Professor Wendy Davies FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1992
- Subjects
- Archaeology, Medieval studies
- Sections
- Archaeology , Medieval Studies
Summary
Until her retirement from UCL in 2007, Wendy Davies taught medieval European history and was also successively Head of the History Department, Deans of Arts and of Social and Historical Sciences, and Pro-Provost (Europe). In research she has always tried to work across disciplines and to collaborate with other scholars: she has convened the - still active - 'Bucknell' charter group since 1979 (hence, The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval Europe (1986), Property and Power in Early Medieval Europe (1995), Languages of Gift (2010), all edited with Paul Fouracre) and has run interdisciplinary projects which explore the interaction between text and field evidence (hence, with James Graham-Campbell and others, The Inscriptions of Early Medieval Brittany (2000) and the long series of archaeological publications with Grenville Astill). Her earlier work dealt with Wales and Brittany, but in the last twenty years northern Iberia in the early middle ages has been the focus.
Current post
Professor of History Emerita, University College London; Additional member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Past appointments
University College London Professor Emerita of History, University College London
2008 -
University of Oxford Additional member of the Faculty of History
2008 -
University College London Pro-Provost
1995 -
University College London Professor of History and Pro-Provost, University College London
1985 - 2008
University College London Lecturer, Reader, Professor of History
1977 -
University of Birmingham Lecturer
1970 - 1976
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor John Gillingham FBA
Medieval history: narrative sources, primarily in north-western Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries, as evidence for the perceptions and values that shaped war and politics.
Professor Daniel Wakelin FBA
Medieval English literature and its circulation and reception in manuscripts and other material texts
