Baylor > History > Faculty > Jeffrey Hamilton

Education

• B.A., Tufts University, 1977
• M.A., Emory University, 1980
• Ph.D., Emory University, 1982

Research Interests

My research focuses primarily on the political history of 13th- and 14th-century England. I recently published The Plantagenets: History of a Dynasty (London and New York: Continuum, 2010), and am currently working on several articles relating to the household knights of Edward II, a topic on which I presented during a one-day conference on the reign of Edward II at the National Archives in London this past July. I continue to serve on the editorial board of Fourteenth Century England. My longer term research goal continues to be a political biography of Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln (d. 1311).

Selected Publications

• The Plantagenets: History of a Dynasty (London and New York; Continuum, 2010).
• "King Edward II of England and the Templars," in The Debate on the Trial of the Templars, (1307-1314), ed. J. Burgtorf, P. F. Crawford, and H. J. Nicholson (Abingdon: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 215-24.
• "The Uncertain Death of Edward II?" History Compass 6 (2008), pp. 1264-78.
• "The Character of Edward II: The Letters of Edward of Caernarfon Reconsidered," in The Reign of Edward II, ed. G. Dodd and A. Musson, (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006), pp. 1-26.
• Witness Lists to the Royal Charter Rolls of Edward II 1307-1326, ed. J. S. Hamilton, (Kew: List and Index Society, Public Record Office, vol. 288, 2001).
• "Menage a Roi: Edward II, and Piers Gaveston," History Today 49:6 (1999) pp. 26-31.
• Another Daughter for Piers Gaveston?" Medieval Prosopography 19 (1998), pp. 177-86.
• "Piers Gaveston and the Royal Treasure," Albion 23 (1991), pp. 201-7.
• Documenting the Past: Essays in Medieval History Presented to George Peddy Cuttino, ed. J. S. Hamilton and P. J. Bradley. (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1989).
• Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, 1307-1312: Politics and Patronage in the Reign of Edward II, (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988).

Courses Taught

• HIS 1305, World History to 1500
• HIS 4326, Early Medieval Europe
• HIS 4327, Europe in the High Middle Ages
• HIS 4328, Medieval Britain