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Researcher: Thomson, RM (Professor Rodney Thomson)

Fields of Research

British history
European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
Australian history
Historical studies
Asian cultural studies
Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
Biography
History of philosophy
Other philosophy and religious studies
Classical Greek and Roman history
British and Irish literature

Research Objectives

Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology
Understanding past societies
Expanding knowledge in human society
Expanding knowledge in psychology
Communication
Communication across languages and culture
Understanding Australia's past
Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture
Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies

Career Best Publications

Books and Learning in Twelfth-Century England: The Ending of 'Alter Orbis'; Red Gull Press
William of Malmesbury Saints' Lives; Oxford University Press

Research Publications

A descriptive catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge; D.S. Brewer, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in Worcester Cathedral Library; D. S. Brewer
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College Oxford; D.S. Brewer, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Merton College, Oxford; D.S. Brewer
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Medieval Manuscripts of St John's College, Oxford; English Historical Review
Books and Learning at Gloucester Abbey in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries; Books and Collectors 1200-1700
Books and Learning in Twelfth-Century England: The Ending of 'Alter Orbis'; Red Gull Press
Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts of Latin Commentaries on Aristotle in British Libraries Vol. 2; Brepols Publishers
Catalogue of medieval manuscripts of latin commentaries on Aristotles in British libraries. Vol. 1; Oxford; Brepols Publishers
Codicology; The European Book in the Twelfth Century
Discovering William of Malmesbury; Cambridge University Press
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Eilmer
English Benedictine Libraries: the Shorter Catalogues; The British Library, The British Academy
Epilogue: The Rediscovery of William of Malmesbury; Discovering William of Malmesbury
Franco Morenzoni and Jean-Yves Tilliette (eds.), Autour de Guillaume d'Auvergne (d. 1249); Journal of Ecclesiastical History
From Manuscript to Print: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Morris Miller Library, University of Tasmania, Hobart, December 2008-January 2009; University of Tasmania Library
History and History Books; The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume II 1100-1400
Introduction; The European Book in the Twelfth Century
John Dunstable and his books; Musical Times
John O Ward: A Personal Memoir; Rhetoric and Renewal in the Latin West 1100-1540: Essays in Honour of John O Ward
K. Ashley and P. Sheingorn, Writing Faith: Text, Sign, and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy; Journal of Religious History
Language and Literacy; The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume II 1100-1400
Lincoln College MS. Lat. 62: A book from the medieval library of Merton College; Bodleian Library Record
Medieval maps at Merton College Oxford; Imago Mundi: The International Journal for The History of Cartography
Mind Matters: Studies of Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual History in Honour of Marcia Colish; Journal of Religious History
Minor Manuscript Decoration from the West of England in the Twelfth Century; Reading Texts and Images: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage in honour of Margaret M. Manion
Monastic and Cathedral Book Production; The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume II 1100-1400
More fragments of Solinus in Cambridge libraries; Cambridge Bibliographical Society. Transactions
Newly Discovered Fragments of Music at Worcester Cathedral: A Preliminary Account; Interpreting and Collecting Fragments of Medieval Books
Odo of Canterbury; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Odo of Canterbury
Oxford, Merton College Ms 315: its travels and influence; Imagination, books & community in medieval Europe
Pamela J. Willetts, Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Society of Antiquaries of London; Notes and Queries
R. M. Ball, Thomas Gascoigne, Libraries and Scholarship (Cambridge Bibliographical Society Monographs, no. 14, 2006); The Library: The Transactions of The Bibliographical Society
R.H. and M.A. Rouse (eds.), Henry de Kirkestede, Catalogus de Libris Autenticis et Apocrifis; The Library: The Transactions of the Bibliographical Society
