IAN MORTIMER


Full Bibliography

Last updated 4 January 2010

The Biographical History of Late Medieval England

  1. The Greatest Traitor: the Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Ruler of England 1327-1330 (Jonathan Cape (hardback), 2003; Pimlico (paperback), 2004; Thomas Dunne Books (USA, 2006))
  2. The Perfect King: the Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation (Jonathan Cape (hardback), 2006; Pimlico (paperback), 2007; Vintage (paperback), 2008)
  3. The Fears of Henry IV: the Life of England's Self-Made King (Jonathan Cape (hardback), 2007; Vintage (paperback), 2008))
  4. 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory (The Bodley Head (hardback), 2009))

Popular History

Research volumes and edited texts

Peer-refereed articles and chapters

  1. Theoretical and Critical
    • ‘Forty Years Hence: the Repositioning of History’, Sixteenth Century Journal, xl, 1 (2009), pp. 187-190.
    • ‘What isn't history? The nature and enjoyment of history in the twenty-first century’, History vol. 93 (October 2008), pp. 454-74.
    • 'Beyond the facts – How true originality in history has fallen foul of postmodernism, research targets and commercial pressure', The TLS (26 September 2008), pp. 16-17.
    • ‘Discriminating between readers: The case for a policy of flexibility’, Journal of the Society of Archivists, 23 (2002), pp. 59-67.
    • ‘Archon and the Indexes to the National Register of Archives: Past, Present and Future’, Program, 33 (1999), pp. 225-33.
  2. Medieval
    • ‘Henry IV's date of birth and the royal Maundy’, Historical Research, 80 (2007), pp. 567-76.
    • ‘Richard II and the Succession to the Crown’, History, 91 (2006), pp. 320-336.
    • ‘Sermons of Sodomy: a Reconsideration of Edward II's Sodomitical Reputation’, in Gwilym Dodd and Anthony Musson (eds) The Reign of Edward II: New Perspectives (Boydell, 2006), pp. 48-60.
    • ‘The Death of Edward II in Berkeley Castle’, The English Historical Review, 120 (2005), pp. 1175-1214.
  3. Early Modern
    • ‘The Rural Medical Marketplace in Southern England, c.1570-1720’, in Mark S. R. Jenner and Patrick Wallis (eds), Medicine and the Market in England and its Colonies, c. 1450-1850 (Palgrave, 2007), pp. 69-87
    • ‘A Directory of Medical Personnel Qualified and Practising in the Diocese of Canterbury, circa 1560-1730’, Archaeologia Cantiana, 126 (2006), pp. 135-169. N.B. see also the fuller electronic version on the Kent Archaeology Society's website.
    • ‘Why were probate accounts made? Methodological issues concerning the historical use of administrators' and executors' accounts’, Archives, 31 (2006), pp. 2-17.
    • ‘The Triumph of the Doctors: Medical Assistance to the Dying, c1570-1720’ (winning entry for the Alexander Prize, 2004), Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 15 (2005), pp. 97-116.
    • ‘Index of Medical Licentiates, Applicants, Referees and Examiners in the Diocese of Exeter, 1568-1783’, Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 136 (2004), pp. 99-134.
    • ‘Machyn , Henry (1496/1498-1563)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
    • ‘Baskerville, Hannibal (1597-1668)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
    • ‘Blount, Thomas (1618-1679)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
    • ‘Talbot, Thomas (c.1535-1595x9)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
    • ‘Diocesan licensing and medical practitioners in South-West England, 1660-1780’, Medical History, 48 (2004), pp. 49-68.
    • ‘Tudor chronicler or sixteenth-century diarist? Henry Machyn and the nature of his manuscript’ Sixteenth Century Journal, 33 (2002), pp. 981-998.
    • ‘The Agricultural Landscape in 1634’, in Joan Dils (ed.), An Historical Atlas of Berkshire (Berkshire Record Society, 1998), pp. 48-9.
  4. Modern
    • 'The Henry Williamson Archive at Exeter University', The Journal of the Henry Williamson Society, 41 (2005), pp. 64-71
    • [with Joseph Melling] 'British Government Policies for the Regulation of Anthrax Infection and the Wool Textiles Industries 1880-1939', Textile History, 31 (2000), pp. 222-236.

