Nicholas Vincent | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 64–65) |
| Occupation | Professor of Medieval History |
Nicholas Charles Vincent (born 1961) is a British historian, Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia since 2003.
Born in 1961, Vincent was a Bracegirdle exhibitioner at St Peter's College, Oxford, graduating in Modern History BA (1983, tutored by Henry Mayr-Harting), subsequently MA, MPhil (1987) and DPhil (1993, supervised by John Maddicott). After school-mastering in Bristol, Buckinghamshire, and Switzerland, he was elected William Stone Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge, from 1990 to 1995. He then moved to Canterbury Christ Church University, as Reader, promoted Professor in 1999 . In 2003, he was appointed Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. Since 1997, he has been Director of the British Academy's Plantagenet Acta Project, entrusted with publication of the charters of the Plantagenet kings. He is a member of the steering committees of the British Academy's Anglo-Saxon Charters, Anglo-Norman Charters, and English Episcopal Acta research projects.
Vincent has been elected to fellowships of the Royal Historical Society (1995), the Society of Antiquaries of London (1999), and the British Academy (2010), to membership of the Commission internationale de diplomatique (2014), to Corresponding Fellowship of the Medieval Academy of America (2022), and to Honorary Membership of the Royal Irish Academy (2025). He has held visiting fellowships or professorships at Peterhouse, Cambridge, All Souls College Oxford, the Université de Poitiers, and the École Nationale des Chartes.