David Dumville

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David Norman Dumville (born 5 May 1949) is a British

PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1976, presenting the thesis "The textual history of the Welsh-Latin Historia Brittonum".[1] He is professor emeritus of Celtic & Anglo-Saxon at the University of Aberdeen. He has previously taught or held posts at Swansea University (Fellow, 1975–1977), the University of Pennsylvania (assistant professor of English, 1977–1978), and the University of Cambridge, (lecturer in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, 1977–1991; reader in early Mediaeval history and culture of British Isles, 1991–1995; professor of palaeography and cultural history, 1995–2005). Among other academic appointments, he was visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (1995).[2][3]

Publications

Dumville has produced numerous scholarly articles and books. In 2007, he established a

Anglo-Saxon studies, entitled Anglo-Saxon, which ceased after one issue. He was a founding member of the Medieval Chronicle Society
.

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