Peter Sawyer (historian)
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Peter Hayes Sawyer (25 June 1928 – 7 July 2018
Sawyer is particularly known for his annotated catalogue of Anglo-Saxon charters. Anglo-Saxon charters are referenced by "Sawyer" numbers (abbreviated 'S' as for example in charter "S 407") according to his catalogue.[5]
Biography
Sawyer was born in Oxford, England, on 25 June 1928, the son of Grace Woodbridge and Bill Sawyer, a tobacconist.[3] He grew up in Oxford, except for time spent with relatives in Milford Haven during WWII.[3]
Sawyer studied at
visiting professor in the United States: at the University of Minnesota from 1966 to 1967 and then again in 1984, and at the University of California, Berkeley in 1985.[6][3] Between 1996 and 2006 he worked in Trondheim (where his wife Birgit was a professor of Medieval History), connected to NTNU, and from 2006 he lived and worked in Uppsala.[6]
He died in Uppsala, aged 90, in July 2018.[1]
Works
- Sawyer, Peter (1957–62). Textus roffensis : Rochester cathedral library manuscript A.3.5. Early English manuscripts in facsimile. Vol. 7, 11. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde og Bagger. 118+117 pages. OCLC 63444797.
- Sawyer, Peter H (1962). The age of the vikings (1978 2nd ed.). London: E. Arnold. 275 pages. OCLC 463278812.
- Sawyer, Peter H (1968). Anglo-saxon charters : an annotated list and bibliography. Guides and handbooks. Vol. 8. OCLC 460956.
- Sawyer, Peter H (1978). From Roman Britain to Norman England (1998 2nd ed.). OCLC 52489970.
- Sawyer, Peter H (1979). Charters of Burton Abbey. OCLC 6041283.
- Sawyer, Peter (1985). Kungar och vikingar : Norden och Europa 700–1100 [Kings and Vikings : the Nordic countries and Europe 700–1100]. Panorama (in Swedish). Translated by Erik Frykman. Stockholm: OCLC 185803536.
- Sawyer, Peter H (1989). The making of Sweden. Alingsås: Viktoria Bokförlag. iii–60 pages. OCLC 21221268.
- Sawyer, Peter; Sawyer, Birgit (1993). Medieval Scandinavia: from conversion to Reformation, circa 800–1500. The Nordic Series. Vol. 17. OCLC 489584487.
- Sawyer, Peter H (1997). The Oxford illustrated history of the Vikings. OCLC 751158622.
Peter Sawyer The Oxford illustrated history of the Vikings.
- Sawyer, Peter (1998). Anglo-Saxon Lincolnshire. Lincoln: History of Lincolnshire Committee for the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. xv–289 pages. OCLC 906849208.
- Sawyer, Peter (2013). The wealth of Anglo-Saxon England. OCLC 847547281.
References
- ^ a b "Emeritus Professor dies at the age of 90". University of Leeds. 9 July 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ^ "Emeritus Professor Peter Sawyer". University of Leeds. 12 July 2018. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g Wood, Ian (26 July 2018). "Peter Sawyer obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
- S2CID 191721278.
- ^ "Electronic Sawyer: The Electronic Sawyer". ESawyer.
- ^ a b c d "Peter Hayes Sawyer: Curriculum Vitae". Archived from the original on 12 August 2010. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ^ Sawyer, Peter (2009). "The Origins of the International Medieval Bibliography: Its Unwritten History (as told by its Founder)". Bulletin of International Medieval Research. 14 for 2008: 57–61.
- ^ Murray, Alan V. (2001). "Thirty-Five Years of the International Medieval Bibliography (1967-2002)". Bulletin of International Medieval Research. 7: 1–9.
- ^ University of Leeds, List of Emeritus Professors Archived 2012-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Ian N. Wood, 'Peter Hayes Sawyer (25 June 1928 – 7 July 2018)', Leeds Medieval Studies, 1 (2021), 101–4,
- Peter Hayes Sawyer: Curriculum Vitae
- Charters by Sawyer number
- Svearikets vagga – The cradle of Sweden – a Swedish program where Sawyer appears
- Leeds University promotional video, c. 1983 featuring Sawyer at 10.11.
- The Electronic Sawyer