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Biography
Neil Murphy was born and raised in Hawaii. With a strong influence of Polynesian and Asian art from his childhood, Neil launched into studying fine art and Eastern philosophy at the University of Hawaii. He moved to the mainland to attend the San Francisco Art Institute and began his education in printmaking with a focus in stone lithography. He explored painting and was highly influenced by Kandinsky and Klee’s sense of whimsy and play. With an opportunity to take a job in graphic and sound design at Amazing Life Games shortly before graduation, Neil left SFAI to navigate a hands-on education resulting in visual design, audio engineering, and electronic music composition. Skills and techniques used in those fields take an active role in his media works today.
In 1974 his work was part of a group drawing exhibition at the SFMOMA entitled MIX GRAPHICS II where he showed a series of works depicting streams and water flow using architectural blueprints as his media. That exhibition was pivotal and resulted in solo San Francisco, CA. exhibits at the Wenger Gallery in
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Professor Neil Murphy
Professor
Department: Humanities
My main interests lie in the history of later medieval and early modern France, especially the period 1300 to 1600, as well as war and foreign relations during the reign of Henry VIII. I work principally from archival materials and I am also the reviews editor of the journal Archives.
Research Themes and Scholarly Interests
I joined Northumbria in 2012 and was made Professor of History in 2020 and have published five books and thirty articles/chapters on a wide range of topics. In particular, I have written extensively on the history of medieval and early modern France, from the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries. My first book (Brill, 2016) examined the ceremonial entries of French monarchs in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance, and argues that they provided moments of negoiation between the king and urban elites who sought to win new privileges in return for staging these ceremonies. My second book (Palgrave, 2016) focused on the court of John II (the Good) during his period of captivity following his cap
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