David Dumville
David Norman Dumville (born 5 May 1949) is a British medievalist and Celtic scholar. He attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; and received his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1976, presenting the thesis "The textual history of the Welsh-Latin Historia Brittonum".[1] He is professor emeritus of Celtic & Anglo-Saxon at the University of Aberdeen. He has previously taught or held posts at Swansea University (Fellow, 1975–1977), the University of Pennsylvania (assistant professor of English, 1977–1978), and the University of Cambridge, (lecturer in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, 1977–1991; reader in early Mediaeval history and culture of British Isles, 1991–1995; professor of palaeography and cultural history, 1995–2005). Among other academic appointments, he was visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (1995).[2][3]
Publications
Dumville has produced numerous scholarly articles and books. In 2007, he established a scholarly journal for Anglo-Saxon studies, entitled Anglo-Saxon, which ceased after one issue. He was a founding member of the Medieval Chronicle Society.
References
- ^ Dumville, David Norman (1975). Textual History of the Welsh-Latin Historia Brittonum (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/8972. Archived from the original on 25 October 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
- ^ "Professor David Dumville". Staff directory. University of Aberdeen.
- ^ "David Dumville (b 1949)". dumville.org.
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