John Gillingham
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John Bennett Gillingham (born 3 August 1940){{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/gillingham-john-1940 |title=Gillingham, John 1940- |author= |date=2009 |website=Encyclopedia.com |publisher=Highbeam Research |access-date=30 December 2017 }} is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.{{cite web |url=http://www2.lse.ac.uk/ERD/pressAndInformationOffice/newsAndEvents/archives/2007/FiveAcademicsElectedBAFellows.aspx |title=News — News — News and media — Home |publisher=.lse.ac.uk |access-date=2015-11-28 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} On 19 July 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.{{cite web |url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/release.asp?Newsid=258 |title=British Academy | News — British Academy announces new elections to Fellowship |publisher=Britac.ac.uk |access-date=2015-11-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923224225/http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/release.asp?Newsid=258 |archive-date=23 September 2015 |df=dmy-all }}
Gillingham is renowned as an expert on the Angevin Empire.{{cite web | url=https://www.tcd.ie/medieval-history/events/lydon-lectures/about.php | title=About - the James Lydon Lectures in Medieval History and Culture - Events : Trinity Medieval History Research Centre:Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland }}
Books
- Richard the Lionheart (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978)
- The Wars of the Roses: peace and conflict in fifteenth-century England (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981)
- The Angevin Empire (E. Arnold, 1984)
- Richard Coeur de Lion: kingship, chivalry and war in the twelfth century (Hambledon Press, 1994)
- Richard I (Yale University Press, 1999) Part of the Yale English Monarchs Series
- The English in the Twelfth Century: imperialism, national identity, and political values (Boydell and Brewer, 2000)
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