Thomas Charles-Edwards

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Thomas Charles-Edwards

Irish Dark Age

Thomas Mowbray Charles-Edwards

Fellow at Jesus College.[2]

Biography

He was educated at Ampleforth College before reading History at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he studied for a doctorate after taking the Diploma in Celtic Studies under Sir Idris Foster.[4] He studied at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies from 1967 to 1969. He then was a junior research fellow and then a fellow in history at Corpus Christi College before being appointed to the chair of Celtic.[2]

His expertise is in the fields of the

Irish Dark Age (during the Roman Empire) and the general "Dark Ages", which followed the collapse of the Roman Empire
in the west.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society,[5] a Fellow of the British Academy[1] and a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He was elected honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2007.[6]

He is a great-grandson of Thomas Charles Edwards, first Principal of Aberystwyth University.[citation needed]

Publications

References

  1. ^ a b "British Academy Fellows Archive". British Academy. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  2. ^ a b c University of Oxford (14 November 1996). "New Jesus Professor of Celtic". Oxford University Gazette. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  3. ^ Charles-Edwards, Early Christian Ireland (2000).
  4. ^ "Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards". Jesus Collage. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Fellows of the Royal Historical Society". Royal Historical Society. Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  6. ^ "Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards, Jesus College, University of Oxford". Retrieved 2 December 2010.

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