England’s Immigrants 1330-1550: Resident Aliens in the Later Middle Ages

England’s Immigrants 1330-1550: Resident Aliens in the Later Middle Ages

Lecture by Bart Lambert

Paper given at Medieval and Early Modern Records Seminar held in Leeds, on August 2, 2014

Project Overview:

• Funded by AHRC
• March 2012 – February 2015
• Partnership between the University of York, The National Archives and the National Humanites Reseach Institute, Sheffield
• Core aim of project – to explore the resident alien population of England, 1350-1550

Research Questions

• People: who, where, when and how?
• Rules: central and local definitions, regulations and policy-making?
• Work: role in economy?
• Culture: integration or ‘ghetto-isation’ in host society?

See also Immigrants made up 1% of the population in Medieval England, researchers find