Julia Barrow

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Julia Steuart Barrow (* 1956 ) is a British medieval historian . Her research focus is primarily on medieval church history from the 8th to 13th centuries, with a focus on England , clerical administration and the clergy itself, as well as medieval documents (charters) .

Life

Studies and academic teaching

Barrow studied Medieval History at the University of St Andrews , where he received a Master of Arts degree in 1978 . She then continued her studies at Corpus Christi College of the University of Oxford , where she in 1983 D.Phil. PhD . The title of her dissertation was The Bishops of Hereford and their acta 1163-1219 .

From 1986 to 1989 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Birmingham on a British Academy scholarship . From 1989 to 1990 she worked for a year for the Victoria County History of Cheshire project . In 1990 she became a lecturer at the University of Nottingham and taught there until 2012. In the course of her teaching there, she became a senior lecturer and then a reader . In 2010 she held Who served the altar at Brixworth? Clergy in English minsters c.800-c.1100 this year's lecture of the Brixworth Lectures series organized annually by the Friends of All Saints Church Brixworth in collaboration with the Medieval Research Center of the University of Leicester . In 2012 she moved to the University of Leeds , where she has been teaching as Professor of Medieval Studies ever since .

On October 23, 1997, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London . In July 2016 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy . Barrow is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society .

research

Barrow's research focuses primarily on medieval church history in the period from approx. 700 to approx. 1300. Here, she considers the document system and administration of the church in England from approx. 1000 to approx. 1300, as well as the career structure of the Western European clergy between approx 800 to approx. 1250. In the course of her academic career, she also began to deal with the concept of “reform” and investigated to what extent this could be applied to the church of the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries.

Fonts

  • Hereford 1079-1234 (1993, English Episcopal Acta VII, Oxford)
  • with Nicholas Brooks (Ed.): St Wulfstan and his World (2005, Aldershot)
  • with Andrew Wareham (Ed.): Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honor of Nicholas Brooks (2008, Aldershot)
  • Hereford 1234-1275 (2009, English Episcopal Acta 35, Oxford)
  • Who served the Altar at Brixworth? Clergy in English Minsters c.800-c.1100 (2013, Leicester)
  • The Clergy in the Medieval World: Secular Clerics, Their Families and Careers in North-Western Europe, c.800-c.1200 (2015, Cambridge)

Web links

  • Entry on the University of Leeds website

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on the website of the Institute for Medieval Studies
  2. ^ Entry on the website of the Royal Historical Society
  3. ↑ The Bishops of Hereford and their acta 1163-1219 , E-Thesis Online Service . British Library website
  4. ^ A b New Chair in Medieval Studies , website of the School of History at the University of Leeds
  5. ^ The Brixworth Lectures , website of the Medieval Research Center of the University of Leicester
  6. ^ Entry in the directory of the Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
  7. ^ Professor Julia Barrow elected as British Academy Fellow , July 15, 2016, website of the University of Leeds School of History
  8. ^ Fellows - B ( Memento September 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Royal Historical Society.
personal data
SURNAME Barrow, Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barrow, Julia Steuart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British medieval historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1956