Mark Ormrod (historian)
William Mark Ormrod is an English historian of the English later Middle Ages. He studied in London and Oxford, latterly at Worcester College, where he was awarded his D.Phil in the administration of Edward III.Career
Ormrod joined the University of York in 1990 and eventually became Professor of history and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. He holds numerous professional affiliations and, being a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Councillor of the Pipe Roll Society, a trustee of the Richard III and Yorkist History Trust, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He has also been an editor of the Yorkshire Archaeological Press, the York Medieval Press, and the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England project. One of his most recent publications, his contribution to the Yale English Monarchs series on Edward III has been described as 'a first rate example of historical investigation.'Select bibliography
- Edward III, London 2011.
- A Social History of England, 1200-1500, edited, with Rosemary Horrox, Cambridge 2006.
- Fourteenth Century England, editor, Wooddbridge, 2004.
- Time in the Medieval World edited, with C. Humphrey, York / Woodbridge 2001.
- The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth Century England, edited, with J. Bothwell & P. J. P. Goldberg, York / Woodbridge, 2000.
- The Evolution of English Justice: Law, Politics and Society in the Fourteenth Century edited, with A. Musson, Basingstoke / New York, 1999.
- Political Life in Medieval England, 1300-1450, Basingstoke / New York, 1995.
- England in the Fourteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1985 Harlaxton Symposium, Woodbridge, 1986.
