Roger Highfield (historian)

John Roger Loxdale Highfield (14 February 1922 – 13 April 2017) was an English historian of medieval Europe and fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford.[1][2] His contribution to the study of medieval Spain was recognised by his appointment to the Order of Isabella the Catholic in 1989.[3]

J. R. L. Highfield
Roger Highfield
Born(1922-02-14)14 February 1922
Died13 March 2017(2017-03-13) (aged 95)
NationalityBritish
OccupationHistorian, fellow
Known forMedieval history

Selected publications
Roger Highfield in Cornwall in 1990
  • The Early Rolls of Merton College, Oxford; with an appendix of thirteenth-century Oxford charters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964
  • Europe in the Late Middle Ages. London: Faber, 1970. (Edited with J. R. Hale & B. Smalley)
  • Spain in the Fifteenth Century, 1369-1516: essays and extracts by historians of Spain. London: Macmillan, 1972. (Editor) ISBN 0333111354
  • The Crown and Local Cmmunities in England and France in the Fifteenth Century. London: Sutton, 1981. (Edited with Robin Jeffs) ISBN 0904387674
  • Oxford and Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. (With Christopher Brooke) ISBN 0521301394
  • A History of Merton College, Oxford. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. (with G. H. Martin) ISBN 0199201838
  • Registrum annalium Collegii Mertonensis, 1603-1660. Woodbridge: Boydell Press/Oxford Historical Society, 2006. ISBN 0904107205

See also

References
  1. Dr Roger Highfield 1922-2017. Merton College Oxford, April 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  2. Obituary: Roger Highfield. The Times, 22 May 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  3. Merton College obituary

Further reading
  • Lomax, Derek W. & Mackenzie, David (eds.) (1989) God and Man in Medieval Spain: Essays in honour of J. R. L. Highfield. Warminster: Aris & Phillips. ISBN 0856684430


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