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British historian (1916?1985)
John Michael Wallace-Hadrill
,
CBE
,
FBA
,
FRHistS
(29 September 1916 – 3 November 1985) was a British academic and one of the foremost historians of the early
Merovingian period
.
Life and career
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Wallace-Hadrill was born on 29 September 1916 in
Bromsgrove
,
Worcestershire
, where his father was a master at
Bromsgrove School
.
[1]
He was
Professor
of
Mediaeval History
at the
University of Manchester
between 1955 and 1961. He then became a
Senior Research Fellow
of
Merton College
in the
University of Oxford
(where he held the office of Sub-Warden) from 1961 till 1974.
[2]
He was
Chichele Professor of Modern History
at
Oxford
from 1974 to 1983 and, between 1974 and 1985, a
Fellow
at
All Souls College
,
Oxford
.
He was elected a Fellow of the
British Academy
in 1969 and delivered the
Ford Lectures
in 1971. He was a Vice-President of the
Royal Historical Society
between 1973 and 1976. He was appointed a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
(CBE) in 1982. He is the father of the Roman historian
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
and the brother of church historian, D.S. Wallace-Hadrill.
[3]
Bibliography
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- The Barbarian West, 400?1000
(1952).
- The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with Its Continuations
(1960).
- The Long-haired Kings
(London, 1962).
- Early Germanic Kingship in England and the Continent
(Oxford, 1971).
- Early Medieval history
(1976).
- The Frankish Church
(1983).
- Ideal and reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon society: studies presented to J.M. Wallace-Hadrill
(1983).
- Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People: A Historical Commentary
(Oxford, 1988).
References
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Citations
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- ^
Wood 2005
- ^
Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964).
Merton College Register 1900?1964
. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 372.
- ^
Wallace-Hadrill, D.S. (1982). Christian Antioch:a Study of early Christian thought in the East. London: Cambridge University Press. "Forward" p. vii.
ISBN
0521234255
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