Nicholas John Higham FSA (born 1951) is a British archaeologist, historian, and academic. He was Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape History at the University of Manchester, and is now an emeritus professor.[1]
Nicholas J. Higham | |
|---|---|
| Born | Nicholas John Higham 72–73 |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Title | Emeritus professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
| Thesis | (1977) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Archaeology |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | University of Manchester |
Higham was trained as an archaeologist at Manchester, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in 1977.[2] He taught at Manchester from 1977 to 2011.
Bibliography
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- with Barri Jones, The Carvetti, Sutton (Gloucester, England), 1985, new edition, 1991.
- The Northern Counties to AD 1000, Regional History of England, Longman, (New York, NY), 1986.
- Rome, Britain, and the Anglo-Saxons, Seaby (London, England), 1992.
- The Kingdom of Northumbria: AD 350-1100, Sutton (Gloucester, England), 1993.
- The Origins of Cheshire, Manchester University Press (Manchester, England), 1993.
- An English Empire: Bede and the Early Anglo-Saxon Kings, Manchester University Press (Manchester, England), 1995.
- The English Conquest: Gildas and Britain in the Fifth Century, Manchester University Press (Manchester, England), 1994. (review by Christopher A. Snyder[3])
- The Convert Kings: Power and Religious Affiliation in Early Anglo-Saxon England, Manchester University Press (Manchester, England), 1997.
- The Death of Anglo-Saxon England, Sutton (Gloucester, England), 1997.
- The Norman Conquest, Sutton (Gloucester, England), 1998.
- King Arthur: Myth-making and History, Routledge (New York, NY), 2002.
- A Frontier Landscape, 2004
- King Arthur: The Making of the Legend, 2018
Honours and prizes
edit- Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) on 11 November 1989[4]
References
edit- ^ "Emeritus professors". Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies | The University of Manchester. Archived from the original on 11 August 2023.
- ^ "Nick Higham" at LinkedIn.
- ^ Arthuriana 6:3:69-71 (1996)
- ^ "Dr Nicholas Higham". Society of Antiquaries of London. Archived from the original on 27 August 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
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