Dr Stephen Marritt

Lecturer
Department of History (Medieval)
10 University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Tel. 0141 330 4511
E-mail: s.marritt@history.arts.gla.ac.uk

Office hours:  Monday 1pm - 2pm and Wednesday 12noon - 1pm
Research day:  Tuesday

Teaching

• Honours modules:
  • Anarchy & Society
  • The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154
  • Papal Power
• Postgraduate:
  • Medieval Palaeography

Research interests

British Isles and Northern European Eleventh and Twelfth Century Political and Ecclesiastical History with particular interests in the episcopacy and the reign of King Stephen in England.

Publications

• Coincidences of Names, Anglo-Scottish connections and Anglo-Saxon Society, in Scottish Historical Review 83, 2004, pp.150-170
• King Stephen and the Bishops, in  J. Gillingham (ed), 24, Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2001 (Anglo-Norman Studies, 2002), pp.129-44
• ‘Crowland Abbey and the provenance of Orderic Vitalis’s Scandinavian and Scottish material’. Notes and Queries, 251 (2006), 290-2.
• Drogo the Sheriff: a neglected lost romance tradition and Anglo-Norwegian relations in the twelfth century, Historical Research 80(208) 2007 pp.157-184 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2006.00375.x
• Bishop William Warelwrast of Exeter the 'first professional civil servant': Cornish and intellectual contexts, and the authorship of Quadripartitus 01/10/2007
• Reeds shaken by the wind? Bishops in local and regional politics in King Stephen’s reign’, forthcoming in King Stephen’s Reign (1135-1154), ed. P. Dalton and G.J. White (Boydell and Brewer, February, 2008)

Research students

• Richard Allen, The Norman episcopate and the emergence of the Norman state, 989-1110
• Kathryn Dutton, Count Geoffrey 'le Bel' of Anjou, 1129-1151
• Daniel Gerrard, Bishops and abbots as military leaders c.1000-c.1250 in England and Northern France
• Vanessa Traill (writing-up), The politcal, social and religious history of England and Normandy during the Norman and Angevin periods

Scholarly activities