Frank Barlow (historian)

Frank Barlow CBE

CBE

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 FBA

British Academy

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 FRSL (19 April 1911 - 27 June 2009) was a British historian, known particularly for biographies of medieval figures.

Frank Barlow CBE

CBE

CBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a grade in the Order of the British Empire.Other uses include:*Calgary Board of Education, public school board for the city of Calgary, Alberta...

 FBA

British Academy

The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established by Royal Charter in 1902, and is a fellowship of more than 800 scholars...

 FRSL (19 April 1911 - 27 June 2009) was a British historian, known particularly for biographies of medieval figures.

Barlow studied at St John's College, Oxford

St John's College, Oxford

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. He was Professor of History at the University of Exeter

University of Exeter

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 from 1953 until he retired in 1976 and became Emeritus Professor.. He was a Fellow of both the British Academy

British Academy

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 and the Royal Society of Literature

Royal Society of Literature

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, and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours

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"for services to the study of English medieval history".

Works

• The Feudal Kingdom of England (1955)
• The Life of King Edward Who Rests at Westminster (1962, 2nd edition 1992), editor and translator
• Edward the Confessor (1970, 2nd edition 1997)
• The English Church 1066-1154 (1979)
• The Norman Conquest and Beyond (1983)
• Thomas Becket (1986)
• The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy Bishop of Amiens (1999), editor and translator
• The Godwins: The Rise and Fall of a Noble Dynasty (2002)
• Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250: Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow

External links

• Who's who: Frank Barlow
• Obituary, The Guardian, printed 24 July 2009
• Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, printed 17 August 2009