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Expertise Summary
I am interested in supervising any aspect of English social and economic history, especially of the period, c. 1250-1540. My particular research interests centre upon later medieval business and domestic and international commerce, particularly the use of credit to finance later medieval trade. I have also written on economic recession in fifteenth-century England. I have research interests in medieval urban society, with particular reference to medieval town courts and guilds. I have published extensively on women and commerce in the later middle ages, and supervise PhDs on women and work. I have published on medieval industries, especially coal mining in the Sherwood region, in the medieval period and am currently researching medieval town governments' 'management' of urban crafts and industries.
Teaching Summary
All of my teaching reflects my research interests and has grown directly out of my research and publications. I contribute lectures and seminars to the first-year medieval module, Making the Middle… read more
Research Summary
My research focuses on the English society and its economy in the later Middle Ages. Much of my work so far has concentrated upon medieval towns and their economies. My second monograph, entitled… read more
Recent Publications
RICHARD GODDARD and GEORGE SMALLEY, 2024. Economics and the cult of death in late medieval England: The guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546 Midland History. (In Press.)
RICHARD GODDARD, 2022. Was Commerce in Late Medieval Coventry Restricted by Regulation?. In: C. DYER, ed., Changing Approaches to Local History:: Warwickshire History and its Historians Dugdale Society.
RICHARD GODDARD, 2019. Journal of British Studies. 58(3), 495-518
Current Research
My research focuses on the English society and its economy in the later Middle Ages. Much of my work so far has concentrated upon medieval towns and their economies. My second monograph, entitled Credit and trade in later medieval England that examines the the use of credit to finance later medieval domestic trade. Recent articles and chapters have included studies of small towns and their role as constituent elements within the seigneurial manorial economy, English borough courts and commercial contraction and the impact of cycles of economic growth and decline upon the built environment of medieval towns, the Nottinghamshire coal industry in between c.1200-1540, medieval urban guilds and business networks and a chapter on Chaucer's Merchant in the Canterbury Tales.
Supervision
I welcome enquires from anyone wishing to undertake research on any aspect on English social or economic history of the later middle ages, with particular reference to medieval towns, medieval trade, credit and debt or women and their role in the medieval economy. I have supervised the following PhDs:
i) Judith Mills, Community and change: the town, people and administration of Nottingham between c.1400-1600
ii) Janice Musson, The Assize of Novel Disseisin, 1156-1223 (joint supervision with Gwilym Dodd)
iii) Mike Jefferson, Templar lands in Lincolnshire in the early fourteenth century (joint supervision with Gwilym Dodd)
iv) Alan Kissane, Lay Urban Identities in Late Medieval Lincoln 1288鈥�1400 (joint supervision with Rob Lutton)
v) Teresa Phipps, Women in later medieval Nottingham (joint supervision with Ross Balzaretti)
vi) Hannah Ingram, Archetypes and Individuals: Reconstructing the Users of the Westminster Statute Staple, 1485-1532 (joint supervision with Rob Lutton)
vii) Mariele Valci, The 'denari provisini' and the economy of the Roman commune, 1143-1389 (joint supervision with Neil Christie, University of Leicester)
viii) Chiara Ravera, Women and business in the Genoese colony of Chios, 1346-1566 (joint supervision with Ross Balzaretti)
ix) Esther Lewis, Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in later medieval Bristol (joint supervision with Rob Lutton)
x) Grace Owen, Manorial officers on the Glastonbury manors after the Black Death (joint supervision with Miriam Muller, University of Birmingham)
xi) Joe Peake, 'Waste' in later medieval England (joint supervision with Rob Lutton and Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham)
xii) Pam Powell, Commerce and politics in Chester, 1377-1413 (joint supervision with Gwilym Dodd)
xiii) Scott Lomax, Land use and industry in later medieval Nottingham (joint supervision with Chris King, Department of Classics and Archaeology)
xiv) Finn Cadell, The impact of the Black Death on manorial courts in England and Wales (joint supervision with Will Eves, School of Law)
xv) Megan Rousseau, Family dynamics in medieval Nottinghamshire (joint supervision with Sarah White, School of Law)
Past Research
I have written the following books:
- Lordship and medieval urbanization: Coventry, 1043 to 1355 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2004)
- With John Langdon and Miriam M眉ller (eds), Survival and Discord in medieval Society: Essays in honour of Christopher Dyer (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010)
- Credit and trade in later medieval England, 1353-1532 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016)
- With Teresa Phipps (eds), Town courts and urban society in late medieval England, 1250-1550 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2019)
I have written extensively on the following medieval economic and social history topics in academic journals and edited volumes:
- Urban society, real estate, and economy
- Fifteenth-century recession in England
- Medieval guilds, industries and crafts
- Medieval women and commerce, female merchants
- Medieval urban courts
Future Research
I have submitted an AHRC bid for the Risk: Climate Change and Commerce in North-Western Europe, 1265-1345 three-year research project. This will examine the link between climate change and commerce during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth-century in two major commercial centres in northwestern Europe, Douai and London. Furthermore i am currently researching the links between later medieval urban governments, or oligarchies, their 'management' of urban commerce and industry and the links to proto-industrialisation and Capitalism for a monograph.