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Staff Profile of Dr Mark Hagger

M.A. (Hons), M. Litt., Ph.D. (St Andrews), F.R.Hist.S.

Name:

Dr Mark Hagger

Position:

Lecturer in Medieval History

Email:

Location:

Room T16 Main Arts

Phone:

+44 (0)1248 382781

Background

Mark Hagger joined the School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology at Bangor in September 2007. He was awarded his Ph.D. by the University of St Andrews in 1998, worked for a time as a solicitor in the City of London, but returned to academia in October 2003, when he was employed in the History Faculty at Oxford University as a post-doctoral research assistant on a project to edit the charters and writs of Henry I (1100–1135). He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the council of the Pipe Roll Society.

Research Interests

Dr Hagger’s research currently focuses on the dukes and duchy of Normandy between 911 and 1144. Recent articles have addressed some aspects of this work, and a monograph exploring the creation and governance of the duchy is underway. In addition, an accessible biography of William the Conqueror will be published by I. B. Tauris in September 2012. 

Publications

  • The Fortunes of a Norman Family: The de Verduns in England, Ireland, and Wales, 1066–1316 (Dublin, 2001)
  • ‘Kinship and identity in eleventh-century Normandy: the case of Hugh de Grandmesnil, c. 1040–1098’, Journal of Medieval History, 32 (2006), 212–30
  • ‘A pipe roll for 25 Henry I’, English Historical Review, 122 (2007), 133–140
  • ‘The Norman vicomte c. 1035–1135: What did he do?’, Anglo-Norman Studies, 29 (2007), 65–83
  • ‘The Gesta abbatum monasterii sancti Albani: Litigation and history at St Albans’, Historical Research, 81 (2008), 373–98
  • ‘The earliest Norman writs revisited’, Historical Research 82 (2009), 181–205
  • ‘Theory and practice in the making of twelfth-century pipe rolls’ in Records, Administration and Aristocratic Society in the Anglo-Norman Realm, ed. N. Vincent (Boydell, 2009), 45–74
  • ‘Secular law and custom in ducal Normandy, c. 1000–1144’, Speculum, 85 (2010), 827–67
  • ‘How the west was won: the Norman dukes and the Cotentin, c. 987–c. 1087’, Journal of Medieval History (forthcoming 2012)
  • ‘Lordship and lunching: interpretations of eating and food in the Anglo-Norman world, 1050–1200, with reference to the Bayeux Tapestry’, in The English and Their Legacy, 900–1200. Essays in Honour of Ann Williams, ed. D. Roffe (Woodbridge, forthcoming 2012)
  • William: King and Conqueror (London, forthcoming 2012)

Areas of Teaching and Supervision

Modules at Level 4

Apocalypse Then: The Disastrous History of the Fourteenth Century (with Dr Sue Johns and others)

General Modules at Levels 5 and 6

Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c. 476–c. 987
Europe in the High Middle Ages, c. 1000–c. 1250

Topic Modules at Levels 5 and 6

The Kingdom in the Sun: Norman Sicily, 1130–1189
The Lion of Justice: The Life and Reign of Henry I (1068–1135)

Special Subject at Level 6

Going to the Devil? The Life and Rule of Henry II, 1133–1189

Postgraduate teaching and supervision

Documents and Sources for Medieval and Early Modern History (contributor)
MA Special Option: Normandy under the Normans, 911–1144

Dr Hagger is currently supervising Jennifer Korst’s work on the Draco Normannicus of Stephen of Rouen. He would welcome research students who would like to work on aspects of the governance of the Anglo-Norman regnum, Anglo-Norman charters and chronicles, the Anglo-Norman aristocracy, and the art and architecture of England and Normandy in the period to 1189.