George Garnett


George Stephen Garnett is a British academic historian, specialising in late Anglo-Saxon and Norman England. In 2014, the University of Oxford awarded him the title of Professor of Medieval History.

Education and career

Garnett holds Master of Arts degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge and completed his doctoral studies at Cambridge. He was appointed a Tutorial Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford, in 1990 and, as of 2016, is also a lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. In 2014, the University awarded him the title of Professor of Medieval History. The following year, he was appointed the University's senior proctor.

Select publications

Garnett specialises in the history of England between the tenth and thirteenth centuries and has studied the impact of the Norman Conquest on kingship and land-holding in his 2007 monograph Conquered England: Kingship, Succession, and Tenure. He has subsequently studied the historiography of the Conquest, as well as late medieval early modern political writings about resistance. His publications include: