Edmund King is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Sheffield, UK. He joined the History department at Sheffield in 1966 and has held a chair since 1989. He has held visiting fellowships at the Huntington Library, USA (where he was a Fulbright Scholar), and at All Souls College, Oxford, and he has taught also at the universities of Connecticut and Michigan in the USA. Edmund King has published widely in the field of Medieval British History.