Louis James Henry is a PhD Student in the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger, Norway. His research focuses on the responsibilities, expectations, and levels of accountability of local authority figures in late medieval English towns through the lens of sanitation and waste management. His masters degree at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge focused on waste management in late medieval Peterborough. His research interests revolve around the intersection of authority, community, sanitation, and law in England and Europe, during the later Middle Ages.