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Jacob Currie is currently working towards an MPhil in Medieval History at Trinity College. He completed his BA (Hons) at the University of Toronto in Canada, where he majored in Medieval Studies and Latin; his undergraduate thesis was a critical edition of a twelfth-century Latin episcopal vita relating to the period of political upheaval known as ‘The Anarchy’ under King Stephen (1135-1154). His current research is funded by Trinity College through an External Research Studentship. For his MPhil dissertation Jacob is pursuing his larger interests in Latin historiography and in the social history of later-fourteenth-century England through a local study of the rising of 1381, provisionally entitled ‘Thomas Walsingham and the Causes of the Peasants’ Revolt in St Albans’ and supervised by Professor Christine Carpenter. Through studying both contemporary Latin historiographical responses to the revolt and the surviving manorial and legal records of St Albans Abbey in this period, he hopes to better understand the social, economic, and conceptual changes which took place in the relationship between large landlords and their tenants in the thirty years after the Black Death.
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