Michael Jones (historian)

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Michael Christopher Emlyn Jones (born 5 December 1940) is a British historian.

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Michael Jones
Born	(1940-12-05) 5 December 1940 (age 84) Wrexham, Wales
Academic work
Discipline	history
Institutions	University of Nottingham
Main interests	French medieval history
Notable works	Recueil des actes de Jean IV, duc de Bretagne
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He was born in Wrexham, Wales. He studied history at Oxford, and taught in Exeter, then Nottingham from 1967 to 2002, specialising in French medieval history.

He is a member of British and Breton historical societies, including the Royal Historical Society (1971), la Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Bretagne (1972), Society of Antiquaries of London (1977), Société d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Pays de Retz (1985), Society for the Study of French History. He is a member of the Breton L'Ordre de l'Hermine and Correspondant de l'Institut. He is also a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[1]

Most of his works are about the ducal period of Brittany, and since his retirement he has also taken an interest in the local history of Nottinghamshire, especially that relating to Southwell Minster.

In 2023, volume 67 of the journal Nottingham Medieval Studies was published as a Festschrift in Jones's honour. Its theme was "Centres and peripheries in medieval Britain and France", and it included a bibliography of Jones's publications.