Thomas Charles-Edwards
Thomas Mowbray Charles-Edwards FRHistS FLSW FBA (born 11 November 1943)[1] is an academic at Oxford University.[2] He holds the post of Jesus Professor of Celtic[3] and is a Professorial Fellow at Jesus College.[2]
He was educated at Ampleforth College before reading History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he studied for a doctorate after taking the Diploma in Celtic Studies under Sir Idris Foster.[2] He held a Bergin Fellowship at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies from 1968 to 1969. He then was a Junior Research Fellow and then a Fellow in History at Corpus Christi College before being appointed to the chair of Celtic.[2]
His expertise is in the fields of the history and language of Wales and Ireland, during the so-called Irish Dark Age (during the Roman Empire) and the General "Dark Ages", which followed the collapse of the Roman Empire in the west.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society,[4] a Fellow of the British Academy[1] and is a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He was elected honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2007.[5]
He is a grandson of Thomas Charles Edwards, first Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
References
Publications
- 1971. 'The Date of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi', Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1970 Part 2, 263-298.
- 1978. 'Honour and Status in some Irish and Welsh Prose Tales', Ériu 29, 123-141.
- 1978. 'The Authenticity of the Gododdin: An Historian's View', R. Bromwich, R. Brinley Jones (eds.), Astudiaethau ar yr Hengerdd: Studies in Old Welsh Poetry, cyflwynedig i Syr Idris Foster (Cardiff), 44-71.
- 1983. With Fergus Kelly. Bechbretha (Dublin).
- 1986. Ed. with Morfydd Owen & D B Walters. Lawyers and Laymen (Cardiff).
- 1989. The Welsh Laws (Cardiff).
- 1991. 'The Arthur of History', R. Bromwich, A. O. H. Jarman, B. F. Roberts (eds.), The Arthur of the Welsh (Cardiff), 15-32.
- 1993. Early Irish and Welsh Kinship (Oxford).
- 2000. Ed. with Morfydd Owen & Paul Russell. The Welsh King and His Court (Cardiff).
- 2000. Early Christian Ireland (Cambridge).
- 2003. Ed. After Rome: c.400-c.800 (Oxford).
- 2005. Ed. with Paul Russell. Tair Colofn Cyfraith. The Three Columns of Law in Medieval Wales: Homicide, Theft and Fire (Bangor).
External links
| Persondata |
| Name |
Charles-Edwards, Thomas |
| Alternative names |
|
| Short description |
|
| Date of birth |
11 November 1943 |
| Place of birth |
|
| Date of death |
|
| Place of death |
|