Thomas Charles-Edwards
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Thomas Charles-Edwards is an academic at Oxford University. He currently holds the post of Jesus Professor of Celtic and is a Professorial Fellow at Jesus College. He read History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and studied for a doctorate there. He then was a Junior Research Fellow and then Fellow in History at Corpus Christi before being appointed to the chair of Celtic.
His expertise is in the fields of the history and language of Wales and Ireland, during the so-called 'Dark Ages', which followed the collapse of the Roman Empire in the west.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the British Academy.
He is a grandson of Thomas Charles Edwards, first Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
[edit] Publications
- After Rome: C.400-c.800 (Oxford, 2003) (Ed.).
- The Welsh King and His Court (2001) (Ed. with Morfydd Owen & Paul Russell).
- Early Christian Ireland (Cambridge, 2000).
- Early Irish and Welsh Kinship (Oxford, 1993).
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| Preceded by D Ellis Evans |
Jesus Professor of Celtic 1997- |
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