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 medieval life such as doodles and tally sticks.

He has published on a wide variety of subjects, including the life-records of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, Tudor quarantine and social distancing, and the history of treason in the UK. Euan was also co-curator of the exhibition Treason: People, Power & Plot at The National Archives (2022-23). He is currently writing a book on the history and heritage of St George’s Chapel and College, Windsor Castle.

Research activity

Euan’s recent research has focused on infectious disease in pre-modern England, and on the life-records of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. He has recently published peer-reviewed articles on both subjects which presented evidence for the earliest quarantine measures used in England to control the spread of plague, and a new identification for Chaucer’s Canon in The Canterbury Tales, based on The National Archives’ collection of Chaucerian life-records.

Euan has also worked extensively on medieval hospitals and the history of pre-modern communities. His research to date has focused on St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, and the hospital community in the 15th century. He is also interested in late medieval and early Tudor book culture (currently researching the library of Reformation Bishop of Ely, Nicholas West), medieval and Tudor London, the study of religious architecture and archaeology, and pre-modern material culture.

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