British historian
David W. Rollason is anEnglishhistorian andmedievalist. He is a Professor in history atDurham University. He specialises in thecult of saints in Anglo-Saxon England, the history ofNorthumbria and in the historical writings of Durham, most notably producing a modern edition and translation of theLibellus de exordio and co-operating on an edition of theDurham Liber Vitae.
Outside of his academic interests, David Rollason is a keen cyclist, cycling 175 miles fromEdinburgh toSeaton Delaval to raise money to assist theNational Trust in their purchase ofSeaton Delaval Hall.[1]
Selected publications
[edit]- The Mildrith Legend: A Study in Early Medieval Hagiography in England (1982)
- ed. with G. Bonner and C. StancliffeSt Cuthbert, his Cult and his Community to AD 1200 (1989)
- Saints and Relics in Anglo-Saxon England (1989)
- with D. Gore & G. Fellows-Jensen,Sources for York History to AD 1100 (York, 1998)
- ed. & tr.Symeon of Durham. Libellus de exordio atque procursu istius, hoc est Dunhelmensis, ecclesie (Oxford, 2000)
- Bede and Germany (Jarrow Lecture, 2002)
- Northumbria 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)ISBN 0-521-04102-3.
- ed. with many others,The Durham Liber Vitae. British Library, MS Domitian A.VII, An Edition with Digital Facsimile, and Prosopographical and Linguistic Commentaries (British Library, 2007)
- Early Medieval Europe 300–1050: A Guide for Studying and Teaching, 2nd edn (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018)
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