David Carpenter (historian)
David Carpenter | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Sheriffs of Oxfordshire and their subordinates, 1194–1236: a study in politics, patronage and society (1973) |
| Doctoral advisor | J. O. Prestwich |
| Influences | J. C. Holt |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Medieval history |
| Institutions | |
| Doctoral students | |
David A. Carpenter (born 1947) is an English historian and writer, and Professor of Medieval History at King's College London where he has been working since 1988. Carpenter specialises in the life and reign of Henry III. Historian Dan Jones described him as "one of Britain's foremost medievalists".