Evelyn Jamison

Evelyn Mary Jamison (1877 - 1972) was a British medievalist who devoted herself mainly to the study of the history of the Normans in Sicily.

Jamison was born in 1877, the eldest of three children of Arthur Andrew Jamison, a doctor, and his wife Isabella Green (whose mother, Mary Brandreth Green, was a friend of the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell).^[1] After graduating from the Modern History program of Lady Margaret Hall in 1901, she was made a research fellow at Somerville College in 1903;^[2] she was, in fact, the first beneficiary of the Lady Margaret Research Fellowship, established the previous year by Principal Agnes Maitland.^[3] Subsequently, she was a librarian and later vice-principal of Lady Margaret Hall. Among her students was the historian Marjorie Chibnall.^[4] She authored several works of history, which were notable for including previously unpublished archival material from the Norman Kingdom of Sicily. Her final work, the 'Catalogus Baronum', was completed after her death by Errico Cuozzo.

After Jamison's death, several of her friends dedicated in her memory a new stone effigy of Lady Margaret Beaufort, namesake of Lady Margaret Hall, installed in the college chapel to replace an earlier, and by then deteriorated, plaster one.^[5]

Works

• The Norman Administration of Apulia and Capua, more Especially under Roger II and William I, 1127-1166 ', in: Papers of the British School at Rome 6 (1913) 211- 481; Reprint of the Edition 1913, edited by Dione Clementi and Theo Kölzer, Aalen 1987
• Studies on the History of Medieval Sicily and South Italy, edited by Dione Clementi. Aalen 1992
• Admiral Eugenius of Sicily, His Life and Work and the Authorship of the Epistola ad Petrum and the Historia Hugonis Falcandi Siculi, London 1957
• Judex Tarentinus. Aalen 1992
• Catalogus Baronum, Rom 1972 (Fonti per la storia d'Italia ; 101)

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