Jean Dunbabin

Jean Dunbabin FRHistS FBA
Born	1939 (age 85–86)
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Historian and academic
Spouse	John Dunbabin
Academic background
Thesis	Ethical problems as discussed by masters of arts and theologians in the thirteenth century universities (1964)
Doctoral advisor	Daniel Callus
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	France in the Middle Ages Kingdom of Sicily Political history Intellectual history History of philosophy History of education
Doctoral students	Matthew Kempshall

Jean Hymers Dunbabin (born 1939) is an honorary fellow of St Anne's College, University of Oxford.[1] Dunbabin specialises in medieval political communities in France c. 1000-c.1350, and in southern Italy and Sicily 1250–1310, and medieval political thought. She is a fellow of the British Academy.[2]

Dunbabin has contributed to The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy, The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350–c.1450, and The New Cambridge Medieval History.[3]

Personal life

Dunbabin is married to John Dunbabin.

Selected publications

• France in the Making, 843-1180, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985. (2nd ed. 2000)[4]
• "Government", in Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought, c. 350 - c.1450, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988, pp. 477 – 519.
• A Hound of God. Pierre de la Palud and the Fourteenth-Century Church, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991. ISBN 0198222912
• Charles I of Anjou: Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe, 1998. (Medieval World Series)[5]
• Captivity and Imprisonment in Medieval Europe, 1000 - 1300, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, 2002. ISBN 0333647157[6]
• "The household and entourage of Charles I of Anjou, king of the Regno, 1266-85", Historical Research, 77 (197), 2004, pp. 313–336.
• The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266-1305, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011. ISBN 978-0521198783[7]

References

1. Dr. Jean Dunbabin. University of Oxford, Faculty of History. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
2. Dr Jean Dunbabin. Archived 2015-10-03 at the Wayback Machine British Academy. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
3. Dunbabin, Jean. Cambridge Histories Online. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
4. "Reviewed Works: France in the Making, 843-1180 by Jean Dunbabin; Les origines by Karl Ferdinand Werner; Naissance de la nation France by Collette Beaune" T.N. Bisson, Speculum, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Oct., 1987), pp. 929-933.
5. "Jean Dunbabin, Charles I of Anjou: Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century Europe. (The Medieval World) &c." Carola M. Small, Speculum, Vol. 75 (1), January 2000, pp. 173-174.
6. Captivity and Imprisonment in Medieval Europe, 1000-1300. Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
7. Jean Dunbabin. The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266–1305. G.A. Loud, The American Historical Review, 119 (2), 2014, pp. 582-583.

Sources

• d’Avray, David (28 February 2020). "Jean Dunbabin: A Scholarly Appreciation". The English Historical Review. 139 (596): e1 – e11. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceaa002..
• d’Avray, David (30 March 2020). "Jean Dunbabin: Principal Publications". The English Historical Review. 139 (596): e12 – e14. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceaa001..