Dr. Charles West

M.A. (Birmingham), Ph.D. (Cambridge)

Lecturer in Medieval History

Early Medieval Europe; social, cultural and economic transformation

Office Hours: Autumn 2013-14 - Wednesdays 9-10am; Thursdays 9-10am

c.m.west@sheffield.ac.uk

+44 (0)114 22 22608
 

Jessop West 3.10

Major Publications

Biography

Charles joined Sheffield's History Department in September 2008. Before arriving at Sheffield, he held a Junior Research Fellowship at Hertford College, Oxford (2007-8), and also spent six months as a visiting researcher at the Universite Paris | Panthéon-Sorbonne (2005-6).

Membership of Professional Bodies

Charles is a member of the Royal Historical Society, and an associated member of LAMOP (Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris).

Research

Current Research

Charles is currently working on Reframing the Feudal Revolution: Political and Social Transformation between Marne and Moselle, c.800-c.1100 (Cambridge, forthcoming), as well as co-translating (with Dr Rachel Stone) Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims's 'On the Divorce of King Lothar II' into English (Manchester, forthcoming).

Research Interests

Charles's research interests concern the history of early medieval western Europe, including the British Isles, from around 700-1200.

Public Engagement and Impact

 To Follow.

Research Supervision and Teaching

 To Follow.

Current PhD Students

To Follow.

Administrative Roles and Responsibilities

Charles is Deputy Admissions Tutor (Semester 1) and Senior Admissions Tutor (Semester 2), as well as the Department's Schools and Colleges Liaison.

Selected Publications

- Reframing the Feudal Revolution. Social and political transformation between Marne and Moselle, c.800-1100 (Cambridge, forthcoming 2013)

- 'Dynastic Historical Writing' [Byzantium, China and the Latin West], in S. Foot and C. Robinson (eds.), The Oxford History of Historical Writing, Volume II: 600-1400 (Oxford, 2012).

- 'Count Hugh of Troyes and the territorial principality in early twelfth-century Western Europe', English Historical Review 127 (2012), 523-548.

'Evaluating Conflict at Court: a West Frankish perspective', in M. Becher et A. Plassmann (eds.), Streit am Hof im frühen Mittelalter (Göttingen, 2011), pp. 317–330.

- 'Principautés et territoires, comtes et comtés', in M. Gaillard, M. Margue, A. Dierkens and H. Pettiau (eds.), De la Mer du Nord à la Méditerranée. Francia Media, une région au cœur de l’Europe (c. 840 – c. 1050) (Luxembourg, 2011), pp.131-150.

- 'Legal culture in tenth-century Lotharingia', in C. Leyser, D. Rollason and H. Williams (eds.), England and the Continent in the Tenth Century (Turnhout, 2011).

- 'Urban populations and associations', in J.Crick and E.van Houts (eds.), A social history of England, 900-1200 (Cambridge, 2011), pp.198-207.

- 'Unauthorised miracles in mid-ninth-century Dijon and the Carolingian Church reforms', Journal of Medieval History 36 (2010), pp.295-311.

- 'The significance of the Carolingian advocate', Early Medieval Europe 17 (2009), pp. 186-206 (winner of the Early Medieval Europe Essay Prize 2009).