Professor Nigel Edward Saul

I have been teaching on the International Summer Programme for well over 10 years, and I enjoy returning each year both to meet new students and to renew my friendship with those who have come back. 

Although I am now retired, I taught medieval history in universities for 37 years, and my courses ranged over politics and the social and religious history of the period. I have published books on chivalry in England, on the reign of King Richard II and on the history of the English parish church. I was drawn to the Middle Ages by a love of the buildings that have come down to us from this period. Two of the finest of them, Ely Cathedral and King's College Chapel are to be found in or near Cambridge.