Donald Auberon Bullough FSAScot

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(13 June 1928 – 26 June 2002) was a British historian who taught and published on the cultural and political history of Italy, England and Carolingian France during the early Middle Ages. He was the brother of mathematician

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(d. 2008). Bullough was educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme High School, then went up to

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where he took a first in History in 1950. He held a Harmsworth Senior Scholarship at

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from 1951 to 1952, and a Fereday Fellowship at St John's between 1952 and 1955. Bullough was made a Fellow of the

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in 1958, and a Fellow of the

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the following year. Bullough was successively Lecturer in Medieval History at the

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(1955-1966), Professor of Medieval History at the

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(1966-1973) and Professor of Medieval History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the

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(1973-1991). He was made Corresponding Fellow of the

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in 1983. A collection of essays under the title ''Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West: Essays in Honour of Donald A. Bullough'', edited by Julia Smith, was published in 2000. Bullough was married twice: firstly in 1963 to Belinda Jane Turland, they had two daughters, their marriage was dissolved in 1994; secondly in 1995 to Dr Alice Harting-Correa. Bullough died of cancer on 26 June 2002. In honour of his academic achievements, the Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the

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created the Donald Bullough Fellowship For A Mediaeval Historian.Donald Bullough Fellowship For A Mediaeval Historian

Selected publications

*1965. ''The Age of Charlemagne''. 2nd edition: 1973. *1969. "Early medieval social groupings: the terminology of kinship." '' Past & Present'' 45 (1969): 3-18. *1983. "Burial, community and belief in the early medieval west." In ''Ideal and reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Society'', ed.

Patrick Wormald Charles Patrick Wormald (9 July 1947 – 29 September 2004) was a British historian born in Neston, Cheshire, son of historian Brian Wormald. He attended Eton College as a King's Scholar. From 1966 to 1969 he read modern history at Balliol Colle ...

, Donald Bullough &

Roger Collins Roger J. H. Collins (born September 2, 1949) is an English medievalist, currently an honorary fellow in history at the University of Edinburgh. Collins studied at the University of Oxford ( Queen's and Saint Cross Colleges) under Peter Brown ...

. Oxford. pp. 177–201. *1991. ''Carolingian renewal: sources and heritage''. *1991. ''Friends, neighbours and fellow drinkers: aspects of community and conflict in the early medieval west''. H.M. Chadwick memorial lectures 1. Cambridge. *1996. "St Oswald: monk, bishop and archbishop", in ''St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence'', Nicholas Brooks and Catherine Cubitt eds, pp. 1–22 *2003. ''Alcuin: achievement and reputation''.

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. Leiden.

References

Sources

*Constable, Giles. "Donald Bullough Memoir." In Bullough, ''Alcuin. Achievement and Reputation''. Leiden, 2003. pp. xiii-xv.
Smith, Julia. "Obituary." In ''The Independent'', 6 July 2002
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bullough, Donald A. British medievalists Anglo-Saxon studies scholars Academics of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Nottingham Academics of the University of St Andrews 1928 births 2002 deaths 20th-century British historians