Frank Merry Stenton

Sir Frank Merry Stenton (born May 17, 1880 in Manchester , † September 17, 1967 in Reading ) was a British medieval historian .

Stenton studied from 1899 to 1902 at Oxford University ( Keble College ) and worked under J. Horace Round on the edition of the Domesday Book . In 1905 he became a professor at Llandovery College and from 1908 he was a research fellow at University College in Reading (later the University of Reading ). In 1912 he became professor of modern history there. Despite appointments at other universities, he stayed there and became Vice Chancellor in 1946. In 1950 he retired. In 1929 he gave the Ford Lectures in Oxford.

Stenton was considered an authority on Anglo-Saxon England and wrote about it in 1943 with the volume of the Oxford History of England, a standard work that is still in use today. He also did research on English place names and coins.

In 1926 he became a member of the British Academy . In 1947 he became an Honorary Fellow of his Oxford College (Keble College) and in 1948 he was knighted (Knight Bachelor). From 1937 to 1945 he was President of the Royal Historical Society .

His wife Doris Mary Stenton ( 1894-1971 ) was also a historian, she wrote the volume Early Middle Ages in the Pelican History of England . They had been married since 1919.

He is buried in Halloughton .

Fonts

• The First Century of English Feudalism, 1066–1166, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1932, 2nd edition 1961
• Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford History of England, 1943, Oxford University Press 2001
• William the Conqueror and the rule of the Normans, Putnam 1908, Barnes and Noble 1967
• Types of manorial structure in the northern Danelaw, 1910, New York 1974
• The free peasantry of the northern Danelaw, Lund 1926
• Editor: The Bayeux tapestry; a comprehensive survey, Phaidon Publishers, 1957
• Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1970 (editor Doris Mary Stenton)

literature

• James Clarke Holt Stenton, Sir Frank Merry (1880–1967) , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004
• Doris Mary Stenton Sir Frank Merry Stenton 1880-1967 , in Michael Lapidge (Ed.) Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain , Oxford University Press, 2002

Web links

• Stenton Papers in Reading
• Publications by Frank Merry Stenton in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii
• Literature by and about Frank Merry Stenton in the catalog of the German National Library