Professor Charles West

M.A. (Cambridge), MPhil (Birmingham), Ph.D. (Cambridge)

School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities

Honorary Professor in Medieval History

Dr Charles West
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c.m.west@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2608

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Professor Charles West
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
葫芦影业
S3 7RA
Profile

I joined the Department of History as a lecturer in 2008, after studying in Birmingham, Cambridge and Oxford. I research and teach the history of Europe between the eighth and twelfth centuries.

My research has been supported by grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Humboldt Foundation and the British Academy, and I have held visiting fellowships at the Eberhard Karls Universit盲t T眉bingen, Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, and the University of Edinburgh.

Research interests
Publications

Books

  • Zeller B, West C, Tinti F, Stoffella M, Schroeder N, van Rhijn C, Patzold S, Kohl T, Davies W & Czock M (2020) . Manchester University Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stone R & West C (2016) The divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga: Hincmar of Rheims's De divortio. Manchester: Manchester University Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2013) . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hallam EM & West C () . Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download

Edited books

  • Screen E & West C (Ed.) (2018) . Cambridge University Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stone R & West C (Ed.) (2015) . Manchester University Press. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

  • West C (2023) . Fr眉hmittelalterliche Studien, 57(1), 347-380. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cortese ME, West C & Wickham C (2022) . Reti Medievali Rivista, 23(1), 357-404. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gilbert R, de Jong M, Traves A, West C & Zhang T (2022) . Mittelalter: Interdisziplin盲re Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte, 5, 1-33. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2022) . Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 73(2), 229-253. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2021) . Early Medieval Europe, 29(1), 86-108. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Vocino G & West C (2019) . M茅langes de l鈥櫭塩ole fran莽aise de Rome - Moyen 脗ge, 131(1), 87-117. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C & Innes M (2019) Saints and Demons in the Carolingian Countryside. Vortr盲ge und Forschungen, 87(Kleine Welten. L盲ndliche Gesellschaften im Karolingerreich), 67-99. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2019) . The Medieval Low Countries, 6, 75-94. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2018) . Medievales, 74, 165-178. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2017) . Medieval Worlds, 6, 2-6. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2017) . Speculum, 92(2), 372-404. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C & Vanderputten S (2016) . Mitteilungen des Instituts fur Osterreichische Geschichtsforschung, 124(2), 296-321. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2016) . Reti Medievali Rivista, 17(2), 301-317. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2016) . History Workshop Journal, 81(1), 1-16. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2016) . Early Medieval Europe, 24(2), 137-159. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2016) . The Medieval History Journal, 19(1), 151-153. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2015) . Past and Present, 226(1), 3-40. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2012) . ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, 127(526), 523-548. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West CMA (2010) . Journal of Medieval History, 36(4), 295-311. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2009) . Early Medieval Europe, 17(2), 186-206. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • West C (2020) The 鈥渟chism of 1054鈥 and the politics of church reform in Lotharingia, c. 1100 In Kohl T (Ed.), Konflikt und Wandel um 1100 (pp. 195-207). De Gruyter RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2019) Royal estates, confiscation and the politics of land in the kingdom of Otto I In Bougard F & Lore V (Ed.), Biens publics, biens du roi. Les bases 茅conomiques des pouvoirs royaux dans le haut Moyen 脗ge (pp. 155-175). RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2019) 鈥淎nd how, if you are a Christian, can you hate the emperor?鈥. Reading a seventh-century scandal in Carolingian Francia鈥 In Kellermann K, Plassmann A & Schwermann C (Ed.), Criticising the ruler in pre-modern societies 鈥 possibilities, chances and methods (pp. 411-430). Bonn. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2019) , Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium (pp. 429-443). Cambridge University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2018) In Screen E & West C (Ed.), Writing the Early Medieval West (pp. 169-182). Cambridge University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2018) In Gro脽e R & Sot M (Ed.), Charlemagne: les temps, les espaces, les hommes (pp. 227-244). Brepols RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2018) , Writing the Early Medieval West (pp. 169-182). RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2015) Hincmar's parish priests, Hincmar of Rheims (pp. 228-246). RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2015) Competing for the Holy Spirit: Humbert of Moyenmoutier and the Question of Simony In Bougard F, Depreux P & Le Jan R (Ed.), Comp茅tition et sacr茅 au haut Moyen 脗ge: entre m茅diation et exclusion RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2015) Le saint, le charpentier et le pr锚tre: l鈥橝pparitio Sancti Vedasti et les 茅lites dans la Francia du IXe si猫cle In Jegou L, Lienhard T & Schneider J (Ed.), Faire lien. R茅seaux, aristocratie et 茅change comp茅titif au Moyen 脗ge. M茅langes en l鈥檋onneur de R茅gine Le Jan (pp. 237-245). RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2015) Group formation in the long tenth century: a view from Trier and its region In Albrecht & Kleinjung (Ed.), Das lange 10. Jahrhundert 鈥 Struktureller Wandel zwischen Zentralisierung und Fragmentierung, 盲u脽erem Druck und innerer Krise (pp. 49-59). RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2013) Meaning and context: Moringus the lay scribe and charter formulation in late-Carolingian Burgundy In McKinley & Jarrett (Ed.), Problems and Possibilities of Early Medieval Charters (pp. 71-87). RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2013) All in the same boat? East Anglia, the North Sea world and the 1147 expedition to Lisbon In Bates D & Liddiard R (Ed.), East Anglia and Its North Sea World in the Middle Ages Boydell Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2012) Dynastic Historical Writing In Foot S & Robinson C (Ed.), Oxford History of Historical Writing 600-1400 Oxford. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2011) Evaluating Conflict at Court: a West Frankish perspective In Becher M & Plassmann A (Ed.), Streit am Hof im fr眉hen Mittelalter Ruprecht Gmbh & Company RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2011) Urban populations and associations In Crick J & Houts EV (Ed.), A Social History of England, 900-1200 (pp. 198-207). Cambridge. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2011) Principaut茅s et territoires, comtes et comt茅s In Gaillard M (Ed.), De la mer du Nord 脿 la M茅diterran茅e RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2010) Legal culture in tenth-century Lotharingia In Rollason DWDW, Leyser C & Williams H (Ed.), England and the Continent in the Tenth Century Brepols Pub RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C () Exclusion et la paysannerie au XIe si猫cle au miroir des Versus de Unibove In Joye S (Ed.), Exclusion RIS download Bibtex download

