Jean Dunbabin
British academic
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Jean Hymers Dunbabin (born 1939) is an honorary fellow of St Anne's College, University of Oxford.[3] Dunbabin specialises in medieval political communities in France c. 1000-c.1350, and in southern Italy and Sicily 1250–1310, and medieval political thought. She is a fellow of the British Academy - since 2024, Emeritus Fellow.[4]
Born1939 (age 86–87)
OccupationsHistorian and academic
SpouseJohn Dunbabin (1962)
ChildrenBridget (b. 1965), Penny (b. 1967)
Jean Dunbabin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1939 (age 86–87) |
| Occupations | Historian and academic |
| Spouse | John Dunbabin (1962) |
| Children | Bridget (b. 1965), Penny (b. 1967) |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Ethical problems as discussed by masters of arts and theologians in the thirteenth century universities (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel Callus |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Doctoral students | Matthew Kempshall Jörg Peltzer[1] Joseph Ziegler[2] |
Dunbabin has contributed to The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy, The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350–c.1450, and The New Cambridge Medieval History.[5] She edited The English Historical Review from 1999 to 2004.[6]
Personal life
Dunbabin is married to John Dunbabin (1962) and has two daughters, Bridget (b. 1965) and Penny (1967)
Selected publications
- France in the Making, 843-1180, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985. (2nd ed. 2000)[7]
- "Government", in Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought, c. 350 - c.1450, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988, pp. 477 – 519.
- A Hound of God. Pierre de la Palud and the Fourteenth-Century Church, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991. ISBN 0198222912
- Charles I of Anjou: Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe, 1998. (Medieval World Series)[8]
- Captivity and Imprisonment in Medieval Europe, 1000 - 1300, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, 2002. ISBN 0333647157[9]
- "The household and entourage of Charles I of Anjou, king of the Regno, 1266-85", Historical Research, 77 (197), 2004, pp. 313–336.
- The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266-1305, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011. ISBN 978-0521198783[10]
