Edmund King

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Edmund King (* 1942 ) is a British historian .

Edmund King attended St Benedict's School in Ealing from 1949 to 1959 . He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Cambridge . There he received his doctorate in 1968 from Michael M. Postan (1899-1981) with a study on Peterborough Abbey . Since 1966 he worked in the department at the University of Sheffield, initially as an assistant lecturer. There he taught from 1989 until his retirement as professor of medieval history. He has also taught at the Universities of Connecticut and Michigan in the United States. He is a member of the Royal Historical Society in London.

King worked for the Northamptonshire Record Society , one of the premier local historical societies involved in the maintenance and publication of Northamptonshire historical records . He is working on an edition of the letters and diaries of Joan Wake , the founder of the society in 1920. The edition is to appear in 2020 for the anniversary. His study of Peterborough Abbey was awarded the Ellen McArthur Prize in 1969. The 1998 account of medieval England from the Norman Conquest to the Wars of the Roses was translated into Japanese in 2006. He presented an edition of the Historia novella by William of Malmesbury . One focus of his work is the 12th century, especially the reign of King Stephen of England . He published his first work on this in 1974. He wrote the entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . In 1994 he published an anthology. After decades of research, King published his biography, a standard work on this English king in 2010. In 2018 he published a brief biography about Heinrich I.

Fonts

A list of publications from 1969 to 2014 appeared in: Paul Dalton: Rulership and rebellion in the Anglo-Norman world, c.1066 - c.1216. Essays in honor of professor Edmund King. Ashgate, Farnham 2015, ISBN 978-1-4724-1373-4 , pp. 253-262.

Monographs

Editorships

  • with 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 .
  • The Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1994, ISBN 0-19-820364-0 .

Edition

  • Historia novella. Translated by KR Potter. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-820192-3 .

literature

  • Paul Dalton: Rulership and rebellion in the Anglo-Norman world, c.1066 - c.1216. Essays in honor of professor Edmund King. Ashgate, Farnham 2015, ISBN 978-1-4724-1373-4 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Sandra Raban: Edmund King to Appreciation. In: Paul Dalton: Rulership and rebellion in the Anglo-Norman world, c.1066 - c.1216. Essays in honor of professor Edmund King. Farnham 2015, pp. 11–19, here: p. 12.
  2. ↑ See the review by Paul Dalton in: The English Historical Review 115, 2000, p. 185.
  3. ^ Edmund King: King Stephen and the Anglo-Norman Aristocracy. In: History. 59, 1974, pp. 180-194.
  4. ↑ Edmund King: Stephen (c. 1092-1154). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Volume 6: Blackmore – Bowyer. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861356-3 , pp. 238–242, ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  5. ↑ See the review by Karl Schnith in: German Archives for Research into the Middle Ages. 54, 1998, p. 401 ( online ).
  6. ↑ See the reviews of John Gillingham in Speculum . 88, 2013, pp. 533-535; David Bates in: The English Historical Review. 127, 2012, pp. 682-685; Andrew Abram in: The Catholic Historical Review. 98, 2012, pp. 97-98 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME King, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1942