Professor Levi Roach

My teaching and research interests lie in the history of western Europe (in particular, England, Germany and northern Italy) in the early and high Middle Ages. My research monographs include Kingship and Consent in Anglo-Saxon England (Whitfield Prize 2014 proxime accessit); King Æthelred 'the Unready' (Longman-History Today Prize 2017; Labarge Prize 2017); and Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium (Princeton University Press, 2021). I have also recently published a popular history of the Normans, Empires of the Normans.

My research has been supported by the AHRC (2017–19) and the Freunde der MGH e.V. (2022). Future projects include an edition of the Anglo-Saxon charters from continental houses, for the British Academy Anglo-Saxon Charters series; and a new edition of the East Frankish/German royal charters 911–1002 for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. I fully expect the latter task to take much of my remaining career.

I can be found on Bluesky and Twitter as @ProfLRoach. For trade writing, I am represented by Laurie Robertson at Peters Fraser + Dunlop.

Biography:

I studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, completing my PhD at the former in 2011. My doctoral work focused on royal assemblies in later Anglo-Saxon England and a revised version of my thesis was published by the Cambridge University Press in October 2013. From 2011–12 I held a Research Fellowship (Title A Fellowship) at St John's College, Cambridge. In 2012, I took up a lectureship at the University of Exeter; and in 2024, I was appointed to a personal chair in medieval history and diplomatic.

Research supervision:

I am happy to supervise students working on the religious and political history of the British Isles and western Europe between c.800 and c.1200, particularly in the following areas:

• Kingship and governance
• Charters and diplomatic
• Religious reform
• Apocalypticism and prophecy
• Feudalism and the 'Feudal Revolution/Transformation'