Nigel Saul
Encyclopedia
Professor Nigel Saul is a British
academic
who was formerly the Head of the Department of History
at Royal Holloway, University of London
(RHUL). He is recognised as one of the leading experts in the history of medieval England.
Professor Saul has written numerous books including Knights and Esquires, The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century (Oxford, 1981), and The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England (Oxford, 1997). His major biography Richard II (Yale, 1997) was the product of ten years' work and was acclaimed by P. D. James
as "unlikely to be surpassed in scholarship, comprehensiveness, or in the biographer's insight into his subject's character".
He has served as Honorary President of the Royal Holloway's Conservative Future
Society.
United Kingdom
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academic
Academia
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who was formerly the Head of the Department of History
History
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at Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London
Royal Holloway, University of London is a constituent college of the University of London. The college has three faculties, 18 academic departments, and about 8,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from over 130 different countries...
(RHUL). He is recognised as one of the leading experts in the history of medieval England.
Professor Saul has written numerous books including Knights and Esquires, The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century (Oxford, 1981), and The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England (Oxford, 1997). His major biography Richard II (Yale, 1997) was the product of ten years' work and was acclaimed by P. D. James
P. D. James
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL , commonly known as P. D. James, is an English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh.-Life and career:James...
as "unlikely to be surpassed in scholarship, comprehensiveness, or in the biographer's insight into his subject's character".
He has served as Honorary President of the Royal Holloway's Conservative Future
Conservative Future
Conservative Future, abbreviated to CF, is the youth movement of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom for members aged up to 30 years old.Founded in 1998, Conservative Future is the largest political organisation on British campuses...
Society.
Selected publications
- The Three Richards (Hambledon and London, 2005)
- Death, Art and Memory in Medieval England. The Cobham Family and their Monuments 1300-1500 (Oxford, 2001)
- Richard II (New Haven and London, 1997)
- 'Richard II and the Vocabulary of Kingship', English Historical Review, cx (1995)
- Scenes From Provincial Life. Knightly Families in Sussex 1280-1400 (Oxford, 1986)
- Knights and Esquires. The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century (Oxford, 1981)
- English Church Monuments in the Middle Ages. History and Representation (Oxford, 2009)