Patricia Skinner (historian) explained

Patricia Skinner
Nationality:British
Alma Mater:University of Birmingham (PhD)
Discipline:History

Patricia E. Skinner, FRHistS (born 1965) is a British historian and academic, specialising in Medieval Europe. She was until August 2020 Professor of History at Swansea University. She was previously Reader in Medieval History at the University of Winchester and Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Southampton.[1] [2] She has published extensively on the social history of southern Italy and health and medicine.[3] With Dr Emily Cock, she started the project "Effaced from History: Facial Difference and its Impact from Antiquity to the Present Day" to study the history of facial disfigurement.[4]

Skinner received her PhD in Medieval History from the University of Birmingham in 1990. Her thesis on the Duchy of Gaeta was published in 1995 as Family Power in Southern Italy.[5] In 1997, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[6] She has been co-editor of Social History of Medicine since 2014,[7] and a member of the council of the Royal Historical Society since 2015.[8]

Selected works

As author
  • Book: P. Skinner . Family Power in Southern Italy: The Duchy of Gaeta and its Neighbours, 850–1139 . Cambridge . Cambridge University Press . 1995 . 978-0521464796.
  • Book: P. Skinner . Health and Medicine in Early Medieval Southern Italy . Leiden . Brill . 1997 . 978-9004103948.
  • Book: P. Skinner . Medieval Amalfi and Its Diaspora, 800–1250 . Oxford . Oxford University Press . 2013 . 978-0199646272.
  • Book: P. Skinner . Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe . Palgrave Macmillan . 2017 . 978-1349950737 .
    As editor
  • Book: P. Skinner . Jews in Medieval Britain: Historical, Literary and Archaeological Perspectives . 2003 . Boydell Press . Rochester, N.Y. . 978-0851159317.
  • Book: P. Skinner . Challenging the Boundaries of Medieval History: The Legacy of Timothy Reuter . 2009 . Turnhout . Brepols . 978-2503523590.

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Professor Patricia Skinner. Swansea University. 28 January 2017.
    2. Web site: RHS Lecture: Dr Patricia Skinner, 'Better off dead than disfigured'? The challenges of facial injury in the premodern past'. The Royal Historical Society. 28 January 2017. 2014.
    3. Book: About the authors . Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe . Palgrave Macmillan . 28 January 2017.
    4. Web site: About . Effaced from History? . 28 January 2017. 2015-09-21 .
    5. , book flap.
    6. Web site: Fellows - S. The Royal Historical Society. 28 January 2017. May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202072959/http://5hm1h4aktue2uejbs1hsqt31.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/RHS-Fellows-S.pdf. 2 February 2017. dead.
    7. Web site: Social History of Medicine. Oxford University Press. 28 January 2017.
    8. Web site: Professor Patricia Skinner. The Royal Historical Society. 28 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202051000/http://royalhistsoc.org/person/dr-patricia-skinner/. 2 February 2017. dead.

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