Timothy Reuter

Timothy Alan Reuter ( born January 25, 1947 in Manchester, † October 14, 2002 in Southampton ) was a German - British historian of medieval history.

The grandson of the Berlin Mayor Ernst Reuter went to the school in Newcastle for the years 1965-1968 to Cambridge and then to Oxford, where he studied medieval history at Karl Leyser. In Leyser he received his doctorate in 1975 on The Papal Schism, the Empire and the West, 1159-1169. After a decade teaching at the University of Exeter, he was from 1981 to 1994 employees at the MGH in Munich, where he dealt among other things with the computer-based editing. In the MGH he was responsible for an edition of the letter book of the Abbot of Stavelot Wibald. He also contributed numerous meetings of the journal of the MGH at ( Deutsches Archive for exploration of the Middle Ages ). In 1994 he was appointed professor at the University of Southampton. He died in 2002 of a brain tumor. A call to the chair of medieval history to Munich he refused 2000.

Writings

Monographs

• Germany in the Early Middle Ages c. 800-1056. London, 1991, ISBN 0-582-49034-0.
• The medieval nobility: studies on the ruling classes of France and Germany from the 6th to the 12th century. Amsterdam 1979, ISBN 0-444-85136-4
• Medieval polities and Modern Mentalities. Edited by Janet L. Nelson. Cambridge 2006. ( Posthumously published essays Reuters)

Editorial Boards

• The Annals of Fulda. Manchester 1992, ISBN 0-7190-3458-2.
• The New Cambridge Medieval History. Vol 3, Cambridge, 2000.