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John Geoffrey Henry Hudson
, (born 7 May 1962)
FBA
,
FRSE
,
FRHistS
is an
English
medieval
historian
and
Latin
translator
. He is Professor of Legal History at the
University of St Andrews
and the
William W. Cook
Global Law Professor at the
University of Michigan Law School
. He was educated at
Worcester College, Oxford
(M.A. and D.Phil.) and the
University of Toronto
(M.A.).
Hudson specializes in Medieval (particularly Anglo-Norman) legal history. He is the author of Volume II of the
Oxford History of the Laws of England
(900-1216). He is also known for his monographs on the subject, especially on Anglo-Norman land law, as well as his edition, translation and commentary of the
Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis
. In 2006, he gave the
Selden Society
lecture to mark the centenary of
F.W. Maitland's
passing. In addition to scholarly books, chapters, articles and lectures, Hudson has also contributed to
The Times Literary Supplement
.
[1]
He was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
in 2014.
[2]
In 2016, Hudson was elected to the
British Academy
.
[3]
Books
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- Land, Law, and Lordship in Anglo-Norman England
(Oxford, 1994)
- The Formation of the English Common Law
(London, 1996)
- "Pollock and Maitland": Centenary Essays on the "History of English Law"
(Proceedings of the British Academy (89; 1996) (Hudson was editor)
- The History of the Church of Abingdon
, 2 vols, (Oxford, 2002 and 2007)
- F. W. Maitland and the Englishness of English Law
(Selden Society Lecture for 2006:published 2008)
- The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume II 871-1216
(Oxford, 2012)
In popular culture
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In a 2006 poll by
BBC History
magazine for "worst Briton" of the previous millennium, Hudson's nominee for worst Briton of the 12th century, the murdered
Archbishop of Canterbury
Saint
Thomas Becket
, came second behind
Jack the Ripper
.
[4]
The poll was dismissed as "daft" in
The Guardian
, and the result disputed by Anglicans and Catholics.
[4]
[5]
Historians had nominated one person per century, and for the 12th century John Hudson chose Becket for being "greedy", "hypocritical", "founder of gesture politics" and "master of the
soundbite
".
[4]
The
BBC
website
also quoted Hudson as saying "Those who share my prejudice against Becket may consider his assassination ... a fittingly grisly end."
[4]
The
BBC History
magazine editor suggested most other nominees were too obscure for voters.
[4]
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