Magazine articles

Book reviews (history)

  • 'Chaucer's London by A. R. Myers', BBC History, 11, 1 (January 2010), p. 75.
  • 'The Historical Novel: The New Critical Idiom volume 10, by Jerome de Groot', History Today, 60, 1 (January 2010), 62.
  • 'The Celtic Revolution by Simon Young', The Guardian (19 December 2009).
  • 'Summer of Blood by Dan Jones', History Today, 59, 12 (December 2009), p. 58.
  • ‘Richard II: Manhood, Youth and Politics, 1377-99 by Christopher Fletcher', History, The Journal of the Historical Association (forthcoming).
  • ‘The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris) translated by Gina Greco and Christine Rose’, BBC History, 10, 7 (July 2009), p. 71,
  • ‘The Reign of Henry IV: Rebellion and Survival 1403-13 edited by Gwilym Dodd and Douglas Biggs’, History, The Journal of the Historical Association, 94, 3 (2009), pp. 389-91.
  • 'The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham', The Guardian (24 January 2009).
  • 'The Man who Believed he was King of France by Tomasso di Carpegna Falconieri', The Daily Telegraph (25 October 2008).
  • 'Warwick the Kingmaker by A. J. Pollard', BBC History, 8 (2007), p. 59
  • ‘The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, edited by Chris Given-Wilson’, History, The Journal of the Historical Association, 92 (2007), pp. 110-11.
  • ‘The History of the Merchant Taylors Company by Matthew Davies and Ann Saunders’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 37 (2006), pp. 849-51.
  • ‘The Bede Roll of the Fraternity of St. Nicholas, edited by N.W. and V.A. James’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 37 (2006), pp. 544-6.
  • ‘The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness and Honour by Markku Peltonen’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 36 (2005), pp. 527-8.
  • ‘The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing and Use by Colin G.C. Tite’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 36 (2005), pp. 188-190.
  • ‘The Death of Kings: Royal Deaths in Medieval England by Michael Evans’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 35 (2004), pp. 1182-4.
  • ‘West Britons: Cornish identities and the early modern British state by Mark Stoyle’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 34 (2003), pp. 599-600.
  • ‘The acoustic world of early modern England: Attending to the O-factor by B.R. Smith’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 33 (2002), pp. 593-5.
  • ‘The notorious astrological physician of London: Works and days of Simon Forman by Barbara Howard Traister’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 33 (2002), pp. 302-4.
  • ‘Earthly necessities: Economic lives in early modern Britain by Keith Wrightson’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 33 (2002), pp. 313-4.
  • ‘The professions in early modern England, 1450-1800: Servants of the commonweal by Rosemary O'Day’, Social History of Medicine, 14 (2001), pp. 557-8.
  • ‘Surgery, skin and syphilis: Daniel Turner's London (1667-1741) by Philip K. Wilson’, Social History of Medicine, 14 (2001), pp. 141-2.
  • ‘Material London ca.1600 by Lena C. Orlin’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 32 (2001), pp. 273-4.

Other prose works in the public domain

Published poems

  • '23 January 2009', in HQ Poetry Magazine (The Haiku Quarterly), 37 (2009), p. 18.
  • '31 December 1999', in Expression (a magazine for past and present students of the University of Exeter, this poem winning a prize for a poem to commemorate the Millenium).
  • 'First Loss', in Acumen, 28 (May 1997), p. 56.
  • 'Kiss', in a Poetry Now anthology (not sure of exact title or date, but mid 1990s).
  • 'Ghosts [II]', in Acumen, 24 (January 1996), p. 17.
  • 'The Beggar Gods' and 'Song above the Wind', in Lines Review, 132 (1995), pp. 19-20.
  • 'The Path', in Poetry Nottingham, 47, 4 (winter 1993), p. 6.
  • 'Afternoon in N16', 'At the end of the Day' and 'A Thousand Journeys' in Undertow: a Lotus Eaters Publication (University College London, Summer 1993), pp. 8, 15, 33.
  • 'Sonnets for Josephine, II & VIII', in Acumen, 17 (April 1993), p. 8.
  • 'A Gorgon's Head', in Orbis, 87 (Winter 1992), pp. 54-5.
  • 'For Maria', in Outposts, 173 (1993), p. 23.
  • 'In my own Country', 'Tears' and 'In the Next Room' in The Honest Ulsterman 93 (1992), pp. 40-2.
  • 'The First Stone', in Acumen, 15 (April 1992), pp. 8-9.
  • 'Despite Everything', in Orbis, 82 (Autumn 1991), p. 39.
  • 'In Our Hands', in Acumen, 13 (April 1991), p. 34.
  • 'Ghosts [I]', in Otter: New Devon Poetry, 8 (June 1991), pp. 24-5.
  • 'Frailty', in Stand 32, 4 (Autumn 1991), p. 5.
  • 'Bellever Tor' and 'Place of Birth', in X-Calibre, 8 (1991), pp. 20-1, 82.
  • 'Spring Symphony', in Westwords, 13 (1991), p. 23.
  • 'An Incendiary Life', in Otter: New Devon Poetry, 6 (August 1990), p. 18.
  • 'The Hearth', in Acumen, 10 (October 1989), p. 6.
  • 'No Such Silence', in Outposts, 162 (Autumn 1989), p. 65.
  • 'Skylark', in Otter: New Devon Poetry, 3 (July 1989), pp. 11-13.

     
  

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