Participant Info
- First Name
- Erika
- Last Name
- Graham-Goering
- Country
- Norway
- State
- e.m.graham-goering@iakh.uio.no
- Affiliation
- University of Oslo
- Website URL
- https://www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english/people/aca/history/tenured/erikagra/
- Keywords
- lordship, power, power-sharing, medieval history, France, Brittany, Languedoc, reputation, state-building, gender, succession, comparative history, archives
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
I am an associate professor of medieval history specializing in issues related to lordship and power in what is now France (especially in Brittany and Languedoc) during the period of the Hundred Years’ War.
My current work, initially funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), focused on comparative practices of co-lordship and aristocratic power-sharing. Basically, I am investigating why people with claims to power ended up sharing it, and to what extent they had to cooperate to make it all work.
To date, my publications have stemmed on one hand from my research on princely power in fourteenth-century Brittany, where I have looked at questions of status and hierarchy, collaborative power, the inheritance and exercise of lordship by noblewomen, and the way leadership and reputation was portrayed in chronicles and history-writing; and on the other hand, from my work on regional lordship in southern France, which deals with issues of state formation, elite networks, and local power.
I have extensive experience researching in national and regional archives across France, and have edited a variety of late medieval administrative and legal texts.
My media appearances include speaking on the BBC’s In Our Time series about the Battle of Crécy.
- Recent Publications
Erika Graham-Goering, Jim van der Meulen and Frederik Buylaert (eds), Lordship and the Decentralized State in Late Medieval Europe (Oxford: British Academy, 2025).
Erika Graham-Goering, “Empowering Lordship in the Registers of Homage to Charles VI (Languedoc, 1389–1390),” French Historical Studies 45 (2022): 381–413.
Erika Graham-Goering, Princely Power in Late Medieval France: Jeanne de Penthièvre and the War for Brittany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Erika Graham-Goering, “Authority, reputation, and the roles of Jeanne de Penthièvre in Book I of Froissart’s Chroniques,” Journal of Medieval History 45.1 (2019): 100–127.
Erika Graham-Goering, Michael Jones, and Bertrand Yeurc’h, eds., Aux origines de la guerre de succession de Bretagne: Documents (1341–1342) (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes/Société d’histoire et d’archéologie de Bretagne, 2019).
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @jeanneologist.bsky.social
- Country Focus
- France
- Expertise by Geography
- France, Western Europe
- Expertise by Chronology
- Medieval
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Government, Law, Local & Regional, Politics, Women
