Ruth Frost

Department Head, Associate Professor

History

Office: ART 314
Phone: 250.807.9407
Email: ruth.frost@ubc.ca

Research Summary

Late medieval English urban history.

Degrees

PhD, History, University of Cambridge
MA, Medieval Studies, University of York, UK

Selected Publications & Presentations

“A Common Clerk as Courtholder: Geoffrey Spirleng in Late Medieval Norwich.” Florilegium 34 (2017): 7-26. Volume published in 2021.

“The Evolution of Personal Pledging for the Freemen of Norwich, 1365-1441.” Quidditas 39 (2018): 94-119. Quidditas is the online journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association.

“A Brief Note on Geoffrey Spirleng, Co-Scribe of MS Hunter 197 (U.1.1), and His Compilation of the Old Free Book of Norwich, NRO, NCR Case 17c.” Journal of the Early Book Society 19 (2016): 241-48.

“The Urban Elite.” In Medieval Norwich, edited by Carole Rawcliffe and Richard Wilson, 235-253. London: Hambledon and London, 2004.

“The Archiepiscopal Indulgences for the City of York 1450-1500.” Edited with Ben Nilson. In The Church in Medieval York: Records edited in honour of Professor Barrie Dobson, edited by D.M. Smith, 113-22. Borthwick Texts and Calendars 24. York: University of York, 1999.