Thomas Mowbray Charles-Edwards FBA (born 1943) is an academic at Oxford University. He currently holds the post of
Jesus Professor of CelticThe Jesus Professorship of Celtic is a professorship in Celtic studies at the University of Oxford. The holder is also a Professorial Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. The chair was established in 1876, and the first professor was Sir John Rhys...
and is a Professorial Fellow at
Jesus CollegeJesus College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship Street, Cornmarket Street and Market Street...
. He was educated at
Ampleforth CollegeAmpleforth College in North Yorkshire, England, is the largest private Catholic co-educational boarding school in the United Kingdom, it is otherwise known as SHAC by the pupils and it is occasionally referred to as the "Catholic Eton", a sobriquet also attached at different times to Beaumont and...
before reading History at
Corpus Christi College, OxfordCorpus Christi College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom...
, where he studied for a doctorate after taking the Diploma in Celtic Studies under
Sir Idris FosterSir Idris Llewelyn Foster was a distinguished Welsh scholar, and was most notably Jesus Professor of Celtic at the University of Oxford from 1947 until 1978....
. He held a Bergin Fellowship at the
Dublin Institute for Advanced StudiesThe Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Dublin, Ireland was established in 1940 by the Taoiseach of the time, Éamon de Valera under the . The Institute consists of 3 schools. The , the and the . The directors of these schools are currently Professor Werner Nahm, Professor Luke Drury and...
from 1968 to 1969. He then was a Junior Research Fellow and then a Fellow in History at Corpus Christi before being appointed to the chair of Celtic.
His expertise is in the fields of the
historyHistory is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it often attempts to investigate objectively the patterns...
and language of
WalesWales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom, bordered by England to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It is also an elective region of the European Union...
and
IrelandIreland is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland, separated by the Irish Sea, is the island of Great Britain...
, during the so-called 'Dark Ages', which followed the collapse of the
Roman EmpireThe Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean. The term is used to describe the Roman state during and after the time of the first emperor,...
in the west.
He is a Fellow of the
Royal Historical SocietyThe Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. The premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past, it is based at University College London.-Purpose and activities:...
and a Fellow of the
British AcademyThe 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...
.
He is a grandson of
Thomas Charles EdwardsThomas Charles-Edwards was a Welsh minister, writer and academic who was the first Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth....
, first Principal of the
University College of Wales, AberystwythAberystwyth University is a university located in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding Member Institution of the former federal University of Wales. As of late 2006, the University has over 12,000 students spread across seventeen academic departments.The University was founded in 1872 as...
.
- Lawyers and Laymen (Cardiff, 1986) (Ed.
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Thomas Mowbray Charles-Edwards FBA (born 1943) is an academic at Oxford University. He currently holds the post of
Jesus Professor of CelticThe Jesus Professorship of Celtic is a professorship in Celtic studies at the University of Oxford. The holder is also a Professorial Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. The chair was established in 1876, and the first professor was Sir John Rhys...
and is a Professorial Fellow at
Jesus CollegeJesus College is one of the colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is in the centre of the city, on a site between Turl Street, Ship Street, Cornmarket Street and Market Street...
. He was educated at
Ampleforth CollegeAmpleforth College in North Yorkshire, England, is the largest private Catholic co-educational boarding school in the United Kingdom, it is otherwise known as SHAC by the pupils and it is occasionally referred to as the "Catholic Eton", a sobriquet also attached at different times to Beaumont and...
before reading History at
Corpus Christi College, OxfordCorpus Christi College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom...
, where he studied for a doctorate after taking the Diploma in Celtic Studies under
Sir Idris FosterSir Idris Llewelyn Foster was a distinguished Welsh scholar, and was most notably Jesus Professor of Celtic at the University of Oxford from 1947 until 1978....
. He held a Bergin Fellowship at the
Dublin Institute for Advanced StudiesThe Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Dublin, Ireland was established in 1940 by the Taoiseach of the time, Éamon de Valera under the . The Institute consists of 3 schools. The , the and the . The directors of these schools are currently Professor Werner Nahm, Professor Luke Drury and...
from 1968 to 1969. He then was a Junior Research Fellow and then a Fellow in History at Corpus Christi before being appointed to the chair of Celtic.
His expertise is in the fields of the
historyHistory is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it often attempts to investigate objectively the patterns...
and language of
WalesWales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom, bordered by England to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It is also an elective region of the European Union...
and
IrelandIreland is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland, separated by the Irish Sea, is the island of Great Britain...
, during the so-called 'Dark Ages', which followed the collapse of the
Roman EmpireThe Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean. The term is used to describe the Roman state during and after the time of the first emperor,...
in the west.
He is a Fellow of the
Royal Historical SocietyThe Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. The premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past, it is based at University College London.-Purpose and activities:...
and a Fellow of the
British AcademyThe 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...
.
He is a grandson of
Thomas Charles EdwardsThomas Charles-Edwards was a Welsh minister, writer and academic who was the first Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth....
, first Principal of the
University College of Wales, AberystwythAberystwyth University is a university located in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding Member Institution of the former federal University of Wales. As of late 2006, the University has over 12,000 students spread across seventeen academic departments.The University was founded in 1872 as...
.
Publications
- Lawyers and Laymen (Cardiff, 1986) (Ed. with Morfydd Owen & D B Walters).
- Early Irish and Welsh Kinship (Oxford, 1993).
- The Welsh King and His Court (Cardiff, 2000) (Ed. with Morfydd Owen & Paul Russell).
- Early Christian Ireland (Cambridge, 2000).
- After Rome: C.400-c.800 (Oxford, 2003) (Ed.).
- Tair Colofn Cyfraith. The Three Columns of Law in Medieval Wales: Homicide, Theft and Fire (Bangor, 2005) (Ed. with Paul Russell).