Richard Southern and the Twelfth-Century Intellectual World: Essay Review of R. W. Southern, Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe, Vol. 1: Foundations, Vol. II: The Heroic Age; Journal of Religious History
Robert Amiclas - A 12th-Century Parisian Master And His Books; Scriptorium: International Review of Manuscript Studies
Satire, Irony, and Humour in William of Malmesbury; Rhetoric and Renewal in the Latin West 1100-1540: Essays in Honour of John O Ward
Scribes and Scriptoria; The European Book in the Twelfth Century
Serlo of Wilton and the Schools of Oxford; Medium Aevum
Technology of Production of the Manuscript Book: 1.Parchment and Paper, Ruling and Ink; The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume II 1100-1400
The Bury Bible; Boydell & Brewer
The Bury Bible: Further Thoughts; Tributes to Nigel J. Morgan: Contexts of Medieval Art: Images, Objects and Ideas
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume II 1100-1400; Cambridge University Press
The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral
The English Reception of the Writings of Hugh of St Victor; Bibel und Exegese in der Abtei Saint-Victor zu Paris: Form und Funktion eines Grundtextes im europaischen Rahmen. (Corpus Victorinum. Instrumenta, 3)
The European Book in the Twelfth Century; Cambridge University Press
The place of Germany in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance; In: Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany
The Place of Germany in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance; Turning Over a New Leaf: Change and Development in the Medieval Book
The Reception of the Italian Renaisance in Fifteenth-Century Oxford: The Evidence of Books and Book-Lists; Italia Medievale e Umanistica
The St Albans Psalter: Abbot Geoffrey's Book?; The St Albans Psalter: Current Research and Perspectives
The University and College Libraries of Oxford; The British Library and The British Academy
The Use of the Vernacular in Manuscripts From Worcester Cathedral Priory; Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society, 3rd series
Where were the Latin Classics in Twelth-Century England?; English Manuscript Studies
Willelmi Meldunensis monachi Liber super explanationem Lamentationum Ieremiae prophetae; Brepols Publishers
William Malmesbury and the Classics: New Evidence; Manuscripts of the Latin Classics 800-1200
William Malmesbury: Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Boydell Press
William of Malmesbury; Boydell
William of Malmesbury; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
William of Malmesbury
William of Malmesbury (d. c. 1143)
William of Malmesbury and the Latin Classics Revisited; Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose
William of Malmesbury and the Scandinavians; Historical and Intellectual Culture in the Long Twelfth-Century: The Scandinavian Connection
William of Malmesbury Gesta Pontificvm Anglorvm: The History of the English Bishops. Volume Two: Commentary; Clarendon Press
William of Malmesbury Gesta Regum Anglorum. The History of the English Kings; Oxford University Press
William of Malmesbury Saints' Lives; Oxford University Press
William of Malmesbury's Historical Vision'; Discovering William of Malmesbury
William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum The History of the English Kings; Oxford University Press
William of Malmesbury, Historian of Crusade; Reading Medieval Studies
William of Malmesburys Diatribe against the Normans; The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past
William Reed bishop of Chichester (d. 1385) - Bibliophile?; The Study of Medieval Manuscripts of England: Festschrift in Honor of Richard W. Pfaff
Worcester Monks and Education, c. 1300; The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism

Research Projects

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Worcester Cathedral Lrary.; Australian Research Council (ARC)
English political and intellectual history, c. 1066-1500: studies in the sources; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Lady Jane Franklin in Tasmania: an Edition of her Journals and Correspondence, 1836-1843; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Memory and Memorial: Uses of the Past in English History, c.1100-1500; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Neil Ker Memorial Fund; British Academy (BRAC)

Research Candidate Supervision

Celt and Saxon- Interaction in pre-Viking Britain, c.600-800
Contributions to the Textual History of the Medieval Latin Redactions of the Visio Pauli
Lieutenant-Governor William Sorell 1817-1824
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The life and repertoire ofthe Australian bariton, Peter Dawson (1882 - 1961)- An historical and musicological enquiry
The Twenty-four Caprices of Nicolo Paganini
Title- Scholia Bernensia- An Edition of the Scholia on the Eclogues of Virgil in Bern Stadtbibliothek Manuscript 172