Henry Summerson
British professor
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Henry Summerson is an English historian. He is the author of a number of books.
Summerson, the son of an industrialist, was educated at Harrow and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a BA in History in 1970 and a PhD in 1976 for his thesis "The maintenance of law and order in England, 1227–1263".[1][2] He 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.[3] He was Research Edition for the Dictionary's medieval and Tudor articles, and is now an associate research editor. He has taken part in the Oxford Holinshed Project.[4]
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.[3][5]
Summerson is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[6]
Works
- The maintenance of law and order in England, 1227–63. Ph.D. dissertation 1975, University of Cambridge, supervisor D. J. V. Fisher[7]
- Crown Pleas of the Devon Eyre of 1238 (1985), court records, editor[8]
- Medieval Carlisle: The City and the Borders from the Late Eleventh to the Mid-Sixteenth Century (1993, 2 vols.)[9]
- Crown Pleas of the Wiltshire Eyre, 1268 (2012), court records, editor with Brenda Farr and Christopher Robin Elrington[10]
- Carlisle Castle (2013), with M. R. McCarthy, and R. G. Annis[11][12]