Adam Chapman
Originally from Somerset, he completed his BA at University of East Anglia in 2002 and continued to complete an MA in Medieval History in 2003.
During my time there, I specialised in landscape history, and the institutions of government and the connections between them, in particular what might be termed ‘landscapes of lordship’, that is the use of landscape features, natural and man-made to reinforce the image and idea of lordship. To this end, his MA dissertation, supervised by Dr Rob Liddiard examined the landscape of the Episcopal Palace of the bishops of Norwich at Gaywood, immediately outside the town of Bishop’s Lynn (now of course, King’s Lynn).
I joined the AHRC-funded Soldier Project in 2006 as the Doctoral Research Studentship on this project, working under the supervision of Anne Curry at Southampton. the resulting thesis examined not only the role of the Welsh in England’s wars but the influence of military experience on the communities, politics and leadership of the diverse lands of Wales from the late thirteenth to the mid-fifteenth century and is currently under preparation for publication. Subsequently, I have worked on a number of projects with other academics and organisations including the AHRC-funded Guto'r Glyn Project at the University of Wales, examining the life, career and poetry of Guto'r Glyn, an archer in the Lancastrian Normandy in the 1440s and poet, active from the 1430s to the 1490s. I am currently engaged in research for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales on historic battlefields.
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