DHI London, Vortragsreihe Migration, Citizenship and Welfare in British History
W. Mark Ormrod (York)
Over the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the English state began to scrutinize more closely aliens living within its bounds, not least with a view to taxing them more heavily than their English-born counterparts. At the same time, it began to experiment with measures that allowed such aliens the medieval equivalent of national citizenship, known as denization. The lecture will examine the various motivations of the state and of immigrants during this formative period in English naturalization laws. W. Mark Ormrod is Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of York. He is the author of many books and articles on later medieval English history, including the Yale University Press ‘English Monarchs’ volume on Edward III (2011). His recent project on immigration to England in the later Middle Ages has generated the major online database, ‘England’s Immigrants, 1330–1550’: https:// www.englandsimmigrants.com.