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Richard Holt

Professer

Phone (+47)
77 64 57 98

E-mail
richardh@sv.uit.no

Biographical Data
Født 1948 i Lowestoft, England. M.A. University of Birmingham, 1975. Ph.D. University of Birmingham, 1987. Lektor Handsworth College, Birmingham 1970. Forskningsstipendiat 1979, Research Fellow 1984 og etterpå lektor i middelalderens historie i University of Birmingham. Førsteamanuensis i middelalderhistorie Tromsø 1998. Personlig opprykk til professor fra 2001.

Professional fields of interest
* Byer i middelalderen
* Teknologisk utvikling og produksjon i middelalderen
* Bruk av vannkraft og vindkraft i middelalderen
* Økonomisk og sosial historie i middelalderen generelt

Research Projects
* Norsk byer og samfunn i middelalderen
* Planlegging og sosial geografi i middelalderens byer
* Bury St. Edmunds: endring og utvikling i kloster og by ca.1200
* Var det en utvikling i bruk av vannkraft etter Svartedauen?

Publications
Bøker
* The Mills of Medieval England, (Blackwell: Oxford, 1988)

* (med Gervase Rosser) The Medieval Town 1200-1540, (Longman. London and New York, 1990)

Artikler:
- Population and society c650-1300', i David Palliser (red.), Cambridge Urban History of Britain, vol. I (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2000)

- 'Medieval England's water-related technologies', i Paolo Squatriti (red.), Working with Water in Medieval Europe (Brill: Leiden etc. 2000), s.51-100

- 'Towards a geography of sexual encounter: prostitution in English medieval towns', (med Nigel Baker) i L. Bevan (red.), Indecent Exposure:
Sexuality, Society and the Archaeological Record (Cruithne Press: Glasgow, 2000), s.187-98

- 'The origin of urban parish boundaries', (med Nigel Baker) i Terry Slater og Gervase Rosser (red.), The Church in the Medieval Town (Ashgate: Aldershot, 1998), s.209-35

- 'Mechanization and the medieval English economy', i Elizabeth Bradford Smith and Michael Wolfe (reds.), Technology and Resource Use in Medieval Europe: Cathedrals, Mills and Mines (Ashgate: Aldershot, 1997), s.139-57

- 'The City of Worcester in the tenth century', (med Nigel Baker) i Nicholas Brooks og Catherine Cubitt (red.), St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence (Leicester University Press: Leicester, 1996), s.129-46

- 'Medieval technology and the historians: the evidence for the mill', i Robert Fox (red.), Technological Change: Methods and Themes in the History of Technology (Brill: Leiden etc., 1996), s.103-21

- 'The medieval market town', i Peter Clark og Lyn Murfin (red.), The History of Maidstone: The Making of a Modern County Town (Alan Sutton: Stroud, 1995), chapter 2, s.20-40