Rosemary Elizabeth Horrox,^[1]FRHistS (born 21 May 1951) is anEnglishhistorian, specialising in thepolitical culture oflate medieval England,patronage andsociety.^[2]

She is aFellow and retired Director of Studies in History atFitzwilliam College at theUniversity of Cambridge.^[2] She is an affiliated lecturer in history at Cambridge'sInstitute of Continuing Education.^[3]

She studied atSouth Park High School, Lincoln and received herBachelor of Arts (BA),Master of Arts (MA) andDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) from theUniversity of Cambridge,^[4] the latter being a study of royal patronage underKing Richard III of England. She studied for this atNewnham College under the supervision ofG.L. Harriss, whose suggestion it had been, and it was awarded in March 1977.^[1] More recently, her interests have expanded into the relationship betweenlocal- andcentral government,^[5] theBlack Death,^[6] medieval female authority, and queenship. As well as lecturing full-time at Cambridge, she also lectures privately^[7][8] and forhigh schools,^[9] and campaigned against the dissolution of theAS Level in 2013.^[10]

During the 2012–15 controversy surrounding theburial place of the recently discovered bones of Richard III, she supported the claim ofYork to be the most fitting final resting place for the lastPlantaganet king, saying that the dead king's "self-identification with the North is reflected in his plans for a chantry of 100 priests in York Minster, where he surely hoped to be buried."^[11][12]

She is a Fellow of theRoyal Historical Society^[13] andGeneral Editor of theCambridgeshire Records Society.^[14] and is a general editor forThe Parliament Rolls of Medieval England project, which transcribed, translated, and published digitally and in print, theRolls of Parliament.^[15][16]

• Cambridge Social History of England, 1200–1500 editor withMark Ormrod (Cambridge, 2006).
• Much Heaving and Shoving: Late-Medieval Gentry and their Concerns: Essays for Colin Richmond editor, with Margaret Aston (Chipping, 2005).
• ‘Service’ inFifteenth Century Attitudes: Perceptions of Society in Late Medieval England, and editor, (Cambridge, 1994).
• ‘Personality and Politics’ inThe Wars of the Roses: Problems In Focus, ed.A. J. Pollard (Basingstoke, 1995).
• Richard III: A Study of Service (Cambridge, 1989).
• The Black Death editor (Manchester University Press, 1994)

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• Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
• English women historians
• Fellows of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
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• 20th-century English historians
• 21st-century English historians
• 1951 births
• 21st-century English women writers
• 20th-century English women writers
• Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
• Academics of the Institute of Continuing Education

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