Evelyn Jamison

Evelyn Mary Jamison (* 1877 ; † 1972 ) was a British Medievalist who primarily devoted herself to researching the history of the Normans in Sicily.

After studying at Lady Margaret Hall , she was a research fellow at Somerville College , Oxford from 1903 to 1906 , and in 1907 she became a librarian at Lady Margaret Hall, where she became vice principal in 1920. From 1928 to 1935 she taught as a history lecturer at the university.

For the first time, she published a number of important documents for her history of the Norman provincial administration under Roger II and Wilhelm I. The publication of previously unknown archive material is also a hallmark of her other essays on the history of the administration of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily. This is of particular concern as a number of the documents she published were lost during World War II. In addition, she examined the Anglo-Sicilian relations in the 12th century. The main work is the edition of the Catalogus baronum , a list of the fiefdoms and their performance obligations in continental parts of the Kingdom of Sicily, which was published in the year of her death. She could no longer complete the commentary volume; it was completed by Errico Cuozzo on the basis of her notes . The monograph on the ammiratus Eugenius of Palermo also grew out of her studies of Norman administration ; however, her attempt to identify with Hugo Falcandus met with general rejection.

Fonts

• The Norman Administration of Apulia and Capua, more especially under Roger II and William I, 1127-1166 , in: Papers of the British School at Rome 6 (1913) 211-481; Reprint of the Edition 1913, edited by Dione Clementi and Theo Kölzer , Aalen 1987
• Studies on the History of Medieval Sicily and South Italy , edited by Dione Clementi. Aalen 1992
• Admiral Eugenius of Sicily, His Life and Work and the Authorship of the Epistola ad Petrum and the Historia Hugonis Falcandi Siculi , London 1957
• Judex Tarentinus . In: Proceedings of the British Academy 53, 1968, pp. 289-344.
• Catalogus Baronum , Rome 1972 (Fonti per la storia d'Italia; 101)

literature

• Studies in Italian medieval history presented to Miss E (velyn) M. Jamison ; ed. by Philip Grierson and John Ward Perkins, London 1956 (Papers of the British School at Rome; NS 11 - 24)
• David Abulafia : Evelyn Jamison, champion of Southern Italy, champion of women's education . In: Jean-Marie Martin - Rosanna Alaggio (Ed.): "Quei maledetti Normanni." Studi offerti a Errico Cuozzo per i suoi settant'anni da Colleghi, Allievi, Amici , Ariano Irpino 2016, volume 1, pp. 1–12.

Web links

• Writings by Evelyn Jamison in the opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Writings by and about Evelyn Jamison in the Opac of the SB Berlin PK
• Writings by Evelyn Jamison in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale