Research Staff:
Dr Max Lieberman
Honorary Research Associate at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
and
Junior Research Fellow in Mediaeval History at Wolfson College
Contact
Department of ASNC, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP
(+44-1223-335079)
Email: ml427@cam.ac.uk
Research Interests
Max Lieberman graduated at Zurich in 2000 and took his M.St. and D.Phil. in the University of Oxford (Merton College and Faculty of History, 2001, 2004). He has two main research interests: medieval frontiers and the origins of chivalry. Thus, he has lectured and published on the making of the March of Wales, that densely encastellated frontierland which between 1067 and 1284 was gradually staked out along the Anglo-Welsh border and the southern Welsh coast. His current research project, which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, investigates the origins of chivalric ideals in France and the British Isles, especially as revealed by the dubbing ceremony. Max Lieberman was a teaching assistant at Zurich and has taught undergraduate papers at Oxford and Cambridge, on archaeology and anthropology as approaches to history, on the English and Celtic peoples in the British Isles between 1150 and 1220, and on late Anglo-Saxon history.
Recent Publications
- 'Anglicization in High Medieval Wales. The Case of Glamorgan', Welsh History Review 23/1 (2006), pp. 1-26.
- 'Striving for Marcher Liberties: The Corbets of Caus in the Thirteenth Century', in M. Prestwich (ed.), Liberties and Identities in the Medieval British Isles (Woodbridge, 2008), pp. 141-54.
- 'The English and the Welsh in Fouke le Fitz Waryn', Thirteenth-Century England, 12 (forthcoming, Woodbridge, 2008).
- The March of Wales, 1067-1300: A Borderland of Medieval Britain (Cardiff, 2008).
- The Medieval March of Wales (forthcoming, Cambridge).