George Stephen Garnett[1] FRHistS (born Watford, 1958[2]) is a British academic historian, specialising in late Anglo-Saxon and Norman England.
In 2014, the University of Oxford awarded him the title of Professor of Medieval History.
After obtaining his doctorate Garnett was appointed successively to a Research Fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge and a Teaching Fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
[7] Garnett specialises in the history of England between the tenth and thirteenth centuries and has studied the impact of the Norman Conquest on kingship and land-holding in his 2007 monograph Conquered England: Kingship, Succession, and Tenure.
He has subsequently studied the historiography of the Conquest, as well as late medieval early modern political writings about resistance.