海角黑料

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  Nottingham
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• Peter.Darby@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I joined the Department of History at the 海角黑料 in September 2013 having previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leicester (2010-2013). Prior to this I studied at the universities of Reading (BA), Durham (MA), and Birmingham (PhD). I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research

I am primarily a historian of the Early Middle Ages. Though my interests are wide ranging, I have developed a particular specialism in the cultural history of the English kingdoms in the 6th to 9th centuries. My wider research interests include letter writing, heresy, eschatology, the reception and transmission of ancient texts in the Middle Ages, and the interplay between text and image in manuscript illumination.

My second monograph concerns the epistolary culture of early medieval Northumbria (Letter writing in the Northumbrian Kingdom, 625-786). This project was funded by a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2023-24). The book is contracted to Manchester University Press and will be published in 2026. I have also written shorter pieces on individual letters, including one by Bede to a colleague named Plegwine (2020), one to St Boniface by a Mercian bishop called Torhthelm (2025), and Abbess 脝lffl忙d of Whitby's letter to Adela of Pfalzel (2026). Another article explores the two papal petitions composed in the name of the Northumbrian bishop Wilfrid (2026).

My research on the Northumbrian monk and scholar Bede (c.673-735) has generated several publications including a monograph Bede and the end of time (Ashgate 2013), a volume of essays (co-edited with Faith Wallis) on the theme Bede and the future (Ashgate 2014), another collection (with M谩ir铆n MacCarron) called Bede the scholar (Manchester University Press 2023), and individual essays on a variety of themes.

I have also published on the Codex Amiatinus, an illuminated single-volume Bible made in the early eighth century. This important artefact is the earliest full witness to Jerome's Vulgate translation of the Scriptures into Latin. A series of articles have examined some of the images preserved in the Codex in light of key works of exegesis by the Church Fathers (see 'publications' tab for full details).

I am currently mentoring Dr Samuel Cardwell's British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship on Northumbrian exegesis (2024-2027).

Teaching

Though I am primarily a historian of the early Middle Ages, I teach across a wide range of historical periods and topics. I convene a specialist final-year module which explores the history of Apocalyptic thought from the biblical era to the present day, and I also run courses examining early-medieval Britain during the period of its conversion to Christianity. I have served tenures as Director of Teaching and Lead Exams Officer for the Department of History. I hold advanced teaching qualifications in both Higher and Secondary Education.

At postgraduate level I contribute to team taught courses for the MA Programme in History. I am an experienced PhD supervisor who has guided six students to successful completion, five of whom were on funded scholarships. I am currently supervising three further PhD projects. I would welcome enquiries about doctoral research supervision in any area broadly connected to my research interests.

Selected Publications

• PETER DARBY and M脕IR脥N MACCARRON, eds., 2023. Bede the Scholar Manchester University Press.
• PETER DARBY, ROB LUTTON and CLAIRE TAYLOR, eds., 2019. Brepols.
• DARBY, PETER and WALLIS, FAITH, eds., 2014. Ashgate.
• DARBY, P., 2012. Ashgate.

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• PETER DARBY, 2026. 脝lffl忙d of Whitby鈥檚 letter to Adela of Pfalzel The Mediaeval Journal. 13.1, 7-40
• PETER DARBY, 2026. The papal petitions of Bishop Wilfrid Historical Research. (In Press.)
• PETER DARBY, 2025. Early Medieval Europe. 33, 244-273
• PETER DARBY, 2024. Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register.
• PETER DARBY and M脕IR脥N MACCARRON, eds., 2023. Bede the Scholar Manchester University Press.
• PETER DARBY and M脕IR脥N MACCARRON, 2023. The autobiographical statement of Bede the Scholar in Ecclesiastical History 5:24. In: PETER DARBY and M脕IR脥N MACCARRON, eds., Bede the Scholar Manchester University Press.
• PETER DARBY and M脕IR脥N MACCARRON, 2023. Introduction. In: PETER DARBY and M脕IR脥N MACCARRON, eds., Bede the Scholar Manchester University Press. 1-6
• PETER DARBY, 2022. Nottingham Medieval Studies. 64, 167-84
• PETER DARBY, 2020. . In: DEGREGORIO, S and KERSHAW, P, eds., Cities, Saints and Communities in Early Medieval Europe Brepols. 145-70
• PETER DARBY, 2020. Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland. 30, 59-87
• PETER DARBY, ROB LUTTON and CLAIRE TAYLOR, eds., 2019. Brepols.
• PETER DARBY, ROB LUTTON and CLAIRE TAYLOR, 2019. . In: PETER DARBY, ROB LUTTON and CLAIRE TAYLOR, eds., Nottingham Medieval Studies 63: Special Issue: Heretical self-defence in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 63. Brepols. 1-21
• PETER DARBY, 2018. . In: GABRIELE, M and PALMER, J, eds., Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages Routledge. 77-100
• PETER DARBY, 2017. Speculum. 92(2), 343-71
• PETER DARBY, 2017. . In: NEWMAN, C, MANNION, M and GAVIN, F, eds., Islands in a Global Context Four Courts Press. 34-40
• PETER DARBY, 2017. Beda (ca. 673鈥�735). In: HEMPELMANN, H., SWARAT, U., GEBAUER, R., HEINRICHS, W., RAEDEL, C. and ZIMMERLING, P., eds., Evangelische Lexikon f眉r Theologie und Gemeinde SCM R.Brockhaus.
• DARBY, PETER and WALLIS, FAITH, eds., 2014. Ashgate.
• DARBY, PETER, 2014. . In: DARBY, PETER and WALLIS, FAITH, eds., Bede and the Future Ashgate. 115-138
• DARBY, PETER and WALLIS, FAITH, 2014. . In: DARBY, PETER and WALLIS, FAITH, eds., Bede and the Future Ashgate. 1-21
• DARBY, PETER and REYNOLDS, DANIEL, 2014. Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant. 9, 27-31
• DARBY, P, 2013. . In: WIESER, V, ZOLLES, C, FEIK, C, ZOLLES, M and SCHL脰NDORFF, L, eds., Abendl盲ndische Apokalyptik. Kompendium zur Genealogie der Endzeit Akademie Verlag. 619-640
• DARBY, P., 2013. Early Medieval Europe. 21(4), 390-421
• DARBY, P., 2012. Ashgate.