David Green, PhD (University of Nottingham)
Senior Lecturer
Team Leader in British Studies
dgreen@harlaxton.ac.uk

Dr Green is a graduate of the universities of Exeter (BA) and Nottingham (MA, PhD). Before joining the British Studies team at Harlaxton in 2007 he lived and worked in England, Scotland and Ireland, lecturing at the universities of Sheffield, St Andrews, and Trinity College, Dublin.

Research Interests

My research influences and is influenced by my teaching. It focuses on the later middle ages in Britain, Ireland and France, and deals with themes central to the British Studies course such as kingship, colonialism and concepts of national identity. Much of my published work to date has evolved from my doctoral research on the career and retinue of Edward the Black Prince (c.1330-c.1376). A recent article, an investigation of an intriguing account of Edward’s death in Thomas Walsingham’s Chronica Maiora, took this area of research to its logical conclusion and me into new theoretical territory with a consideration of issues of masculinity, medicine, and chronicle analysis. Recently, I have also begun to extend the chronological and geographical scope of my work. My current research centres on two connected themes, the Hundred Years War, and later Plantagenet ‘colonialism’. This will result in a number of journal and encyclopaedia articles, some now in press, and a book for Yale University Press with the current working title The Hundred Years War: People and Nations. It will examine the impact of the war on a variety of social groups and national institutions.

I regularly speak and chair sessions at the annual meetings of the International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds, U.K.) and the International Conference on Medieval Studies (University of Western Michigan, U.S.A), and I have recently become a member of the Harlaxton Medieval Symposium Steering Committee. I discuss my research further at http://www.medievalists.net/2008/11/14/interview-with-david-green/.

 

Publications

Books

• Edward the Black Prince: Power in Medieval Europe (Longman, Medieval World Series, 2007) reviewed by Kelly Devries at
  http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23692.

• The Battle of Poitiers 1356 (2002; rev. ed. The History Press, 2008).
• The Black Prince (2001; rev. ed. The History Press, 2008).

• With Michael Jones and John Beckett, History at Nottingham: Training, Research and Departmental Life from the 1880s to the Present (Nottingham, 1995).

Articles

• ‘National Identities in the Hundred Years War’, Fourteenth Century England VI, ed. Chris Given-Wilson (Woodbridge, 2010), 115-29.

• ‘Medicine and Masculinity: Thomas Walsingham and the Death of the Black Prince’, Journal of Medieval History, 35 (2009), 34-51.
• ‘Lordship and Principality: Colonial Policy in Ireland and Aquitaine in the 1360s’, Journal of British Studies, 47 (2008), 3-29.

• ‘Edward the Black Prince and East Anglia: An Unlikely Association’, Fourteenth Century England III, ed. W.M. Ormrod (Woodbridge, 2004), 83-98.
• ‘Politics and Service with Edward the Black Prince’, The Age of Edward III, ed. J. Bothwell (York, 2001), 53-68.

• ‘The Dark Side of the Black Prince’, BBC History Magazine (December 2001).
• ‘The Later Retinue of Edward the Black Prince’ Nottingham Medieval Studies, 44 (2000), 141-51.

• ‘The Military Personnel of Edward the Black Prince’, Medieval Prosopography, 21 (2000), 133-52.

Encyclopaedia Entries

• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology, ed. Clifford J. Rogers (Oxford University Press, 2010): Sir John Chandos (d.1370); Edward the Black Prince (d.1376); Battle of Pontvallain (1370); Battle of La Rochelle (1372); Jean de Vienne, admiral of France (d.1396); Louis, duke of Bourbon (d.1410).
• Routledge International Encyclopaedia of Military History, ed. James Bradford (New York, 2006): William the Conqueror; Richard I; The Battle of Bannockburn; The Hundred Years War (2,000 words); King Edward III; The Siege of Harfleur, 1415.

• A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women, ed. Reina Pennington (Westport, Conn., 2003): Julienne du Guesclin; Lady Badlesmere.
• A Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England, ed. R. Fritze and William B. Robison, (Westport, Conn., 2002): Edward the Black Prince; The Reims Campaign, 1359-60; The Treaties of London, 1358-9; chevauchées; The Treaty of Brétigny-Calais, 1360.
• The Encyclopaedia of Prisoners of War and Internment, ed. Jonathan Vance (Santa Barbara, 2001): King Jean II of France; The Hundred Years War.