mobility in medieval Europe', in C. Moatti and W. Kaiser, eds, La liberté de circuler (Paris, 2009)
  • 'Childhood and family: the economy', in L. Wilkinson, ed., A History of Childhood. Vol. 3. The Middle Ages (Berg, 2009)
  • 'M.M. Postan and the medieval peasant economy', in J. Drendel (ed.), Postan and Duby in Comparative Perspective (Brill, forthcoming 2009/10)
  • With Thijs Lambrecht, Credit and the rural economy in North-western Europe, c. 1200-c.1800 (Brepols, 2009/10)
  • With Thijs Lambrecht, 'Introduction. Credit and the rural economy in North-western Europe, c. 1200-c.1800', in Schofield and Lambrecht, Credit and the rural economy in North-western Europe, c. 1200-c.1800 (Brepols, 2009/10)
  • 'Peasants and contract in the thirteenth century: village elites and the land market in eastern England', in Schofield and Lambrecht, Credit and the rural economy in North-western Europe, c. 1200-c.1800 (Brepols, 2009/10)