Professor Christian Liddy's Outputs (2)

Cultures of Surveillance in Late Medieval English Towns: The Monitoring of Speech and the Fear of Revolt (2016)
Book Chapter
Liddy, C. D. (2016). Cultures of Surveillance in Late Medieval English Towns: The Monitoring of Speech and the Fear of Revolt. In J. Firnhaber-Baker, & D. Schoenaers (Eds.), The Routledge history handbook of medieval revolt (311-329). Routledge

The sheriffs, wrote John Carpenter in his 1419 book of the customs of London, ‘are called “the eyes of the mayor”’. They are ‘the eyes of the mayor, watchful and supportive of the responsibilities which the said mayor, as one person, is not able to b... Read More about Cultures of Surveillance in Late Medieval English Towns: The Monitoring of Speech and the Fear of Revolt.

'Sir ye be not kyng': Citizenship and Speech in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (2016)
Journal Article
Liddy, C. D. (2017). 'Sir ye be not kyng': Citizenship and Speech in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Historical Journal, 60(3), 571-596. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x16000108

Few would argue against the intimate relationship between citizenship and speech in early modern England. Historians of political thought and literary scholars have explored the cultural and political impact of the English Renaissance, which turned s... Read More about 'Sir ye be not kyng': Citizenship and Speech in Late Medieval and Early Modern England.