John Hunt is a medievalist whose approach is interdisciplinary, and whose interests include lordship and community, landscape, and cultural history, particularly in the English western midlands and southwestern France. Working primarily on regional history and archaeology between the tenth and fourteenth centuries, his currentresearch is focussed particularly on religious landscapes, parish churches and their communities, on which he has recently had several articles published.
John Hunt, BA, PhD, FSA, FRHistS, PGCE, is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Birmingham, where he is also a member of the Centre for West Midlands History. Among his associations with national and local societies, he is the current President of the Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society, and a past Chair (and current Vice-Chair) of the Council for British Archaeology, West Midlands.