W. Mark Ormrod - Immigrant England, 1300-1550

IMMIGRANT ENGLAND, 13001550

SERIES EDITOR Professor S. H. Rigby

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IMMIGRANT ENGLAND, 13001550

W. Mark Ormrod, Bart Lambert and Jonathan Mackman

Manchester University Press

CONTENTS

This book has its genesis in the research project Englands Immigrants, 13301550 (201215), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom. The database that resulted, Englands Immigrants, 13301550, www.englandsimmigrants.com, provides much of the raw evidence that is analysed in the chapters that follow and offers many further opportunities for development and interpretation.

W. Mark Ormrod was the principal investigator on the Englands Immigrants project; Bart Lambert one of the research assistants; and Jonathan Mackman the research fellow. Our primary debts of gratitude go to the other members of the core research team: the co-investigators, Nicola McDonald and Craig Taylor; the other research assistant and impact officer, Jessica Lutkin; the two PhD students, Jenn Bartlett and Christopher Linsley; and the editorial assistant, Jonathan Hanley. We are also appreciative of the invaluable input from the members of the International Board set up to advise the project, comprising James Bolton, Peter Fleming, Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli, Antonio Castro Henriques, Christian Liddy, Serge Lusignan, Maryanne Kowaleski, Sarah Rees Jones, Andrea Ruddick and Len Scales. Alan Bryson and Alan Kissane also contributed to the later stages of the projects academic development.

Judith Bennett was a major supporter of the project throughout, and we acknowledge her willingness to share her own research from the project data in advance of its publication. Nicholas Amor, Michael Bennett, Alan Bryson, David Ditchburn, Jonathan Finch, Judith Frost, Tom Johnson, Robert Kinsey, Ada Mascio, Christine Meek, Milan Pajic, Joshua Ravenhill, Jill Redford and Megan Tidderman have been generous with advice and references from their unpublished research. We are grateful to Cath DAlton for her expertise in compiling the maps, and to ine Foley for constructing the index. Michael Pidd and Matthew Groves of the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Sheffield, who created and continue to host the Englands Immigrants database, have provided exemplary professional services throughout. Sean Cunningham, Andrew Payne and other colleagues at the UK National Archives have provided essential liaison, created the local infrastructure for the London-based researchers, and been instrumental in the development of the impact strategy.

A special acknowledgement is due to Nicola McDonald, who was originally going to contribute to the writing of this book but was subsequently prevented by circumstance and other duties. Nicola provided significant creative input to the early planning phases, and her knowledge of the linguistic and literary background of later medieval England helped inform the cultural history contained in .

In the latter phases of the writing of this book, Bart Lamberts work was funded by the HERA Joint Research Programme 3: Uses of the Past (on the project CitiGen) and the European Commission through Horizon 2020 (grant agreement 649307).

We are grateful to the series editor, Stephen Rigby, for his close reading and constructive criticism of our work; to the staff of Manchester University Press, especially Meredith Carroll and Alun Richards, for their support and advice in preparing this book for publication; and to the anonymous reader who provided many useful comments on the penultimate version of the text. Finally, we acknowledge with particular gratitude the support provided to our project by the Centre for Medieval Studies, the Department of History and the Humanities Research Centre at the University of York.

W. Mark Ormrod

Bart Lambert

Jonathan Mackman

February 2018