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Levi Roach

Levi Roach is an academic, a medievalist and historian of Anglo-Saxon England and Holy Roman Empire (Germany), specialising in kingship, governance, and diplomatic.

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Levi Roach (born 30 June 1985) is an academic, a medievalist and historian of Anglo-Saxon England and Holy Roman Empire (Germany), specialising in kingship, governance, and diplomatic.1

As a student he studied at the University of Cambridge and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, completing his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge in 2011.1 Between 2011 and 2012 he held a fellowship with St John's College, Cambridge, and subsequently in 2012 became a lecturer at the University of Exeter.1 From 2024 he has held a personal chair in Medieval History and Diplomatic.1

Select publications

  • Kingship and Consent in Anglo-Saxon England, 871–978 : Assemblies and the State in the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
  • Æthelred the Unready (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016)
  • Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021)
  • Empires of the Normans : Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia (London: John Murray, 2022)

His work on Æthelred the Unready won the Longman-History Today Prize and the Labarge Prize in 2017,2 the latter representing the "prize for the best book published by a Canadian medievalist" for the relevant year.3

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  1. Exeter Profile, University of Exeter, retrieved 14 October 2024
  2. Exeter Expert Profile, University of Exeter, retrieved 14 October 2024
  3. Labarge Prize, Canadian Society of Medievalists, retrieved 14 October 2024