Education
Carpenter received her Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Newnham College, Cambridge.
(The Wars of the Roses was a period of major crisis in Eng...)
The Wars of the Roses was a period of major crisis in English politics and in the lives of the English landowning classes. This book attempts to explain why the Wars occurred, and with what results, by placing them in the context of the ruling classes' expectations of kingship and governance at that time. The book draws on a large amount of detailed work written over the past twenty-five years on local and national politics, to present a coherent synthesis of what can seem a baffling and incoherent period.
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(This is a comprehensive study of minor landowners--the ge...)
This is a comprehensive study of minor landowners--the gentry--in one county of fifteenth-century England. It looks at all aspects of their lives, including marriage, the family, how they ran their estates and how they made friends and enemies, in an often very turbulent century that saw the reigns of the three Lancastrian kings (Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI), the Yorkist Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III, the first Tudor, Henry VII, and the Wars of the Roses.
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Carpenter received her Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Newnham College, Cambridge.
In June 2012, Professor Carpenter was selected to give Ford Lectures in Oxford, England in the 2015-2016 academic year, joining prestigious past and present Cambridge "Fordians" John Brewer, Peter Clarke, John Morrill, Quentin Skinner, and others She is author and editor of a number of English history books and papers. Carpenter"s research interests focus on the political and constitutional history of England from 1066 to ca.
1500, and in the political, social, economic, religious and cultural history of noble and gentry landowners in that period.
Carpenter supervises graduate work on government, politics and landed society from ca. 1250 to 1500 and at the undergraduate level she teaches all aspects of English history from ca.
1050 to 1500. Carpenter is the Director of an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project to complete the calendaring of the 15th century Inquisition post mortems, and one of the editors of the Cambridge University Press Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, in addition to serving on other editorial committees.
In June 2012, Professor Carpenter was selected to give Ford Lectures in Oxford, England in the 2015-2016 academic year. Freelance Tutor and Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, 1976-1979 Fellow and College Lecturer, New Hall, 1979-2005 University Assistant Lecturer, 1983-1988, University Lecturer, 1988-1995 Reader in Medieval English History, 1995-2005 Professor of Medieval English History, 2005–Present.
(The Wars of the Roses was a period of major crisis in Eng...)
(This is a comprehensive study of minor landowners--the ge...)