Phillipp Schofield

Phillipp Richard Schofield FLSW is a medieval historian and a professor in Aberystwyth University's Department of History and Welsh History.

Career

Schofield graduated from University College London in 1986, with a BA in ancient and medieval history. He then undertook a doctorate at Wadham College, Oxford, under the supervision of Barbara Harvey: his DPhil was awarded in 1992 for his thesis "Land, family and inheritance in a later medieval community: Birdbrook, 1292–1412". After spending a year working for a commercial law firm, Schofield returned to the University of Oxford to take up a research position at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine in 1993. Three years later, he took up a post in the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure at the University of Cambridge, before joining Aberystwyth University in 1998. As of 2018, he is a Professor in the Department of History and Welsh History; he is currently head of that department. He understands and speaks Welsh. Since 2011, he has been co-editor of the Economic History Review, a scholarly journal. Schofield's research focuses on the English medieval rural economy and society.

Peasants and Historians: Debating the Medieval English Peasantry, Manchester Medieval Studies series.
Seals and Society: Medieval Wales, the Welsh Marches and Their English Border Counties .
Peasants and Lords in the Medieval English Economy: Essays in Honour of Bruce M. S. Campbell.
Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages.
Property Rights, Land Markets and Economic Growth in the European Countryside.
Wales and the Welsh in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to J. Beverley Smith
Credit and the Rural Economy in North-Western Europe, c. 1200–c. 1850.
The Development of Leasehold in Northwestern Europe, c. 1200–1600.
Making History: An Introduction to the History and Practices of a Discipline.
Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200–1500.
''Credit and Debt in Medieval England, c. 1180–c. 1350.''