Dr Euan Roger

About

Euan is a historian of late medieval and Tudor England, specialising in the period from the 14th through to the 16th centuries. His work focuses on the records of late medieval and early Tudor English government, the central law courts, and the secular clergy, as well as material from everyday life such as marginalia and tally sticks.

He has published on a wide variety of subjects, including the life-records of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, medieval hospitals and quarantine measure, and the history of treason in the UK. He is co-lead of the AHRC funded project Rediscovering the Tudor Domesday (2026-2029), and is currently writing a monograph on the history and heritage of St George’s College, Windsor Castle, 1416-1546.

Euan was also co-curator of the exhibition Treason: People, Power & Plot at The National Archives (2022-23). He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is currently Honorary Secretary of the List and Index Society.

Research activity

Euan has published several articles on the life-records of Geoffrey Chaucer, including the discovery and publication in 2022 of legal records which provided new evidence leading to a radically different understanding of a much-discussed moment in the poet’s life. He is particularly interested in the legal collections at The National Archives, and how they can shed light on broader social and cultural histories, not purely the development of the law.

Euan’s previous research project has also focused on medical provisions in medieval and Tudor England, including attempts to limit the spread of disease, and measures to licence or regulate medical care, particularly in London. This has included the discovery of evidence for the earliest quarantine measures used in England to control the spread of plague and on the development of hospitals in the fifteenth century. He is currently researching attempts to regulate unlicensed medical practitioners in the early Tudor period, and the development of surgery in this period.

He is also interested in late medieval and early Tudor book culture and is currently also researching the library of Reformation Bishop of Ely, Nicholas West, as well as medieval and Tudor London more broadly, the study of religious architecture and archaeology, and pre-modern material culture.

Euan is currently supervising two AHRC funded interdisciplinary doctoral students, one with Professor Orietta Da Rold at Cambridge on the use and reception of paper in medieval legal and administrative centres, and one with Professor Marion Turner at Oxford on Chaucer’s Thameside life.

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