Henry Mayr-Harting

Henry Maria Robert Egmont Mayr- Harting ( born April 6, 1936 in Prague ) is a British historian.

Henry Mayr- Harting attended Merton College and received 1957 and 1961 the Bachelor D.Phil. His academic career began at the University of Liverpool as an Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer in medieval history ( 1960-1968 ). From 1968 to 1997 he was a Fellow and Tutor at St Peter 's College. From 1976 to 1997 he was a lecturer at Merton College. 1987 to 1988 he was Slade Professor of Fine Art from 1993 to 1997, Mayr- Harting reader in medieval history. In 1997 he was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History (Department of Church History ) at the University of Oxford, where he taught until 2003.

Mayr- Harting, specializing in church history, one of its main focuses is the age of the Ottos. Harting has received numerous honors and memberships for his research. He became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1992. He is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2001. He was succeeded by the Lawrence University (1998), the University of the South (1999) and the University of East Anglia (2009) awarded an honorary doctorate.

Writings

• Church and cosmos in early Ottonian Germany. The view from Cologne. Oxford 2007, ISBN 0-19-921071-3.
• Ottonian book illumination. An historical study. 2nd edition, London 1999, ISBN 1-87250-174-5.
• Ottonian book illumination. Liturgical art in the realm of the emperors, bishops and abbots. [ Translator's from English: Rainer Zerbst ], Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-7630-1216-8.
• The coming of christianity to Anglo - Saxon England. London 1972, ISBN 0-7134-1360-3.