Alice Taylor is Professor of Medieval History at King's College, London. She received my doctorate in medieval history from the University of Oxford in 2009 and held a research fellowship at King’s College, Cambridge. Between 2014 and 2017, she was Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project Models of Authority: Scottish Charters and the Emergence of Government, 1100 - 1250 and, since 2017, she has led the collaborative project .