Maurice Keen

Maurice Hugh Keen (born 1933) is a British historian specialising in the Middle Ages. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, where he lectured in Medieval history from 1961-2000.

In 1984 he won the Wolfson History Prize for his book Chivalry.

He also appears in the 1989 fictional novel The Negotiator by Frederick Forsyth.

He also wrote The Outlaws of Medieval Legend as a Junior Research Fellow at Queen's College, Oxford

Selected works

• (1965) The Laws of War in the Late Middle Ages, Routledge & K.Paul
• (1968) The Pelican History of Medieval Europe, Routledge Kegan & Paul
• (1973) England in the Late Middle Ages, London : Mathuen, ISBN 0-416-75990-4
• (1978) The Outlaws of Medieval Legend Univ of Toronto Press, ISBN 0-8020-1612-X
• (1984) Chivalry, USA: Yale University Press ISBN 0-300-03150-5
• (1986) Some Late Mediaeval Views on Nobility, University of London, ISBN 0-7187-0760-5
• (1996) Nobles, Knights and Men-at-arms in the Middle Ages, Hambledon Continuum, ISBN 1-85285-087-6
• (1999) Medieval Warfare: A History. Oxford University Press
• (2002) Origins of the English Gentleman, Stroud: Tempus, ISBN 0-7524-2558-7
• (2010) Chivalry, London : The Folio Society

See also

• A History of England
• The Negotiator (novel)

External links

• Portrait at Balliol web site

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