John Gillingham

John Bennett Gillingham (born 3 August 1940) is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. On 19 July 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Gillingham is renowned as an expert on the Angevin Empire.

Books Books by Gillingham: Richard the Lionheart (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978) The Wars of the Roses: peace and conflict in fifteenth-century England (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981) The Angevin Empire (E. Arnold, 1984) Richard Coeur de Lion: kingship, chivalry and war in the twelfth century (Hambledon Press, 1994) Richard I (Yale University Press, 1999) Part of the Yale English Monarchs Series The English in the Twelfth Century: imperialism, national identity, and political values (Boydell and Brewer, 2000) William II: The Red King (Allen Lane, 2015) Part of the Penguin Monarchs Series