Levi Roach studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and Trinity College, Cambridge, obtaining his PhD from the latter in 2011. For the academic year 2011–12 he was a Research Scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge, and as of October 2012 he is a lecturer at the University of Exeter. His main academic interests lie in the history of Western Europe in the early and high Middle Ages, with a particular focus on England and Germany between the ninth and twelfth centuries. His work to date has focused on such themes as kingship and royal government, feudalism, and the influence of religious and theological thought on political practice.