Dr Louisa Taylor

BA (Birmingham), MPhil (Birmingham), PhD (UCL)

Module Coordinator

• AB1 Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800 (HY11420)
• AB1 Making History (HY20120)
• AB1 Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263 (HY22120)
• AB2 (Re)writing the past: Medieval chronicles and sagas c. 1000-1300 (HY24120)
• AB1 Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263 (HY32120)

Tutor

• AB1 Culture, Society and the Victorians (HY29320)
• AB1 Culture, Society and the Victorians (HY39320)
• AB1 Dissertation (HY30340)
• AB2 Europe and the World, 1000-2000 (HY12420)
• AB1 Research Methods and Professional Skills in History (HYM0120)
• AB2 ‘Hands on’ History: Sources and their Historians (HY10420)

Lecturer

• AB1 England in Context in the Long Thirteenth Century (HYM2020)
• AB2 Europe and the World, 1000-2000 (HY12420)
• AB1 Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800 (HY11420)

Dr Taylor specialises in the study of elite culture in high medieval England, Scandinavia and Iceland using comparative approaches. She has worked on a diverse range of topics, including kingship, treason, elite behavioural ideals and norms, the use of violence, civil war, and clerical armsbearing. She is currently working on a book which will explore the ideals and norms which governed the behaviour of elite warriors during conflict in high medieval England, Norway, and Denmark. The aim of this research is to provice a new perspective on how the culture of the Norwegian and Danish elite developed across the high medieval period by reconsidering the traditional view that the Scandinavian region was a passive recipient of western European cultural influences, such as the ideals of chivalry and courtliness, from the twelfth century onwards.