Christine Carpenter (historian)


Mary Christine Carpenter is an English historian who serves as professor of medieval English history at the University of Cambridge.

Early life

Carpenter was born on 7 December 1946 in Oxford, England.

Academia

Carpenter received her Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Newnham College, Cambridge. She is author and editor of a number of English history books and papers.
Carpenter's research interests focus on the political and constitutional history of England from 1066 to, and in the political, social, economic, religious, and cultural history of noble and gentry landowners in that period.
Carpenter supervises postgraduate work on government, politics and landed society from to 1500 and at the undergraduate level she teaches all aspects of English history from to 1500.
Carpenter is the director of an Arts and Humanities Research Council–funded project to complete the calendaring of the 15th-century Inquisition post mortems, and one of the editors of the Cambridge University Press Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, in addition to serving on other editorial committees.
In June 2012, Carpenter was selected to give the Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford in the 2015–2016 academic year.

Career