Book reviews

  • West C (2021) . The English Historical Review. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2019) . Early Medieval Europe, 27(4), 589-591. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2018) . The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 69(3), 628-630. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2014) . French History, 28(4), 591-592. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2014) . French History, 28(2), 287-288. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2013) . ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, 128(535), 1531-1532. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2013) . Early Medieval Europe, 21(4), 495-496. RIS download Bibtex download
  • WEST C (2012) . History, 97(326), 303-304. RIS download Bibtex download
  • WEST C (2012) . Early Medieval Europe, 20(1), 103-105. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2011) . History: the journal of the Historical Association, 96(324), 499-499. RIS download Bibtex download
  • WEST CMA (2011) . Early Medieval Europe, 19(2), 243-245. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West CMA (2010) . ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, 125(514), 673-675. RIS download Bibtex download
  • WEST CMA (2010) . Early Medieval Europe, 18(2), 231-232. RIS download Bibtex download
  • WEST C (2009) . Early Medieval Europe, 17(4), 469-470. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West CMA (2009) . ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, 124(509), 914-916. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C (2009) . ENGL HIST REV, 124(508), 670-672. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West CMA (2008) . ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, 123(502), 695-696. RIS download Bibtex download
  • WEST C (2008) . Early Medieval Europe, 16(2), 245-247. RIS download Bibtex download
  • West C () . Global Intellectual History, 1-2. RIS download Bibtex download

Datasets

  • West C, Stafford T & Litchfield G (2020) . RIS download Bibtex download
  • Stafford T, West C & Tomkins C . RIS download Bibtex download
Professional activities and memberships
  • - reviews editor
  • - Associate Member
  • - Fellow
  • - Fellow
  • - editorial collective
  • - editorial board
  • - Fellow
  • - editorial board

Previous administrative roles

  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • Senior Admissions Tutor, Level II tutor
Public engagement

My public engagement takes several forms. I run an active account, and recently developed a podcast on . From 2017, I began experimenting with integrating Wikipedia, the world鈥檚 largest encyclopedia, into my teaching, leading to the creation and improvement of many pages on medieval topics. These are read by thousands of people across the world each year.

In the past, I have also brokered public lecture series with Museums 葫芦影业 (2011-12) and with 葫芦影业 Cathedral (2016), set up the Witness Oral History project (2011-18), and contributed to an Arts Enterprise project on the medieval records of Tinsley. I have also talked about my research to public groups such as the University of the Third Age.

In the media

I have been interviewed on BBC Radio 4 and local radio stations, and have contributed to the department's . I have also written for , and the London Review of Books