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Professor Julia Crick FBA

Professor of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies

Research interests

  • History

Biography

Julia Crick spent her early career in Cambridge, completing her first and second degrees in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and the Faculty of History, before holding a research fellowship and then tutorship at Gonville and Caius College. She came to King's from the University of Exeter where she was Associate Professor in the Department of History, co-founding the MA in Medieval Studies, whose creation led to the formation of the Centre for Medieval Studies there. Julia Crick has served on the editorial board of the Blackwells journal Early Medieval Europe, on the Advisory Board of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, and on the international advisory boards of various research projects. She sits on the Royal Historical Society-British Academy Joint Committee on Anglo-Saxon Charters, the British Academy’s Neil Ker Memorial Fund Committee, the Comité scientifique of the Monumenta Palaeographica Medii Aevi and in 2015 was elected member of the Comité internationale de paléographie latine. From 2013 to 2107 she directed the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies at King’s.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• The manuscript culture of medieval Britain

• The learning and imitation of script and script-styles, particularly across political boundaries

• The function of the past, including origin legends and forgery

• The social history of early medieval Britain.

Julia Crick was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to investigate script and forgery in Britain to A.D. 1100 (2008-10). She is Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded Research Project, The Conqueror's Commissioners: Unlocking the Domesday Survey of South-West England (2014-17).

Teaching

Julia Crick teaches postgraduate courses on medieval palaeography and codicology, with a specialist option on the scripts of Britain, 600-1100, and undergraduate options on the history of the book.

Expertise and public engagement

Julia Crick has appeared on Radio 4’s Making History. She has recently made a podcast for the British Library and was a member of the advisory board of the British Library’s forthcoming exhibition, Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War.

    Research

    medieval england main
    Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies

    Interdisciplinary centre for the study of late antique and medieval history, languages, philosophy, religion, literature and music in western and eastern Europe.

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    Knowledge Orders before Modernity: a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme

    Equipping future generations with critically endangered skills and technical expertise essential for understanding manuscript texts and archival records.

    Project status: Starting

    News

    Consortium headed by King's wins Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarships Programme

    Academics at King's, in partnership with colleagues at the University of Kent, have been awarded up to £2.2m of funding to support doctoral scholars in the...

    Leverhulme Trust logo

    Four King's academics elected as British Academy Fellows

    The British Academy has elected four King’s academics as new Fellows

    The British Academy has elected four King’s academics as new Fellows

    The key to the Domesday survey?

    Domesday digitisation project wins funding from AHRC in collaboration with the Friends of Exeter Cathedral.

    Binding for the Exeter Cathedral Domesday manuscript.

    Achievements in the Department of History

    History Department recognised by the Institute of Historical Research and the Royal Historical Society.

    King's Building

      Research

      medieval england main
      Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies

      Interdisciplinary centre for the study of late antique and medieval history, languages, philosophy, religion, literature and music in western and eastern Europe.

      shutterstock_2182913787
      Knowledge Orders before Modernity: a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme

      Equipping future generations with critically endangered skills and technical expertise essential for understanding manuscript texts and archival records.

      Project status: Starting

      News

      Consortium headed by King's wins Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarships Programme

      Academics at King's, in partnership with colleagues at the University of Kent, have been awarded up to £2.2m of funding to support doctoral scholars in the...

      Leverhulme Trust logo

      Four King's academics elected as British Academy Fellows

      The British Academy has elected four King’s academics as new Fellows

      The British Academy has elected four King’s academics as new Fellows

      The key to the Domesday survey?

      Domesday digitisation project wins funding from AHRC in collaboration with the Friends of Exeter Cathedral.

      Binding for the Exeter Cathedral Domesday manuscript.

      Achievements in the Department of History

      History Department recognised by the Institute of Historical Research and the Royal Historical Society.

      King's Building