Rees Davies
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Sir Rees Davies | |
|---|---|
| Born | Robert Rees Davies 6 August 1938 Merionethshire, Wales |
| Died | 16 May 2005 (aged 66) Oxford, England |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | The Lancaster and Bohun lordships in Wales in the 14th and early 15th centuries (1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | K. B. McFarlane |
Sir Robert Rees Davies, FRHistS (6 August 1938 – 16 May 2005) was a Welsh historian.
Biography
Davies was born in
Bala Grammar School. He was bilingual in Welsh and English.[1] He received a First in his degree from University College London in 1959, later returning there as a lecturer in 1963. In 1959 he undertook a two-year postgraduate study of the Duchy of Lancaster's Welsh lordships in the later Middle Ages at Merton College, Oxford under the supervision of K. B. McFarlane.[1][2]
In 1966, he married Carys Lloyd Wynne, with whom he had one son and one daughter.[1]
In 1975, he was appointed Professor of History,
University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. His 1987 book Conquest, Coexistence and Change: Wales 1063–1415 won him the Wolfson Literary Award for History. In 1992 he became President of the Royal Historical Society
.
In 1995, he was appointed the
Ancient Monuments Board for Wales. Davies was appointed a Knight Bachelor for services to history in the Queen's 2005 New Year Honours
.
He is best known for his reinvigoration of Welsh medieval scholarship and as a pioneer in the study of British history, rejecting earlier Anglo-centric treatments of the medieval histories of Britain and Ireland.[3]
Professor Sir Rees Davies died of cancer in Oxford, aged 66.[1]
Works
- 1978 Lordship and Society in the March of Wales, 1282–1400 (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
- 1984 Welsh Society and Nationhood: Historical Essays Presented to ISBN 0708308600)
- 1987 Conquest, Coexistence, and Change: Wales, 1063–1415, part of the Oxford History of Wales (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
- 1987 Wales: the Age Of Conquest, 1063–1415
- 1988 The British Isles, 1100–1500: Comparisons, Contrasts, and Connections (Edinburgh: J. Donald Publishers)
- 1990 Domination and Conquest: the Experience of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1100–1300 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press)
- 1995 The Revolt of ISBN 0198205082)
- 2000 The Age of Conquest: Wales, 1063–1415 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press)
- 2000 The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles: 1093–1343 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press)
- 2002 Owain Glyn Dwr: trwy ras Duw, Tywysog Cymru (Talybont, Ceredigion: Y Lolfa, in Welsh) ISBN 9780862436254
- English translation by Gerald Morgan: Owain Glyndwr: Prince of Wales (Talybont, Ceredigion: Y Lolfa, 2009) ISBN 9781847711274
- English translation by Gerald Morgan: Owain Glyndwr: Prince of Wales (Talybont, Ceredigion: Y Lolfa, 2009)
- 2004 From Medieval to Modern Wales: Historical Essays in Honour of Kenneth O. Morgan and Ralph A. Griffiths, edited with Geraint H. Jenkins, (Cardiff: University of Wales Press)
- 2009 Lords and Lordship in the British Isles in the Late Middle Ages, edited by Brendan Smith, (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
References
- ^ a b c d Obituary in The Independent 23 May 2005, Accessed 11 May 2014
- ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 512.
- ^ "Professor Sir Rees Davies". The Times. 20 December 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2012.