Frank Barlow (historian)
Frank Barlow CBE FBA FRSL (19 April 1911 – 27 June 2009)[1] was an English historian, known particularly for biographies of medieval figures.
Contents
1 Academic life
2 Works
3 References
4 External links
Academic life
Barlow studied at St John's College, Oxford. He was Professor of History at the University of Exeter from 1953 until he retired in 1976 and became Emeritus Professor.[2] He was a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature,[3] and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours "for services to the study of English medieval history".[4]
Works
The Feudal Kingdom of England (1955)
The Life of King Edward Who Rests at Westminster (1962, 2nd edition 1992), editor and translator
Edward the Confessor (1970, 2nd edition 1997)
The English Church 1066–1154 (1979)
The Norman Conquest and Beyond (1983)
William Rufus (Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1983)
Thomas Becket (1986)
The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy Bishop of Amiens (1999), editor and translator
The Godwins: The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty (2002)
Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250: Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow (2006), edited by David Bates, Julia Crick and Sarah Hamilton
References
^ "Frank Barlow (1911–2009)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/101439..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
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^ The University of Exeter - Calendar 2007/2008 - Emeritus Professors Archived 2 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
^ RSL Fellows Archived 7 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
^ "No. 51772". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 1989. p. 7.
External links
Works by or about Frank Barlow in libraries (WorldCat catalog)- Who's who: Frank Barlow
- Obituary, The Guardian, printed 24 July 2009
- Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, printed 17 August 2009
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