Professor Mark Bailey

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Biography

Professor Mark Bailey is the Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of East Anglia, and between 2011 and 2020 was High Master of St Paul’s School, London. His research interests are the economic and social history of England between 1200 and 1500. In 2019 he was the James Ford Lecturer in British History at Oxford University and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Qualifications:

BA Hons in Economic History, Durham University

PhD in History, University of Cambridge

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

‘The transformation of customary tenure in southern England c.1300 to c.1550’, Agricultural History Review, 62 , 2014

BOOK CHAPTERS

'Sir John de Wingfield and the foundation of Wingfield College’, in P. Bloore and E. Martin, eds., Wingfield College and its Patrons. Piety and prestige in medieval Suffolk (Woodbridge) , 2015
‘The myth of the seigniorial reaction in England, c.1350 to c.1380’, in M. Kowaleski, L. Langdon and P. Schofield, eds., Peasants and Lords in the Medieval Economy. Essays in honour of B.M.S. Campbell (Turnhout) , 2015
‘The Plowman’, in S.H. Rigby and A. Minnis, eds., Historians on Chaucer: the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (Oxford) , 2014

OTHER

The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England. From Bondage to Freedom (Woodbridge) , 2014

Past courses taught

The catastrophic 14th century | Summer Programme course

The catastrophic 14th century | Weekend Courses

The catastrophic 14th century | Summer Programme course

The catastrophic 14th century | Weekend Courses

The catastrophic 14th century | Summer Programme course

The Black Death | Summer Programme course

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