Professor Richard Sharpe
M.A., Ph.D., F.B.A., F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S
Professor of Diplomatic
Old Indian Institute
Email: richard.sharpe@history.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Professor Sharpe's interests are broadly the history of medieval England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. He has a special concern with first-hand work on the primary sources of medieval history, including palaeography, diplomatic and the editorial process, as well as the historical and legal contexts of medieval documents. He is general editor of the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues and has published recently on medieval books and libraries before 1540 and on the Latin writers of Great Britain and Ireland. He is currently working on writs and writ-charters in eleventh- and twelfth-century England, preparing editions of the charters of William II and Henry I. Saints' lives and cults, especially those of the Celtic churches, have long been an interest.
Selected Publications:
- Medieval Irish Saints' Lives: An Introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae. (Oxford, 1991)
- Pastoral Care before the Parish. (Leicester, 1992)
- Adomnán of Iona. Life of St Columba. (London, 1995) 406pp.
- English Benedictine Libraries. The Shorter Catalogues. (London, 1996) xxx + 931pp.
- A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540. (Turnhout, 1997) xxxviii + 912pp.
- 'The thriving of Dalriada' in Kings, Clerics and Chronicles in Scotland, 500-1297. Essays in honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday. (Dublin, 2000) pp. 47-61
- 'Martyrs and Local Saints in Late Antique Britain' in Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West. (Oxford, 2002) pp. 75-154
- 'The Naming of Bishop Ithamar', English Historical Review. Vol 117 (2002) pp. 889-94
- Titulus. Identifying Medieval Latin Texts: An Evidence-Based Approach. (Turnhout , Belgium , 2003) 301pp.
- 'The Use of Writs in the Eleventh Century', Anglo-Saxon England. Vol 32 (2003) pp. 247-291
- '1088 - William II and the Rebels', Anglo-Norman Studies. Vol 26 (2004) pp. 139-57
- 'Address and Delivery in Anglo-Norman Writs and Writ-Charters' in Charters and Charter Scholarship in Britain and Ireland. (London, 2005) pp. 32-52
- 'The Varieties of Bede's Prose' in Aspects of Latin Prose. Proceedings of the British Academy. Vol 129 (London, 2005) pp. 339-55
- 'King Ceadwalla's Roman epitaph' in Latin Learning and English Lore. Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge. Vol 1 (Toronto, 2005) pp. 171-93
- 'Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), the 1697 Catalogue, and Bibliotheca Britannica', The Library The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society . Vol 7th ser. 6 (2005) pp. 381-421
- 'Monastic Reading at Thorney Abbey, 1323-1347', Traditio. Vol 60 (2005) pp. 243-78
- Norman Rule in Cumbria 1092-1136. (2006) 78pp.
- 'The Medieval Librarian' in A History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland 1 From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Civil War. (Cambridge, 2006) pp. 218-41
- 'Which Text is Rhygyfarch's Life of St David?' in St David. Cult, Church, and Nation. (Woodbridge, 2007) pp. 90-105
- 'Vita beati Dauid qui et Dewi episcopi et confessoris' in St David. Cult, Church, and Nation. (Woodbridge, 2007) pp. 107-155
- 'King Harold's daughter', Haskins Society Journal. Vol 19 (2008) pp. 1-27
Future Publications:
- 'Henry Wild (+1721), 'the poor Arabick tailor', in the Bodleian Library', Bodleian Library Record. Vol 18 (2005) pp. 16
- 'Books from Ireland, fifth to ninth centuries', Peritia. Vol 22 (2007) pp. 43
- 'Barons of the shire', 'The county court, county town, and county community', 'Barons of the honour', 'Stenton's First Century of English Feudalism' in Barons of the Shire. (2008)
- 'Claf Abercuawg and the voice of Llywarch Hen', Studia Celtica. (2008)
- 'The present and future of incunabula cataloguing II', The Library 7th ser.. Vol 9 (2008) pp. 210-24
- 'Anselm as author: publishing in the late eleventh century', Journal of Medieval Latin. Vol 19 (2009) pp. 1-65
- 'Four early booklets of Anselm's works from Salisbury cathedral', Scriptorium. Vol 63 (2009)
- 'The last years of Herbert the Chamberlain. Weaverthorpe church and hall', Historical Research. (2009) pp. 17
- 'In quest of Pictish manuscripts', Innes Review. (2009) pp. 19
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