About the Author

Johanna Dale is Research Fellow in the Department of History at UCL, where she previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her research is focused on the political and cultural history of the medieval period and her first book, Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century, was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize in 2020. As a resident of Essex, she has a long-standing interest in the medieval heritage of the county.