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Stephen H. Rigby Stephen H. Rigby  (born 1955) is a British historian who is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Social and Economic History at the University of Manchester. He has published on medieval social and economic history, particularly urban history and also on medieval literature, medieval social theory and on the philosophy of history and modern social theory.

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Life and academic career

Bibliography

Life and academic career Born 17 May 1955, Chester, Cheshire. Rigby was educated at Ellesmere Port Grammar School, followed by the University of Sheffield, graduating with a degree in medieval and modern history in 1976. For his doctoral research, he moved to Bedford College, University of London where he was supervised by C. M. Barron. His PhD was awarded in 1983 for his thesis 'Boston and Grimsby in the Middle Ages'

Rigby was appointed Lecturer in History at the University of Manchester in 1979 and eventually became Professor of Medieval Social and Economic History there in 2004. He took early retirement in 2010. He has remained research active and has continued to edit the Manchester University Press 'Manchester Medieval Studies' series.

Rigby has published in a number of different areas, including medieval urban history, medieval society, medieval literature and medieval social and ethical thought. He has also published on Marxist historiography and on the philosophy of history.

Bibliography (for a complete bibliography, see Rigby's academia.edu page)

1. Books

Marxism and History: A Critical Introduction (Manchester University Press, 1987), vi + 314 pp.

Engels and the Formation of Marxism: History, Dialectics and Revolution (Manchester University Press, 1992), viii + 246 pp. Medieval Grimsby: Growth and Decline (Hull University Press, 1993), ix + 224 pp.

English Society in the Later Middle Ages: Class, Status and Gender (Macmillan, 1995). xii + 408 pp.

Chaucer in Context: Society, Allegory and Gender (Manchester University Press: Manchester Medieval Studies, 1996), xii + 205 pp.

Marxism and History: A Critical Introduction (2nd edition, Manchester University Press, 1998), xviii + 314 pp.

The Overseas Trade of Boston in the Reign of Richard II (Lincoln Record Society, 93, 2005), xxxviii + 302 pp.

Wisdom and Chivalry: Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and Medieval Political Theory (Brill, 2009), xvi + 329 pp.

Marxism and History: A Critical Introduction. Translated into Chinese with a new Preface (Yilin Publishing House, 2012), 389 pp.

Boston, 1086-1225: A Medieval Boom Town (Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2017), xi + 136 pp.

2. Edited collections

A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages (Blackwell, 2003), xviii + 665 pp.

Town and Countryside in the Age of the Black Death: Essays in Honour of John Hatcher, with Mark Bailey (Brepols, 2012), xxxvii + 472 pp.

Historians on Chaucer: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, with the assistance of Alastair J. Minnis (Oxford University Press, 2014), xx + 503 pp.

Historians on John Gower, with Siân Echard (D. S. Brewer: Publications of the John Gower Society, 2019), xxiv + 555 pp.

3. Articles include:

‘Historical causation: is one thing more important than another?’, History, 80 (1995), pp. 227-42.

‘Government, power and authority, 1300-1540’, (with E. Ewan), in D. Palliser, ed., Cambridge Urban History of Britain, volume I (Cambridge U. P., 2000), pp. 291-312.

‘The Wife of Bath, Christine de Pizan and the medieval case for women’, Chaucer Review, 35 (2000-01), 133-65.

‘Historical materialism: social structure and social change in the Middle Ages’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 34 (2004), pp. 473-522.

‘History, discourse and the postsocial paradigm: a revolution in historiography?’, History and Theory, 45 (2006), pp. 110-23.

'Social structure and economic change in late medieval England’, in R. Horrox and M. Ormrod, eds, A Social History of England, 1200-1500 (Cambridge U. P., 2006), pp. 1-30.

‘Urban population in late medieval England: the evidence of the lay subsidies’, Economic History Review, 63 (2010), pp. 393-417

‘Aristotle for aristocrats and poets: Giles of Rome's De regimine principum as theodicy of privilege’, Chaucer Review, 46 (2011-12), pp. 259-313

‘The body politic in the social and political thought of Christine de Pizan (unabridged version)’, Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales et Humanistes [on-line], Études christiniennes, mis en ligne le 12 mars 2013. URL : http://crm.revues.org/12965

‘Worthy but wise? Virtuous and non-virtuous forms of courage in the later middle ages’, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 35 (2013), pp. 329-71.