Dr Paul Dryburgh
Email paul.dryburgh@kcl.ac.uk
Address Department of History
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
Research interests
Paul is a Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded research project Between Magna Carta to the Parliamentary State: the Fine Rolls of King Henry III, 1216-1272. His main responsibility is to translate and calendar the rolls from the original Latin and create indexes of persons, places and subjects in preparation for simultaneous print and electronic publication with Boydell and Brewer and on the project’s free-to-access website (www.finerollshenry3.org.uk). He is also in charge of maintaining that website, creating and revising its content.
Biography
Paul has a BA (Hons.) in German and History from the University of Stirling (1997). He completed his doctoral thesis (‘The career of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (c. 1287-1330)) at the University of Bristol in 2003. Since then he has worked as a Research Associate on the ESRC-funded research projects “Sources for the History of Medieval Ireland at The National Archives of the United Kingdom” (University of Bristol, 2002-04) and “Modern Finance in the Middle Ages: Advance Contracts for the Sale of Wool” (University of Reading, 2004/05).
Publications
Fine Rolls
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Calendar of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III, eds. Paul Dryburgh & Beth Hartland, technical eds. Arianna Ciula & Jose Miguel Vieira. I: 1216-1224(Woodbridge, 2007); II: 1224-1234 (Woodbridge, 2008).
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Paul Dryburgh & Beth Hartland, ‘The Development of the Fine Rolls’ in Janet Burton, Philipp Schofield and Bjorn Weiler (eds.), Thirteenth Century England: Proceedings of the Gregynog Conference (Woodbridge, 2008).
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Paul Dryburgh & Beth Hartland) ‘Once on Parchment, Now Online’, Ancestors 58 (TNA, June 2007), 42-5.
Books
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Adrian Bell, Chris Brooks & Paul Dryburgh, The English Wool Market c. 1230-1327 (Cambridge: CUP, October 2007)
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Paul Dryburgh & Brendan Smith, Inquisitions and Extents of Medieval Ireland (Kew: List & Index Society, vol. 320, September 2007)
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Adrian Bell, Chris Brooks & Paul Dryburgh, Advance Contracts for the Sale of Wool c. 1200-1327 (Kew: List & Index Society vol. 315, 2006).
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Paul Dryburgh & Brendan Smith (ed.), Handbook and Select Calendar of Documents relating to Medieval Ireland in the National Archives of the United Kingdom (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005).
Articles
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Paul Dryburgh, ‘Roger Mortimer and the Governance of Ireland, 1317-20’ in Brendan Smith (ed.) Reshaping the Nations: Britain and Ireland 1300-1500 (Palgrave, 2008)
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Adrian Bell, Chris Brooks & Paul Dryburgh, ‘Interest Rates and Efficiency in medieval forward contracts’, Journal of Banking & Finance 31 (2007), pp. 361-80.
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Adrian Bell, Chris Brooks & Paul Dryburgh, ‘“Leger est aprendre mes fort est arendre”: Wool, Debt and the Dispersal of Pipewell Abbey, (1280-1330)’, Journal of Medieval History 32: 3 (2006), pp. 187-211.