Jean Dunbabin

Summary

Jean Hymers Dunbabin (born 1939) is an honorary fellow of St Anne's College, University of Oxford.[3] Dunbabin specialises in medieval political communities in France c. 1000-c.1350, and in southern Italy and Sicily 1250–1310, and medieval political thought. She is a fellow of the British Academy - since 2024, Emeritus Fellow.[4]

Jean Dunbabin
Born1939 (age 85–86)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Historian and academic
SpouseJohn Dunbabin (1962)
ChildrenBridget (b. 1965), Penny (b. 1967)
Academic background
ThesisEthical problems as discussed by masters of arts and theologians in the thirteenth century universities (1964)
Doctoral advisorDaniel Callus
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
Doctoral studentsMatthew Kempshall
Jörg Peltzer[1]
Joseph Ziegler[2]

Dunbabin has contributed to The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy, The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350–c.1450, and The New Cambridge Medieval History.[5] She edited The English Historical Review from 1999 to 2004.[6]

Personal life

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Dunbabin is married to John Dunbabin (1962) and has two daughters, Bridget (b. 1965) and Penny (1967)

Selected publications

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  • France in the Making, 843-1180, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985. (2nd ed. 2000)[7]
  • "Government", in Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought, c. 350 - c.1450, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988, pp. 477 – 519.
  • A Hound of God. Pierre de la Palud and the Fourteenth-Century Church, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991. ISBN 0198222912
  • Charles I of Anjou: Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe, 1998. (Medieval World Series)[8]
  • Captivity and Imprisonment in Medieval Europe, 1000 - 1300, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, 2002. ISBN 0333647157[9]
  • "The household and entourage of Charles I of Anjou, king of the Regno, 1266-85", Historical Research, 77 (197), 2004, pp. 313–336.
  • The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266-1305, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011. ISBN 978-0521198783[10]

References

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  1. ^ "Peltzer".
  2. ^ "הפקולטה למדעי הרוח I אוניברסיטת חיפה I המחלקה להיסטוריה כללית Department of General History I Haifa University I Faculty of Humanities - Prof. Joseph Ziegler".
  3. ^ Dr. Jean Dunbabin. University of Oxford, Faculty of History. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  4. ^ Dr Jean Dunbabin. Archived 2015-10-03 at the Wayback Machine British Academy. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  5. ^ Dunbabin, Jean. Cambridge Histories Online. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  6. ^ Rosemary Mitchell (2018). "Women in the English Historical Review". The English Historical Review. 139 (596): e30.
  7. ^ "Reviewed Works: France in the Making, 843-1180 by Jean Dunbabin; Les origines by Karl Ferdinand Werner; Naissance de la nation France by Collette Beaune" T.N. Bisson, Speculum, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Oct., 1987), pp. 929-933.
  8. ^ "Jean Dunbabin, Charles I of Anjou: Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe. (The Medieval World) &c." Carola M. Small, Speculum, Vol. 75 (1), January 2000, pp. 173-174.
  9. ^ Captivity and Imprisonment in Medieval Europe, 1000-1300. Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  10. ^ Jean Dunbabin. The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266–1305. G.A. Loud, The American Historical Review, 119 (2), 2014, pp. 582-583.

Sources

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  • d’Avray, David (28 February 2020). "Jean Dunbabin: A Scholarly Appreciation". The English Historical Review. 139 (596): e1 – e11. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceaa002..
  • d’Avray, David (30 March 2020). "Jean Dunbabin: Principal Publications". The English Historical Review. 139 (596): e12 – e14. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceaa001..