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Sir Richard W. Southern (1912-2001) was a notable medieval historian, based at the University of Oxford.
Southern was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and educated at the Royal Grammar School there and at Balliol College, Oxford. He was a Fellow of Balliol from 1937-61, Chichele Professor of History at Oxford from 1961-9, and President of St Johns College, Oxford, from 1969-81. He was knighted in 1974. He died in Oxford.
Bibliography
- The Making of the Middle Ages
- Medieval Humanism: And Other Studies
- Medieval Theatre in the Round
- Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe
- St. Anselm: A Portrait in a Landscape
- Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages
- Western Views of Islam in the Middle Ages
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