Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p David Crouch (born Cardiff, 1953) is a Welsh historian, and Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hull. He graduated in history from the former University College, Cardiff, in 1975 and went on to complete a doctorate on the Anglo-Norman twin aristocrats, Waleran of Meulan and Robert of Leicester, subsequently published by Cambridge University Press. He occupied research posts in the University of London until moving to a teaching position in North Riding College, later University College, Scarborough in 1990. In 2000 he transferred to the Department of History in the University of Hull as professor of medieval history. He has occupied visiting professorships in Poitiers and Milwaukee. From 2013 he holds a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.Crouch's main focus is on the social and political history of the period from 1000 to 1300, primarily in England and France, though he has written major studies on the medieval history of South East Wales and the diocese of Llandaff. In political history he has written influential biographies on King Stephen and William Marshal. He was a member of the academic team which edited and translated into English the contemporary medieval biography of Marshal His books on the aristocracy of England and France in the High Middle Ages, have been characterised by his incorporation of English social history into the mainstream of continental scholarship.. }
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- David_Crouch_(historian) abstract "David Crouch (born Cardiff, 1953) is a Welsh historian, and Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hull. He graduated in history from the former University College, Cardiff, in 1975 and went on to complete a doctorate on the Anglo-Norman twin aristocrats, Waleran of Meulan and Robert of Leicester, subsequently published by Cambridge University Press. He occupied research posts in the University of London until moving to a teaching position in North Riding College, later University College, Scarborough in 1990. In 2000 he transferred to the Department of History in the University of Hull as professor of medieval history. He has occupied visiting professorships in Poitiers and Milwaukee. From 2013 he holds a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.Crouch's main focus is on the social and political history of the period from 1000 to 1300, primarily in England and France, though he has written major studies on the medieval history of South East Wales and the diocese of Llandaff. In political history he has written influential biographies on King Stephen and William Marshal. He was a member of the academic team which edited and translated into English the contemporary medieval biography of Marshal His books on the aristocracy of England and France in the High Middle Ages, have been characterised by his incorporation of English social history into the mainstream of continental scholarship.".