Thomas Charles-Edwards Explained

Birth Date:	11 November 1943
Workplaces:	University of Oxford
Alma Mater:	Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Discipline:	history
Main Interests:	Irish Dark Age

Thomas Mowbray Charles-Edwards (born 11 November 1943)^[1] is an emeritus academic at the University of Oxford.^[2] He formerly held the post of Jesus Professor of Celtic^[3] and is a Professorial Fellow at Jesus College.

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.

His expertise is in the fields of the history and language of Wales and Ireland, during the so-called 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 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.

Publications

• Charles-Edwards . Thomas . 1971 . 1971, Part 2 . The Date of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi . Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion . 263–298 . 10107/1418639. none.
• Charles-Edwards . Thomas . 1 . 1978 . Honour and Status in some Irish and Welsh Prose Tales . Ériu . 29 . 123–141 . Royal Irish Academy . 30007769. none.
• Book: Charles-Edwards, Thomas . 1 . 1978 . The Authenticity of the Gododdin: An Historian's View . R. . Bromwich . R. . Brinley Jones . Astudiaethau ar yr Hengerdd: Studies in Old Welsh Poetry, cyflwynedig i Syr Idris Foster . Cardiff . University of Wales Press . 44–71 . 0708306969. none.
• Book: Charles-Edwards . Thomas . 1 . Fergus . Kelly . 1983 . Bechbretha: an Old Irish law-tract on bee-keeping . Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies . 9781855002098 . Early Irish Law Series . 1. none.
• Book: Charles-Edwards . Thomas . 1 . Morfydd . Owen . D. B. . Walters . 1986 . Lawyers and Laymen: Studies in the History of Law presented to Professor Dafydd Jenkins on his seventy-fifth birthday . Cardiff . University of Wales Press . 0708309259. none.
• Book: Charles-Edwards, Thomas . 1 . The Welsh Laws . 1989 . Cardiff . University of Wales Press . Writers of Wales . 070831032X. none.
• Book: Charles-Edwards, Thomas . 1 . 1991 . The Arthur of History . R. . Bromwich . A. O. H. . Jarman . B. F. . Roberts . The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian legend in Medieval Welsh Literature . Cardiff . University of Wales Press . 15–32 . 0708313078 . Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages . 1. none.
• Book: Charles-Edwards . Thomas . 1 . 25 March 1993 . Early Irish and Welsh Kinship . Oxford . Clarendon Press . 9780198201038. none.
• Book: Charles-Edwards, Thomas . 1 . 30 November 2000 . Early Christian Ireland . Cambridge University Press . The Cambridge History of Ireland . 0521363950. none.
• Book: Charles-Edwards . Thomas . 1 . Morfydd . Owen . Paul . Russell . April 2002 . The Welsh King and His Court . Cardiff . University of Wales Press . 9780708316276. none.
• Book: Charles-Edwards . Thomas . 1 . 13 November 2003 . After Rome . Short Oxford History of the British Isles . Oxford University Press . 9780199249824. none.
• Book: Charles-Edwards . Thomas . 1 . Paul . Russell . 2005 . Tair Colofn Cyfraith. The Three Columns of Law in Medieval Wales: Homicide, Theft and Fire . Bangor . Welsh Legal History Society . 0954163745 . 5. none.
• Book: Charles-Edwards, Thomas . 1 . 29 November 2012 . Wales and the Britons 350–1064 . . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-821731-2. none.
• Book: Charles-Edwards, Thomas . 1 . Julian . Reid . 31 August 2017 . Corpus Christi College, Oxford: A History . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-879247-5. none.

External links

• Personal website for Jesus College.
• Electronic Bibliography of Irish Linguistics and Literature:
  • 1942–71
  • 1971–

Notes and References

1. Web site: British Academy Fellows Archive . British Academy . 4 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606070643/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ordinary.cfm?letter=C . 6 June 2011 .
2. News: New Jesus Professor of Celtic . Oxford University Gazette . University of Oxford . 14 November 1996 . 4 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110610125144/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1996-7/weekly/141196/news/story_7.htm . 10 June 2011 .
3. Charles-Edwards, Early Christian Ireland (2000).
4. Web site: Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards . Jesus Collage . 10 May 2020 .
5. Web site: Fellows of the Royal Historical Society . Royal Historical Society . 4 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100724202721/http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/rhsfellows.htm . 24 July 2010 .
6. Web site: Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards, Jesus College, University of Oxford. 2 December 2010.