Professor David L. d'Avray FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2005
- Subjects
- Medieval studies
- Sections
- Medieval Studies
Summary
Lecturer, Reader and Professor in University College London's History Department. Early work was on medieval preaching as mass communication, and as evidence for attitudes to monarchy, death, and marriage; the practical influence of symbolism on the social and legal history of medieval marriage was the next theme; after that, different kinds of rationality in history, both comparatively and with reference to the Middle Ages; the most recent published research has been on the royal marriages and papal law. Current research aims to apply sociological concepts to understanding papal Christianity between Antiquity and the Enlightenment.
Current post
Jesus College, Oxford Oxford Supernumerary Fellow and Dean of Degrees
University College London Emeritus Professor of History
Past appointments
University College London Professor of History
University College London Lecturer, Reader, Professor
Publications
Debating Papal History, c. 250–c. 1300: Responsive Government and the Medieval Papacy
David L. d'Avray - Published in 2025 by Cambridge University Press
The Power of Protocol: Diplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government
David L. d'Avray - Published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press
Papal Jurisprudence, 385–1234 Social Origins and Medieval Reception of Canon Law
David L. d'Avray - Published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press
Papal Jurisprudence c. 400: Sources of the Canon Law Tradition
David L. d'Avray - Published in 2019 by Cambridge University Press
Papacy, Monarchy and Marriage 860–1600
David L. d'Avray - Published in 2015 by Cambridge University Press
Dissolving Royal Marriages: A Documentary History, 860–1600
David L. d'Avray - Published in 2014 by Cambridge University Press
Medieval Religious Rationalities: A Weberian Analysis
David L. d'Avray - Published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press
Rationalities in History: A Weberian Essay in Comparison
David L. d'Avray - Published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press
Medieval Marriage: Symbolism and Society
David L. d'Avray - Published in 2005 by Cambridge University Press
Medieval Marriage Sermons: Mass Communication in a Culture without Print
Edited by David L. d'Avray - Published in 2001 by Oxford University Press
Death and the Prince: Memorial Preaching Before 1350
David L. d'Avray - Published in 1994 by Oxford University Press
The Preaching of the Friars: Sermons diffused from Paris before 1300
David L. d'Avray - Published in 1985 by Oxford University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor John Hudson FBA
Medieval legal history; medieval historical writing; nineteenth-century scholarship on legal history, especially the work of F W Maitland
Professor Anna Sapir Abulafia FBA
Interactions between Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages within the broad context of 12th and 13th-century theological and ecclesiastical developments; the place of Jews and Muslims in canon law
Professor Bruce Campbell FBA
The economic history of late-medieval Britain and Ireland, with particular reference to human-environment interactions during the 14th century and trends in agricultural output and productivity from the 13th to 19th centuries
