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词条 Michael Hicks (historian)
释义

  1. Education and academic career

      Research and interests  

  2. Retirement and later activity

  3. Exhumation and reburial of Richard III

     Recognition 

  4. Select publications

  5. References

      Bibliography  

  6. External links

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Michael A. Hicks (born 1948) is an English historian, specialising on the history of late medieval England, in particular the Wars of the Roses, the nature of late medieval society, and the kings and nobility of the period.

Education and academic career

Hicks studied under Charles Ross while a final-year undergraduate student at the University of Bristol (1969–70),[1] T. B. Pugh for his M.A. at Southampton (1971),[1] and C. A. J. Armstrong for his DPhil. at the University of Oxford (1975),[2] which he had originally began under J. R. L. Highfield.[3][4] In his own words, his research was – and remained[5] – firmly placed within "the school of history founded by the late K.B. McFarlane... the Master" although with a heavy "biographical bent".[1] His first published article, however, was on an aspect of law in the seventeenth century.[6] Having worked for the Victoria County History project between 1974 and 1978,[5] he joined King Alfred's College, Winchester, later the University of Winchester.[7] A proposed joint paper with his former tutor, Charles Ross, on bastard feudalism had come to nothing by 1978,[8] and a suggestion by Gerald Harriss for a joint study with Christine Carpenter, Michael Hicks and himself "foundered on [their] incompatible points of view".[9]

Research and interests

Originally firmly wedded to the McFarlane understanding of bastard feudalism, in which the nobility were motivated almost solely by financial and material interests, in which "self-interest, self-advantage, and self-preservation featured largely",[10] this perspective gradually evolved, by the last decade of the twentieth century, into a more "complex" understanding of the English nobility, in which their piety and religious belief, idealism and individuality are as important motives in "high politics" as material benefit.[11] In a 2014 interview with Royal Studies Journal, he opined that, until recently, "all History was political"; but noted that there was an increasingly thematic trend to historical research.[12]

Retirement and later activity

{{Quote box||quoted=true |align = left |bgcolor=#FFFFCC |salign=center|width=35em||source=– Michael Hicks on the Richard III Society|quote=The Richard III Society consists of some who contain an extreme and romantic view. They publish scholarly work in the belief that it will eventually exculpate Richard III, but it hasn't actually done so.{{sfn|Hogenboom|2012}}}}

Eventually Professor of Medieval History and Head of Department at the University of Winchester until his retirement, he was appointed Emeritus Professor in September 2014.[13] He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society,[14] and the reviews editor for the peer-reviewed Southern History journal.[15] It has been calculated that in the thirty-five year period to 2013 he published seventy-five articles and full-length studies, averaging over two per year. As of 2012,[16] his most recent work has centred on the Inquisitions post mortem,[17] and he is now principal investigator on a project "dedicated to creating a digital edition of the medieval English inquisitions".[18][19]

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Exhumation and reburial of Richard III

{{main article|Exhumation and reburial of Richard III of England}}

Interviewed by the BBC in September 2012, amid the "upsurge of interest" in Richard III and the attempts of the Richard III Society campaign to rehabilitate the dead king, Hicks commented that the society had members "who contain an extreme and romantic view" of Richard III, and that whilst they publish work of scholarship in his defence they have not succeeded in overturning the long-held historiographical consensus regarding the king's best-known controversy, the fate of his nephews in the Tower of London.[20] Indeed, he went so far as to cast doubt that the bones discovered in Leicester were actually those of the king, saying "lots of other people who suffered similar wounds could have been buried in the choir of the church where the bones were found" (thus disregarding the DNA evidence).[21] Elsewhere, however, he called the popular English television series The White Queens portrayal of the people and time "useful and informative".[22]

Recognition

A festschrift for Michael Hicks was published in 2015 by Boydell and Brewer, and included contributions from academic colleagues and past students. Of the former these included Caroline Barron, Anne Curry, Ralph A. Griffiths, Christopher Dyer, Tony Pollard, and James Ross. Of his former students, Gordon McKelvie, Jessica Lutkin, and Karen Stober all contributed, as did the editor of the journal The Ricardian, Anne F. Sutton.[23]

