David Dumville

Professor David Norman Dumville (b. May 5th, 1949) is a British medievalist and Celtic scholar. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, Munich, and received his PhD. at the University of Edinburgh in 1976. In 1974, he married Sally Lois Hannay, with whom he had one son. She died in 1989.

He is currently the Professor of History and Palaeography at the University of Aberdeen, but has previously taught or held posts at the University of Wales, Swansea (Fellow, 1975-77), the University of Pennsylvania (Assistant Professor of English, 1977-78), the University of Cambridge, (Lecturer in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, 1977-91; Reader in Early Mediaeval History and Culture of British Isles, 1991-95; Professor of Palaeogrpahy and Cultural History, 1995-2005), and University of California, Berkeley, (1997). He was also a Visiting Professor at UCLA (1995) and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (1996-97).

David Dumville's list of publications over the years is simply enormous; the following list does not include his huge number of journal articles:

(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
Annales Cambriae, 2002
The Annals of Ulster, 2002
(with Pádraig Ó Néill) Cáin Adomnáin and Canones Adomnani, 2003

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