David Edward Luscombe (22 July 1938 – 30 August 2021) was a British medievalist. He was

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at the

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. He was elected a fellow of the

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in 1986. He was also a fellow of the

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and the

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. He was the joint editor of volume four of ''

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''. Luscombe died on 30 August 2021, at the age of 83.

Honours

In 2014, Luscombe was awarded the British Academy Medal for his book '' The Letter Collection of Peter Abelard and Heloise''.

Selected publications

*''Medieval Thought''.

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, Oxford, 1997. *''The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 4, c. 1024–c. 1198''.

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, Cambridge, 2004. (Editor with

Jonathan Riley-Smith Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith (27 June 1938 – 13 September 2016) was a historian of the Crusades, and, between 1994 and 2005, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge. He was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. P ...

) *''The School of Peter Abelard''. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008. *''A Monastic Community in Local Society: The Beauchief Abbey Cartulary''. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012. (Editor with David Hey & Lisa Liddy)

References

1938 births 2021 deaths British medievalists Academics of the University of Sheffield Fellows of King's College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of Cambridge Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Recipients of the British Academy Medal Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge {{UK-historian-stub