Michael Christopher Emlyn Jones (born 5 December 1940) is a British historian.
He was born in
Wrexham,
Wales. He studied history at
Oxford, and taught in
Exeter, then
Nottingham from 1967 to 2002, specialising in French medieval history.
Most of his works are about the
ducal period of Brittany, but since his retirement he has also taken an interest in the local history of Nottinghamshire, especially that relating to
Southwell Minster.
Publications
Ducal Brittany 1364-1399: Relations with England and France during the Reign of Duke John IV, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1970, reprinted Sandpiper 1997
The Creation of Brittany: A Late Medieval State, London, Hambledon 1988
The Bretons (with Patrick Galliou), Oxford, Blackwell 1991
Between France and England: Politics, Power and Society in Late Medieval Brittany, Ashgate 2003
Letters, Orders and Musters of Bertrand du Guesclin, 1357-1380, Boydell 2004
In French
Recueil des actes de Jean IV, duc de Bretagne, (3 vols) 1980–2001
La Bretagne ducale. Jean IV de Montfort (1364-1399) entre la France et l'Angleterre, 1998.
Les châteaux de Bretagne, Ouest-France, with Gwyn Meirion-Jones, Rennes, 1992
Les Anciens Bretons des origines au XVe siècle, with Patrick Galliou, 1993
Catalogue sommaire des archives du Fonds Lebreton, Abbaye Saint-Guénolé, Landevennec, Nottingham, 1998.
Recueil des actes de Charles de Blois et Jeanne de Penthièvre, duc et duchesse de Bretagne (1341-1364) suivi des Actes de Jeanne de Penthièvre (1364-1384), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes 1996
Le Premier Inventaire du Trésor des Chartes des ducs de Bretagne (1395). Hervé Le Grant et les origines du Chronicon Briocense, Soc. Histoire et d'Archeologie de Bretagne 2007
Comptes du duché de Bretagne. Les comptes, inventaires et execution des testaments ducaux, 1262-1352, Rennes, 2017, with Philippe Charon