Henry Summerson Explained

Henry Summerson is an English historian. He is the author of a number of books.

Summerson worked for the Carlisle Archaeological Unit and wrote a history of medieval Carlisle (1993). He was then employed by English Heritage writing a number of guidebooks on English castles. He is an editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, for which he has written 165 articles.^[1] He was Research Edition for the Dictionarys medieval and Tudor articles, and is now an associate research editor. He has taken part in the Oxford Holinshed Project.^[2]

A participant in the Magna Carta Project, Summerson has written commentaries chapter by chapter of the original Magna Carta of 1215, and its sequel of 1225.^{[1] [3]}

Summerson is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.^[4]

Works

• The maintenance of law and order in England, 1227-63. Ph.D. dissertation 1975, University of Cambridge, supervisor D. J. V. Fisher^[5]
• Crown Pleas of the Devon Eyre of 1238 (1985), court records, editor^[6]
• Medieval Carlisle: The City and the Borders from the Late Eleventh to the Mid-Sixteenth Century (1993, 2 vols.)^[7]
• Crown Pleas of the Wiltshire Eyre, 1268 (2012), court records, editor with Brenda Farr and Christopher Robin Elrington^[8]
• Carlisle Castle (2013), with M. R. McCarthy, and R. G. Annis^{[9] [10]}

External links

• Henry Summerson at GoodReads

Notes and References

1. Web site: Magna Carta Project - personnel . magnacarta.cmp.uea.ac.uk.
2. Web site: The Editor . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . en.
3. Book: Carpenter . David . Magna Carta . 2015 . Penguin UK . 978-0-14-196846-9 . 11 . en.
4. Book: Royal Historical Society: Fellows - S .
5. Book: University of London Institute of Historical Research . Historical Research for University Degrees in the United Kingdom . 1976 . 16 . en.
6. Book: Summerson . Henry . Crown Pleas of the Devon Eyre of 1238 . 1985 . Society . 978-0-901853-28-8 . en.
7. Book: Summerson . H. R. T. . Medieval Carlisle: The City and the Borders from the Late Eleventh to the Mid-Sixteenth Century . 1993 . The Society . 978-1-873124-18-5 . en.
8. Book: Regis . Great Britain Curia . Crown Pleas of the Wiltshire Eyre, 1268 . 2012 . Wiltshire Record Society . 978-0-901333-42-1 . en.
9. Book: Liverpool University Press: Books . en.
10. Book: Carlisle Castle : a survey and documentary history . Historic Buildings & Monuments Commission for England . 978-1-848-02141-9.