Richard Sharpe (historian) explained

Richard Sharpe,, Hon. (17 February 1954 – 22 March 2020)[1] [2] [3] was a British historian and academic, who was Professor of Diplomatic at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. His broad interests were the history of medieval England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. He had a special concern with first-hand work on the primary sources of medieval history, including the practices of palaeography, diplomatic and the editorial process, as well as the historical and legal contexts of medieval documents. He was the general editor of the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, and editor of a forthcoming edition of the charters of King Henry I of England.[4] [5]

Biography

Sharpe studied at St Peter's School, York and then took his BA at Trinity College, Cambridge, studying Classics for Part I of the degree and then Anglo Saxon, Norse and Celtic for Part II, where he studied with, amongst others, Simon Keynes, Kathleen Hughes and Michael Lapidge. He graduated with a first in 1977, and published his first book, a history of Raasay the same year.[6] [7] Sharpe stayed in the ASNaC department for his PhD, on Latin-language Irish hagiography, which was the basis for his 1991 Medieval Irish Saints' Lives: an introduction to 'Vitae sanctorum Hiberniae'.[8] [9] From 1981 to 1990, Sharpe was an assistant editor of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources.[10]

As the University of Oxford's 2018–2019 Lyell Reader in Bibliography, Sharpe delivered that year's Lyell Lectures on the topic of "Libraries and Books in Medieval England: The Role of Libraries in a Changing Book Economy".[11] [12] He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2003,[13] and an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2018.[14] [15] In 2020, he was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.[16]

Publications

Books as author

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sharpe, Prof. Richard . Who's Who 2020 . Oxford University Press . 2019 . 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U4000410 .
  2. Web site: Professor Richard Sharpe (1954–2020) . Wadham College . University of Oxford . 2020-03-23 . 2020-05-12 . 23 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200323223458/https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/2020/march/professor-richard-sharpe-1954-2020 . dead .
  3. Web site: Richard Sharpe obituary. Ramsay. Nigel. 2020-05-05. The Guardian. en. 2020-05-12.
  4. Web site: Professor Richard Sharpe . University of Oxford History Faculty . https://web.archive.org/web/20191208133911/https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-richard-sharpe . 2019-12-08 . 2020-03-23.
  5. Web site: Richard Sharpe . University of Oxford History Faculty . https://web.archive.org/web/20160608134124/http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/faculty/staff/profile/sharpe/index.html . 2016-06-08. (Staff profile on former website with links to some publications.)
  6. Thomas Charles-Edwards, 'Tribute to Professor Richard Sharpe (1954-2020)' (2 April 2020).
  7. 'Appendix V. Candidates who Took the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos between 1900 and 1999', in H. M. Chadwick and the Study of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in Cambridge, ed. by Michael Lapidge [=''Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies'', 69–70] (Aberystwyth: Department of Welsh, Aberystwyth University, 2015), pp. 257–66 (p. 263). .
  8. Web site: Richard Sharpe, Professorial Fellow, Wadham College . Wadham College University of Oxford . 2020-01-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200113161021/https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/people/fellows-and-academic-staff/s/richard-sharpe . 2020-03-23.
  9. 'Appendix VI. Theses Approved for the Degree of Ph.D. in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (in Various Guises) Between 1900 and 1999', in H. M. Chadwick and the Study of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in Cambridge, ed. by Michael Lapidge [=''Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies'', 69–70] (Aberystwyth: Department of Welsh, Aberystwyth University, 2015), pp. 266–69 (p. 267). .
  10. Richard Ashdowne, 'Richard Sharpe', DMLBS: Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (23 March 2020).
  11. Web site: The Lyell Lectures . Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford . 2020-03-23 .
  12. Web site: Series featuring Richard Sharpe . The Bodleian Libraries BODcasts . University of Oxford . 2020-03-23.
  13. Web site: The British Academy . Professor Richard Sharpe FBA . 2020-03-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200322214319/https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/richard-sharpe-FBA . 2020-03-22.
  14. Web site: The Royal Irish Academy . Member Profile: Richard Sharpe . 2019-05-30 . 2020-03-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191129215037/https://www.ria.ie/news/membership/member-profile-richard-sharpe . 2019-11-29.
  15. Web site: 27 New Members elected to the Academy . Royal Irish Academy . 24 May 2019 . 27 Nov 2021.
  16. News: MAA News – MAA Fellows Election Results . 2020-03-23 . Medieval Academy of America . 2020-02-03.

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