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Bachelors History University of Oxford
PhD History University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Sir Richard William Southern , who published under the name R. W. Southern, was a noted English medieval historian based at the University of Oxford. Biography Southern was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 8 February 1912, and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in history. At Oxford, Southern's mentors were Sir Maurice Powicke and Vivian Hunter Galbraith. He was a fellow of Balliol from 1937 to 1961 , Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford from 1961 to 1969, and president of St John's College, Oxford, from 1969 to 1981. He was president of the Royal Historical Society from 1969 to 1973.

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The Making of the Middle Ages (1953) (344)
Western views of Islam in the Middle Ages (1962) (301)
Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (1970) (179)
Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe (1995) (133)
Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe (1986) (120)
Medieval humanism and other studies (1970) (77)
Presidential Address: Aspects of the European Tradition of Historical Writing: 4. The Sense of the Past (1973) (68)
Presidential Address: Aspects of the European Tradition of Historical Writing: 3. History as Prophecy (1972) (67)
Presidential Address: Aspects of the European Tradition of Historical Writing 1. The Classical Tradition from Einhard to Geoffrey of Monmouth (1970) (67)
Saint Anselm and his Biographer: A Study of Monastic Life and Thought 1059-c.1130 (1963) (49)
Saint Anselm: A Portrait in a Landscape (1991) (47)
The seven ages of the theatre (1962) (39)
Changeable scenery : its origin and development in the British theatre (1951) (37)
St. Anselm and His Biographer (1964) (34)
The Changing Role of Universities in Medieval Europe (1987) (33)
Ranulf Flambard and Early Anglo-Norman Administration. (The Alexander Prize Essay) (1933) (32)
The shape and substance of academic history (1961) (25)
The staging of plays before Shakespeare. (1973) (25)
The Life of St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury (1972) (22)
The heroic age (2001) (21)
The Canterbury Forgeries (1958) (18)
The medieval theatre in the round (1957) (17)
Memorials of St. Anselm (1969) (16)
The Medieval Theatre in the Round: A Study of the Staging of the Castle of Perseverance and Related Matters (1975) (16)
Presidential Address: Aspects of the European Tradition of Historical Writing: 2. Hugh of St Victor and the Idea of Historical Development (1971) (14)
THE PLACE OF ENGLAND IN THE TWELFTH‐CENTURY RENAISSANCE1 (1960) (13)
The First Life of Edward the Confessor1 (1943) (10)
I THE AGE OF IGNORANCE (1962) (7)
The Letters of Frederic William Maitland. (7)
The monks of Canterbury and the murder of Archbishop Becket (1985) (7)
Essays in medieval history (1968) (7)
The King's Two Bodies: a Study in Mediaeval Political Theology. By Ernst H. Kantorowicz. Pp. xvi + 568 + 32 Illustrations. Princeton: University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1957. 80s. (1959) (6)
Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe. Volume 1, Foundations. (1997) (6)
The Victorian theatre: A pictorial survey (1970) (5)
The Medieval Religious Stage: Shapes and Phantoms (1980) (5)
Some New Letters of Peter of Blois1 (1938) (4)
Towards an Edition of Peter of Blois's Letter-Collection* (1995) (3)
St. Anselm and the Logical Syntax of Agency (3)
On Reconstructing a Practicable Elizabethan Public Playhouse (1959) (2)
Beryl Smalley and the Place of the Bible in Medieval Studies, 1927-84 (1985) (2)
History and Historians: Selected Papers of R. W. Southern (2004) (2)
The Open Stage (1960) (2)
Essays in medieval history : selected from the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society on the occasion of its centenary (1969) (2)
Sally Vaughn's Anselm: An Examination of the Foundations * (1988) (1)
The Martyrs of Córdoba (850–859): a Study of the Sources . By Edward P. Colbert. (Catholic University of America, Studies in Medieval History, New Series, xvii). Pp. xii+492. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1962. $7.75. (1965) (1)
THE LIFE OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR1 (1965) (1)
Essentials of stage-planning (1949) (1)
The Thorny Gates of Learning in Sung China@@@Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe. Volume 1, Foundations (1996) (1)
A Benedictine Library in a Disordered World (1976) (1)
Essay Review: Technology and History: Medieval Technology and Social Change (1963) (0)
II THE CENTURY OF REASON AND HOPE (1962) (0)
The Staging of Plays before Shakespeare (1974) (0)
The making of the middle ages / R.W. Southern (1982) (0)
Love at First Sight (1939) (0)
Love at First Sight (1939) (0)
Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval English (1987) (0)
Eadmeri Vita Sancti Anselmi: The Life of St Anselm by Eadmer (1964) (0)
Methods of Presentation in Pre-Shakespearian Theatre (1975) (0)
The beauty of holiness: an introduction to six seventeenth-century Anglican writers; Archbishop William Laud, Lancelot Andrewes, Jeremy Taylor, Mark Frank, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan (1976) (0)
Stage-setting for amateurs and professionals (1937) (0)
Recent Medieval Scholarship (1976) (0)
The open stage and the modern theatre in research and practice (1953) (0)
The shape and substance of academic history : an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 2 November 1961 (1961) (0)
The Medieval English Stage: Corpus Christi Pageants and Plays.Alan H. Nelson (1976) (0)
ADDITIONS TO NOTES (1962) (0)
III THE MOMENT OF VISION (1962) (0)
Strategic planning. Local anaesthetics? (1983) (0)

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