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Catherine Hanley (born 1972) is a writer and researcher specialising in the Middle Ages.〔http://www.catherinehanley.co.uk〕 Hanley was born in Perth, Western Australia. She gained a degree and a PhD at the University of Sheffield and was a postdoctoral researcher there on the ''Partonopeus de Blois'' project.〔http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/partonopeus/〕 While working as an academic she published a number of articles on medieval warfare and its portrayal in contemporary narrative literature; she also wrote ''War and Combat 1150-1270: The Evidence from Old French Literature'' which was published by Boydell and Brewer in 2003.〔http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=12790〕 Her most recent scholarly writing was as a contributor to the ''Oxford Encyclopaedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology'' (Oxford University Press, 2010).〔http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Reference/?view=usa&ci=9780195334036〕 After leaving academia she started to write historical fiction, and is the author of a series of medieval murder mystery novels featuring Edwin Weaver as the central character. The novels are set against the backdrop of the baronial war in the early 13th century, when the nobles of England rebelled against King John and invited Prince Louis of France to take the throne, before some of them changed their minds following John’s death and the accession of his nine-year-old son Henry III. The first book in the series is ''The Sins of the Father'' (The History Press, 2012) which was Editor’s Choice in Historical Novels Review.〔http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/the-review.htm〕 The second book is ''The Bloody City'' (The History Press, 2013) and the third is ''Whited Sepulchres'' (The History Press, 2014). During the early 2000s Catherine Hanley also worked as a cricket writer,〔http://www.catherinehanley.co.uk/non-fiction〕 publishing articles in the UK in ''Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack'', ''Wisden Cricket Monthly'' and the website (wisden.com ), and in Australia in the magazine (''Inside Cricket'' ) and in the ''Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack Australia''. She made a brief return to cricket writing in 2013 with some articles for the (Wisden India ) website.〔http://www.wisdenindia.com/author/catherinehanley〕 ==External links== * (Website of Catherine Hanley ) * (Partonopeus de Blois project ) * (War and Combat 1150-1270: The Evidence from Old French Literature ) (Boydell and Brewer, 2003) - Google Books preview * (Oxford Encyclopaedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology ) (Oxford University Press, 2010) * (Historical Novels Review ) * (Wisden.com ) * (Inside Cricket ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catherine Hanley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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