ABSTRACT
The methodology Mark employed, reading the chronicles carefully for their subtle and elusive assumptions about gender, pointed the way to future interdisciplinary research examining the layers of discourses within texts. Mark was possessed of a brilliant intellect. This was evident in the seemingly effortless way he produced the highest quality work on a regular basis for over thirty years. The culmination of this research was published in Immigrant England 1300-1550, which demonstrated the range and importance of knowledge that could be gleaned from a forensic investigation of English governmental records on medieval immigrants. The authors demonstrated that although first-generation immigrants accounted for only c.1.5 per cent of the population, their concentration in certain areas and in particular trades meant that in some places they were highly influential. The impact Mark had on the people understanding of the late medieval English political society was enormous, and his work will be cited and quoted for many generations to come.
