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First Name
Susan
Last Name
Kilby
Country
United Kingdom
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Affiliation
University of Nottingham
Website URL
https://nottingham.academia.edu/SusanKilby
Keywords
Medieval, landscape, peasantry, memory
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PhD
PhD

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About Me

My work focuses on the complexity of peasants’ relationships with local landscape, ranging from their economic interests through to more culturally informed ideas, including conceptual notions of the landscape adopted by different community groups, the survival of cultural memory, and the landscape as a repository for local cultural capital. I am especially concerned with disentangling peasants’ views of their local environment from those of elites, which have tended to prevail within the historical record. I am also interested in medieval science, and the extent to which the lower orders understood some of the key principles of science, such as elemental and humoral theory.

Recent Publications
  • SUSAN KILBY, 2020. Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A Study of Three Communities University of Hertfordshire Press. (In Press.)
  • KILBY, SUSAN, 2019. Fantastic beasts and where to find them: the Romanesque capitals of St Kyneburgha’s church, Castor, and the local landscape Church Archaeology. 19, 53-72
  • CARROLL, JAYNE and KILBY, SUSAN, 2019. Preparing the ground: finding minor landscape names in medieval documents The Local Historian. 49(4), 276-300
  • MARK GARDINER and SUSAN KILBY, 2018. Perceptions of medieval settlement. In: C. GERRARD and A. GUTIERREZ, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology OUP. 210-225
  • SUSAN KILBY, 2017. Divining medieval water: the field-names of Flintham in Nottinghamshire Journal of the English Place-Name Society. 49, 53-89
  • RICHARD JONES, REBECCA GREGORY, SUSAN KILBY and BENJAMIN PEARS, 2017. Living with a trespasser: riparian names and medieval settlement on the River Trent floodplain Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies. 7, 33-64
  • SUSAN KILBY, 2015. Mapping peasant discontent: trespassing on manorial land in fourteenth-century Walsham-le-Willows Landscape History. 36(2), 69-88
  • SUSAN KILBY, 2010. Struggle and Enterprise: the experience of servile peasants in Wellingborough, 1258-1322 Midland History. 35(1), 7-27
  • SUSAN KILBY, 2010. A different world? Reconstructing the peasant environment in medieval Elton Medieval Settlement Research. 25, 72-77
  • RICHARD JONES and SUSAN KILBY, Mitigating riverine flood risk in medieval England. In: CHRIS GERRARD, PETER BROWN and PAOLO FORLIN, eds., Waiting for the end of the world. Archaeological perspectives on natural disasters in medieval Europe Routledge. (In Press.)
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Country Focus
England
Expertise by Geography
United Kingdom
Expertise by Chronology
Medieval
Expertise by Topic