Simon Taylor (writer)

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Simon Taylor (born March 11, 1950 in Fife , Scotland ) is a Scottish writer, place name researcher , editor of historical chronicles and tourist guide . He lives in Edinburgh .

Taylor studied Romance Studies and German Studies. He is co-editor of the Scotichronicon by Walter Bower , the greatest Scottish chronicle of the Middle Ages, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle . With his historical novel Der Mönch , which was first published in German in 1994, he achieved a bestseller.

Works

Fiction

Technical and non-fiction literature

  • with Gilbert Márkus: The place-names of Fife.
    • vol. 1. West Fife between Leven and Forth. Shaun Tyas, Donington 2007, ISBN 9781900289771 .
    • vol. 2. Central Fife between the rivers Leven and Eden. Shaun Tyas, Donington 2009, ISBN 9781900289931 .
  • The Rock of the Irishmen: an early place-name tale from Fife and Kinross. In: Beverley Ballin Smith, Simon Taylor, Gareth Williams (Eds.): West over sea. Studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300. a Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Barbara E. Crawford. Brill, Leiden / Boston 2007, ISBN 9789004158931 .
  • (Ed.): Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland, 500–1297: essays in honor of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2000, ISBN 1-85182-516-9 .
  • The uses of place names. Scottish Cultural Press, Edinburgh 1998, ISBN 1898218986 .
  • Walter Bower : The Scotichronicon. Vol. 5, Books IX and X, edited by Simon Taylor and DER Watt with Brian Scott. Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen 1990, ISBN 0080379850 .
  • (Ed.): The Anglo-Saxon chronicle. Vol. 4: MS B. Brewer, Cambridge 1983, ISBN 0859911047 .

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personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, Robert Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Fife , Scotland