Richard Abels
Richard Philip Abels (* 1951 ) is an American medieval and military historian .
Abels received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1982 with JMW Bean (Lordship and Military Obligation in Anglo-Saxon England) and was an instructor there from 1981. He became Assistant Professor in 1982, Associate Professor in 1986 and Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy in 1991 , where he headed the Faculty of History from 2008 to 2014.
Abels specializes in Anglo-Saxon history of England and early medieval military history. He wrote a biography of Alfred the Great . He also dealt with medieval heresies. He is writing a book on the cultural influences on the practice and representation of warfare with European Middle Ages.
In 1990 he became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society . In 2007/08 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study . He has received various high civil merit medals from the US Navy.
From 1998 to 2001 he was President of the Charles Homer Haskins Society for Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Angevin Studies, and from 2001 to 2005 he was co-editor of the Haskins Society Journal: Studies in Medieval History.
Fonts
- Alfred the Great: Was. Culture, and Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England, London: Longman 1998
- Lordship and Military Obligation in Anglo-Saxon England, Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California, 1988.
- Editor with Bernard Bachrach : The Normans and their Adversaries: Essays in Memory of C. Warren Hollister, Boydell 2001
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Abels, Ellen Harrison: The Participation of Women in Languedocian Catharism, Mediaeval Studies, Volume 41, 1979, pp. 215-251
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| SURNAME | Abels, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abels, Richard Philip |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medieval historian and military historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |