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History of Parliament Staff
Dr Hannes Kleineke
Senior Research Fellow, 1422-1504
Research
My work at the History of Parliament currently focuses primarily on the representatives of Devon and Cornwall and the parliamentary boroughs within these counties. These have included a range of pirates and other unsavoury characters, but also more prominent figures, such as the Yorkist earl of Devon, Humphrey Stafford of Southwick, and the Middlesex MP and Speaker Sir Thomas Charlton.
My research interests include the political, legal and administrative history of late medieval England, particularly of the south-west of England in the fifteenth century. I am currently preparing a volume of fifteenth-century legal texts relating to Parliament, and a new biography of King Edward IV.
With Dr. M.P. Davies, I am co-directing the AHRB-funded project ‘Londoners and the Law’, a study of Londoners’ use of the court of common pleas in the fifteenth century. I am Assistant Editor of The Fifteenth Century (published by Boydell and Brewer), and Joint Honorary General Editor of the London Record Society.
Publications
My principal publications include The Estate and Household Accounts of William Worsley, Dean of St. Paul’s, 1479-99 (Donnington, 2004) [ed., with S.R. Hovland]; ‘The Widening Gap: The Practice of Parliamentary Borough Elections in Devon and Cornwall in the Fifteenth Century’, in Parchment and People: Parliament in the Middle Ages ed. Linda Clark (Edinburgh, 2004); ‘Why the West was wild: Law and Disorder in Fifteenth Century Cornwall and Devon’, The Fifteenth Century III (Woodbridge, 2003); ‘The Commission De Mutuo Faciendo in the Reign of Henry VI’, English Historical Review, cxvi (2001); ‘Carleton’s Book: William FitzStephen’s “Description of London” in a late fourteenth-century common-place book’, Historical Research, 74 (2001).
My Essay ‘Lobbying and Access: The Canons of Windsor and the Matter of the Poor Knights in the Parliament of 1485’ was declared joint winner of the Parliamentary History Prize 2005.