Geoffrey Wallis Steuart Barrow

Geoffrey Wallis Steuart Barrow (mostly abbreviated GWS Barrow ; born November 28, 1924 in Headingley ; † December 16, 2013 ) was a British historian .

Geoffrey Barrow attended St Edward's School from 1937 to 1939 and the Inverness Royal Academy from 1939 to 1941. He then studied at the University of St Andrews and Pembroke College . He wrote his B. Litt at Pembroke College. Dissertation on Scottish royal ecclesiastical policy, 1107-1224 . In 1950 he became a lecturer at University College London . From 1961 to 1974 he taught as a professor of medieval history at Newcastle University . In 1974 he became the first professor of Scottish history at the University of St Andrews. In 1979 he succeeded Gordon Donaldson and took over the Sir William Fraser Professorship for Scottish History and Paleography at the University of Edinburgh . There he taught as a professor until his retirement in 1992.

Barrow received numerous honors. The University of St Andrews awarded him the D. Litt in 1971. In 1976 he became a member of the British Academy . From the University of Glasgow Barrow received the title of D. Litt in 1988. honorary. He became president of the Scottish History Society . His research focus was the entire medieval history of Scotland, especially from the 11th to the 14th centuries.

Barrow was married and had two children.

Fonts

• Kingship and unity. Scotland, 1000-1306. London 1981, ISBN 0-7131-6307-0 .
• The Anglo-Norman era in Scottish history. Oxford 1980, ISBN 0-19-822473-7 .
• The kingdom of the Scots. Government, church and society from the eleventh to the fourteenth century. London 1973.
• Robert Bruce and the community of the realm of Scotland. Berkeley 1965.
• Feudal Britain. The completion of the medieval kingdoms, 1066-1314. London 1956.

literature

• Hector MacQueen: Geoffrey Wallis Steuart Barrow, 1924–2013: a memoir. In: The Innes Review 65 (2014), pp. 1-12.

Web links

• Dauvit Broun : Barrow, Geoffrey Wallis Steuart. In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , January 1, 2017.
• Page from Barrow at the University of Edinburgh