Uncovering Lincoln’s Magna Carta – Professor Stephen Church

On Saturday 4 May as part of Lincoln Festival of History, Professor Stephen Church, Professor in Medieval Studies, will be holding a lecture entitled Uncovering Lincoln’s Magna Carta – exploring the wider context surrounding the great charter.

A world renowned scholar of medieval history, Professor Church joined Lincoln in 2023 from the University of East Anglia, where he had been Professor of Medieval History. Professor Church has been director of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies and an associate editor of History, the journal of the Historical Association.

His research is primarily focused on the period 1000 to 1300, concentrating on issues surrounding rulership and the exercise of power in the French-speaking world of North-Western Europe. His main publications have been in this area, though, like all medievalists, this focus does not provide the only outlet for his research interests. He has published on subjects as diverse as Anglo-Saxon paganism, twelfth-century administrative records, fourteenth-century landholding, and on the preservation of sepulchral monuments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The lecture will commence at 12 noon, please arrive to be seated by 11.45am.

Tickets and further information can be found here.