Frank Merry Stenton

Sir Frank Merry Stenton ( born May 17, 1880 in Manchester, † September 17, 1967 in Reading ) was a British medieval historian.

Stenton studied from 1899 to 1902 at the University of Oxford ( Keble College) and worked under J. Horace Round at the output of the Doomsday Book. In 1905 he became a professor at Llandovery College and from 1908 he was a Research Fellow at University College, Reading (later the University of Reading ). In 1912 he became a professor of Modern History. Despite calls to other universities, he remained there and in 1946 Vice-Chancellor. In 1950 he retired. 1929, he gave the Ford Lectures at Oxford.

Stenton regarded as authority for the Anglo-Saxon England and wrote about 1943, a standard work. He also conducted research on English place names and coins.

In 1926 he became a member of the British Academy. In 1947 he became an Honorary Fellow of his Oxford college ( Keble College) and in 1948 he was knighted ( Knight Bachelor). 1937 to 1945 he was president of the Royal Historical Society.

His wife Doris Mary Stenton (1894-1971) was also a historian, she wrote the band Early Middle Ages in the Pelican History of England. They had been married since 1919.

He is buried in Halloughton.

Writings

  • The First Century of English Feudalism, 1066-1166, Oxford, Clarenton Press 1932, 2nd edition 1961
  • Anglo - Saxon England, Oxford History of England, 1943, Oxford University Press 2001
  • William the Conqueror and the rule of the Normans, Putnam 1908, Barnes and Noble 1967
  • Types of manorial structure in the northern Danelaw, 1910, New York 1974
  • The free peasantry of the northern Danelaw, Lund 1926
  • Publisher: The Bayeux tapestry; a comprehensive survey, Phaidon Publishers, 1957
  • Preparatory to Anglo - Saxon England Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1970 ( Published by Doris Mary Stenton )
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