David Luscombe

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David Edward Luscombe (born July 22, 1938 ) is a British historian . Luscombe taught as Professor of Medieval History at the University of Sheffield from 1973 to 2003.

life and work

David Luscombe attended school in London in the 1940s and 1950s. From 1956 to 1964 he was a student and research fellow at King's College Cambridge . He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a bachelor's degree in 1959 . He was an academic student of David Knowles . He received his doctorate ( Ph.D. ) from Cambridge . From 1964 to 1972 he was a fellow and director of studies at Churchill College . At the University of Sheffield he taught from 1973 until his retirement in 2003 as a professor of medieval history. From 1995 to 2000 he was Leverhulme Personal Research Professor of Medieval History. He had research stays at the University of Connecticut (1993) and at Oxford All Souls College (1994). He is a member of the Royal Historical Society in London, a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and was admitted to the British Academy . From 1991 to 1997 he was the Publications Secretary for the British Academy. From 1997 to 2002 he was President of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Philosophy (SIEPM). He holds a Doctor of Literature (LittD) from the University of Cambridge. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Sheffield (LittD honoris causa)

Luscombe was one of the editors of the prestigious British handbook The New Cambridge Medieval History from 1024 to 1198. He studied Abelard's work extensively for many decades . The starting point was his dissertation The School of Peter Abelard . He was critical of several of Abelard's theological writings. His 2013 edition of the letters Abelard and Heloises was recognized by Frank Rexroth as a "milestone in Abelard research". He took into account 16 surviving manuscripts of the correspondence, with two manuscripts from the 14th century being taken into account for the first time. The edition was awarded the British Academy Medal in 2014 . Until then, research on the corpus of texts had to rely on various editions from the 1950s. Luscombe published numerous individual studies on the reception of Dionysius in the Middle Ages. In 2011, together with David Hey and Lisa Liddy, he presented an edition of a copial book (Cartulary) from the Beauchief Premonstratensian Monastery in Sheffield.

He married in 1960. The marriage had three sons and one daughter.

Fonts

A list of publications appeared in: Edmund King , Joseph Canning, Martail Staub: Knowledge, Discipline and Power in the Middle Ages. Essays in Honor of David Luscombe (= studies and texts on the intellectual history of the Middle Ages. Vol. 106). Brill, Leiden 2011 ISBN 978-90-04-20434-8 , pp. 255 ff.

Monographs

  • The school of Peter Abelard. The influence of Abelard's thought in the early scholastic period (= Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. NS, 14). London: Cambridge University Press, London 1969, ISBN 0-521-07337-5 .
  • Medieval thought (= A history of Western philosophy. Vol. 2). Oxford University Press, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-19-289179-0 .

Editorships

  • with Jonathan Riley-Smith : The New Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. IV c. 1024 - c. 1198. Part I, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-41410-4 .
  • with Jonathan Riley-Smith: The New Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. IV c. 1024 - c. 1198. Part II, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-41411-1 .

Edition

  • Peter Abelard's Ethics. Aan edition with introduction. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, ISBN 0-19-822217-3 .
  • with David Hey, Lisa Liddy (Eds.): A Monastic Community in Local Society. The Beauchief Abbey Cartulary (= Camden Fifth Series. Vol. 40). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, ISBN 978-1-107-01646-0 .
  • The Letter Collection of Abelard and Heloise. Translated into English by Betty Radic. Clarendon Press, Oxford 2013, ISBN 0-19-822248-3 .

literature

  • Edmund King, Joseph Canning, Martail Staub: Knowledge, Discipline and Power in the Middle Ages. Essays in Honor of David Luscombe (= studies and texts on the intellectual history of the Middle Ages. Vol. 106). Brill, Leiden 2011 ISBN 978-90-04-20434-8 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ David Luscombe: David Knowles and his pupils. In: Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke, Roger Lovatt, David Edward Luscombe, Aelred Sillem (Eds.): David Knowles remembered. Cambridge 1991, pp. 123-139.
  2. ↑ See the review by Frank Rexroth in Historische Zeitschrift 302, 2016, pp. 486–488. Further reviews by Hannah Skoda in: The English Historical Review 130, 2015, pp. 960–961; Alexander Andrée in: The Journal of Medieval Latin 24, 2014, pp. 311–319; Jonathan M. Newman in: Women's History Review 23, 2014, pp. 816-817; Gerardo Larghi in: Vox Romanica 73, 2014, pp. 332–334 ( online ).
  3. ^ David Luscombe: The reception of the writings of Denis the pseudo-Areopagite into England. In: Daina E. Greenaway, Christopher John Holdsworth, Jane Eleanor Sayers (Eds.): Tradition and Change. Essays in honor of Marjorie Chibnall presented by her friends on the occasion of her seventieth birthday. Cambridge 1985, pp. 115-143.
  4. ↑ See the review by Julia Bruch in: sehepunkte 13 (2013), No. 2 [15. February 2013], ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Luscombe, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luscombe, David Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1938