Aubrey Gwynn

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Aubrey Gwynn (1892-1983) was an Irish Jesuit historian.

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[edit] Life

He came from a Protestant academic family, and was son of Stephen Lucius Gwynn, but converted to Roman Catholicism at age 12[1].

He wrote on Irish and church history, but also on topics including the West Indies. He held the Chair of Medieval History at University College Dublin from 1949 to 1963.

[edit] Works

  • Roman Education from Cicero to Quintilian (1926)
  • The English Austin Friars in the Time of Wyclif (1940)
  • The Medieval Province of Armagh, 1470-1545 (1946)
  • The Writings of Bishop Patrick 1074-1084 (1955)
  • Medieval Religious Houses: Ireland (1970) with R. N. Hadcock
  • The Irish Church in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, edited by Gerard O'Brien
  • Twelfth Century Reform (A History of Irish Catholicism II) (1968)
  • Anglo-Irish Church Life: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (A History of Irish Catholicism) 1968
  • Aubrey Gwynn, Cathal Óg mac Maghnusa and the Annals of Ulster (1998 reprint), edited by Nollaig Ó Muraíle

[edit] Reference

  • J. A. Watt, J. B. Morrall, F. X. Martin (1961), Medieval Studies Presented to Aubrey Gwynn S. J.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Hugh Kearney, Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History (2007), p. 15.

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