David Norman Dumville (born 1949)

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David Dumville

DUMVILLE, Professor David Norman, PhD; FRHistS; FRSAI, FSAScot; Professor of Palaeography and Cultural History, University of Cambridge, since 1995; Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge, since 1978; born 5 May 1949; son of late Norman Dumville and Eileen Florence Lillie Dumville (née Gibbs); married 1st, 1974, Sally Lois Hannay (died 1989); one son; 2nd, 1990, Yoko Wada.

Educated: Emmanuel College, Cambridge (BA Hons, MA); Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, Munich; University of Edinburgh (PhD 1976). FRHistS 1976; FRSAI 1989; FSAScot 1999. Fellow, University of Wales, Swansea, 1975-77; Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, 1977-78; O'Donnell Lecturer in Celtic Studies, University of Oxford, 1977-78; Lecturer in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 1977-91; British Academy Research Reader in Humanities, 1985-87; Reader in Early Mediaeval History and Culture of British Isles, University of Cambridge, 1991-95. Research Associate, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1989- (Visiting Professor, 1996-97); Visiting Professor of Mediaeval Studies: UCLA, 1995; University of California, Berkeley, 1997. Vice-President, Centre International de Recherche et de Documentation sur le Monachisme Celtique, 1986-. Hon. MA Pennsylvania, 1979.

Publications:

• (with Kathryn Grabowski) Chronicles and Annals of Mediaeval Ireland & Wales, 1984
• (with Michael Lapidge) The Annals of St Neots, 1985
• The Historia Brittonum, 1985
• Histories and Pseudo-Histories of the Insular Middle Ages, 1990
• Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar, 1992
• Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History of Late Anglo-Saxon England, 1992
• Britons and Anglo-Saxons in the Early Middle Ages, 1993
• English Caroline Script and Monastic History, 1993
• Saint Patrick, 1993
• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 1995
• The Churches of North Britain in the First Viking Age, 1997
• Three Men in a Boat (inaugural lecture), 1997
• Councils and Synods of the Gaelic Early and Central Middle Ages, 1997
• A Palaeographer's Review, vol. 1 1999, vol. 2 2003
• Saint David of Wales, 2001
• Annabes Cambriae, 2002
• The Annals of Ulster, 2002
• (with Pádraig Ó Néill) Cáin Adomnáin and Canones Adomnani, 2003

Recreations: travelling in North America, politics and other arguments.

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