Select publications

  • False, Fleeting, Perjur’d Clarence (1980), {{ISBN|0-904387-44-5}}
  • Who's who in late Medieval England (1991), {{ISBN|0-85683-092-5}}
  • Richard III and his Rivals : Magnates and their Motives in the War of the Roses (1991), {{ISBN|1-85285-053-1}}
  • Bastard Feudalism (1995), {{ISBN|0-582-06091-5}}
  • Warwick the Kingmaker (1998), {{ISBN|0-631-16259-3}}
  • Richard III (2000), {{ISBN|0-7524-1781-9}}
  • English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century (2002), {{ISBN|0-415-21763-6}}
  • The Wars of the Roses 1455-1485 (2003), {{ISBN|0-415-96864-X}}
  • Edward V (2003), {{ISBN|0-7524-1996-X}}
  • Edward IV (2004), {{ISBN|0-340-76005-2}}
  • Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III (2006), {{ISBN|0-7524-3663-5}}
  • The Wars of the Roses (2010), {{ISBN|978-0-300-11423-2}}
  • The Family of Richard III (2015), {{ISBN|978-1445621258}}

References

1. ^Hicks. M. A., Richard III & his Rivals: Magnates and their Motives in the War of the Roses, London, 1991, ix.
2. ^Hicks, M. A., Richard III & his Rivals: Magnates and their Motives in the War of the Roses London, 1991, ix.
3. ^Clarke, L. (ed.), The Fifteenth Century XIV: Essays Presented to Michael Hicks, Woodbridge, 2015, xi.
4. ^Hicks, M .A., False, Fleeting, Perjur'd Clarence: George, Duke of Clarence, 1449-78, Gloucester, 1980, 9.
5. ^Clarke, L. (ed.), The Fifteenth Century XIV: Essays Presented to Michael Hicks, Woodbridge, 2015, xvi.
6. ^. Hicks, M. A., Richard III & his Rivals: Magnates and their Motives in the War of the Roses, London, 1991, x; Hicks, M. A., "Draper v. Crowther: The Prebend of Brownswood Dispute 1664–1692", Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 28 (1977).
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.winchester.ac.uk/academicdepartments/history/peopleprofiles/pages/professormichaelhicks.aspx|title=Professor Michael Hicks|publisher=}}
8. ^Hicks, M. A., Richard III & his Rivals: Magnates and their Motives in the War of the Roses, London, 1991, x, xi.
9. ^Hicks, M. A., Richard III & his Rivals: Magnates and their Motives in the War of the Roses, London, 1991, xii.
10. ^Hicks, M. A., Richard III & his Rivals: Magnates and their Motives in the War of the Roses, London, 1991, xii.
11. ^Hicks, M. A., Richard III & his Rivals: Magnates and their Motives in the War of the Roses, London, 1991, xii-xiii.
12. ^{{cite web|url=https://royalstudiesjournal.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/interview-with-historian-michael-hicks/|title=Interview with Historian, Michael Hicks|work=Royal Studies Journal}}
13. ^ , University of Winchester History Department Person Profile for Michael Hicks.
14. ^{{cite book|first=Michael|last=Hicks|title=Warwick the Kingmaker|edition=|publisher=Blackwell|location=Oxford|year=1998|page=back cover|isbn=0-631-16259-3|url=}}
15. ^Clarke, L. (ed.), The Fifteenth Century XIV: Essays Presented to Michael Hicks, Woodbridge, 2015, xvii.
16. ^Hicks, M. A. (ed.), The Fifteenth-Century Inquisitions Post Mortem: A Companion, Woodbridge, 2012.
17. ^Clarke, L. (ed.), The Fifteenth Century XIV: Essays Presented to Michael Hicks, Woodbridge, 2015, xv, xvi.
18. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/|title=Home - Mapping the Medieval Countryside|publisher=}}
19. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/personnel/|title=Personnel|publisher=}}
20. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19572103|title=Richard III: The people who want everyone to like the infamous king|work=BBC News}}
21. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.historyextra.com/news/was-skeleton-found-leicester-car-park-really-richard-iii|title=Was the skeleton found in the Leicester car park really King Richard III? Experts raise doubts – History Extra|work=History Extra}}
22. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/jun/24/medieval-historians-view-white-queen|title=A medieval historian's view on The White Queen|author=Laura Barnett|work=the Guardian}}
23. ^Clarke, L. (ed.), The Fifteenth Century XIV: Essays Presented to Michael Hicks, Woodbridge, 2015, x–xi.

Bibliography

  • {{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19572103|title=Richard III: The people who want everyone to like the infamous king|last=Hogenboom|first=M.|date=15 September 2012|website=BBC News|publisher=BBC|access-date=26 January 2018|ref=harv}}

External links

  • Home page at the University of Winchester
  • Mapping the Medieval Countryside project to digitize the IPMs.
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