Henry Mayr-Harting

Henry Maria Robert Egmont Mayr-Harting

Mayr-Harting was born on 6 April 1936 in Prague. He is the son of Herbert Mayr-Harting, a lawyer who was the Czechoslovak representative at the United Nations War Crimes Commission,^[1] and of Anna Mayr-Harting, née Münzer, who had a distinguished career as a bacteriologist in Bristol, England. His brother, Thomas Mayr-Harting, is an Austrian and EU diplomat.

He was educated at

He was elected Visiting Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1983 and Brown Foundation Fellow at Sewanee: The University of the South in 1992. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in the same year and he is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was the president of the Ecclesiastical History Society (2001–02).^[3] In 2003 he took part in the Spring Lecture Series, Barbarian Europe: The Creation of a Civilization, at the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of New Mexico. Hon. D.Litt., University of East Anglia, 2009.

Personal life

In 1968 Mayr-Harting married Caroline Mary Humphries. Together they have a son, Felix (born 1969), and a daughter, Ursula (born 1972). Mayr-Harting's daughter, now called Ursula Weekes, is an art historian and has written several books, including Techniques of Drawing (exh. cat., Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1996), Early Netherlandish Engraving circa 1440–1540 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1997), Techniques of Drawing: from the 15th to the 19th Centuries (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1999), and Early Engravers and their Public: the Master of the Berlin Passion and Manuscripts from Convents in the Rhine-Maas Region (London: Harvey Miller, 2004).

Selected publications

• Henry Mayr-Harting, The Bishops of Chichester and the Administration of Their Diocese, 1075–1207: with a Collection of Acta (University of Oxford DPhil thesis, 1961)
• Widukind of Corvey, Res gestae Saxonicae, tr. Henry Mayr-Harting (typescript 1962, privately bound 1995)
• Henry Mayr-Harting, The Bishops of Chichester, 1075–1207: Biographical Notes and Problems (Chichester: Chichester City Council, 1963)
• Henry Mayr-Harting, ed. and introduction, Diocesis Cicestrensis: The Acta of the Bishops of Chichester, 1075–1207 (Canterbury and York Society, vol. 56, Torquay: Devonshire Press, 1964)
• Henry Mayr-Harting, The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England (London:
  ISBN 978-0-271-00769-4
• Henry Mayr-Harting, 'Functions of a Twelfth-Century Recluse', History 60 (1975), 337–52
• Henry Mayr-Harting, The Venerable Bede, the Rule of St Benedict, and Social Class (Jarrow Lecture 1976,
  ISBN 0-903495-03-1
• Henry Mayr-Harting and R. I. Moore, eds, Studies in Medieval History Presented to R. H. C. Davis (London: Hambledon Press, 1985)
• Henry Mayr-Harting, Saint Wilfrid (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1986)
• Henry Mayr-Harting, ed., St Hugh of Lincoln: Lectures Delivered at Oxford and Lincoln to Celebrate the Eighth Centenary of St Hugh's Consecration as Bishop of Lincoln (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987)
• Henry Mayr-Harting, 'The Foundation of Peterhouse, Cambridge (1284) and the Rule of Saint Benedict',
  English Historical Review
  103 (1988), 318
• Henry Mayr-Harting, Ottonian Book Illumination: an Historical Study (2 vols, London: Harvey Miller, 1991; 2nd edn, London: Harvey Miller, 1999)
  ISBN 978-1-872501-79-6
• Henry Mayr-Harting, Two conversions to Christianity: the Bulgarians and the Anglo-Saxons (Stenton Lecture 1993, Reading: University of Reading, 1994)
• Henry Mayr-Harting, 'Charlemagne, the Saxons, and the Imperial Coronation of 800', English Historical Review 111:444 (November 1996), 1113–33
• Henry Mayr-Harting, Perceptions of Angels in History: an Inaugural Lecture Delivered in the University of Oxford on 14 November 1997 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)
• Henry Mayr-Harting, 'Liudprand of Cremona's Account of his Legation to Constantinople (968) and Ottonian Imperial Strategy', English Historical Review 116 (2001) 539
• Richard Harries and Henry Mayr-Harting, eds, Christianity: Two Thousand Years (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
• Henry Mayr-Harting, 'The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany', Catholic Historical Review 88:4 (October 2002), 759–61
• Henry Mayr-Harting, Melbourne Church in its Earliest Historical Surroundings: the Friends First Public Lecture (Melbourne: Friends of Melbourne Parish Church, 2004)
• Henry Mayr-Harting, Church and Cosmos in Early Ottonian Germany: The View from Cologne (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
  ISBN 978-0-19-921071-8
• Henry Mayr-Harting, Religion, Politics and Society in Britain 1066–1272 (London: Longman, 2011)

Sources and further reading

• Henry Mayr-Harting, 'The Relevance of Medieval History', History Faculty Alumni Newsletter 2 (June 2004)
• Henry Mayr-Harting, 'Much more than "ornament"', Cherwell (16 May 2003)
• Faculty of Modern History
• Austrian Academy of Sciences
• University of New Mexico
• Lawrence University
• Oxford University Gazette (6 March 1997)