- Source: Fiona Edmonds
Fiona Edmonds (born 1980) is an English academic, a medievalist and historian of Britain and Ireland, specialising in the era between the sixth and the twelfth centuries, with a particular focus on the history of the Britons of Wales and the Old North, as well as Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
She was a student of the University of Oxford, and completed her doctorate at New College, Oxford by 2006. She subsequently joined Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, where she became a senior lecturer before moving to Lancaster University.
Her work on Gaelic influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom won the Frank Watson Book Prize in 2021 for "best book in Scottish history" over the previous two years, and was also shortlisted for the Saltire Society Literary Awards "Scottish History Book of the Year" in 2021. At Lancaster she is professor in regional history and the director of the Regional Heritage Centre.
Select publications
"Personal names and the cult of Patrick in eleventh-century Strathclyde and Northumbria", in Steven Boardman, John Reuben Davies and Eila Williamson (eds), Saints' Cults in the Celtic World (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2009), pp. 42-65.
Whithorn's renown in the early medieval period : Whithorn, 'Futerna' and 'magnum monasterium' (Whithorn : Friends of the Whithorn Trust, 2009)
(ed. with Paul Russell) Tome : studies in medieval Celtic history and law in honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards (Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell, 2011)
Gaelic influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom : the Golden Age and the Viking Age (Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2019)
References
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- Kerajaan Strathclyde
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- Penghargaan Grammy untuk Lagu R&B Terbaik
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- MTV Unplugged
- Fiona Edmonds
- Charles James O'Donnell
- History of medieval Cumbria
- Frank Watson Book Prize
- Sonali Deraniyagala
- Battle of Carham
- Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge
- Cumbria County History Trust
- Fiona Cram
- Saltire Society Literary Awards