- Aubrey Gwynn
Aubrey Gwynn (1892-1983) was an Irish
Jesuit historian.Life
He came from a Protestant academic family, and was son of
Stephen Lucius Gwynn , but converted toRoman Catholicism at age 12 [Hugh Kearney, "Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History" (2007), p. 15.] .He wrote on Irish and church history, but also on topics including the
West Indies . He held the Chair of Medieval History atUniversity College Dublin from 1949 to 1963.Works
*"Roman Education from Cicero to Quintilian" (1926)
*"The English Austin Friars in the Time of Wyclif" (1940)
*"The Medieval Province of Armagh, 1470-1545" (1946)
*"The Writings of Bishop Patrick 1074-1084" (1955)
*"Medieval Religious Houses: Ireland" (1970) with R. N. Hadcock
*"The Irish Church in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries", edited by Gerard O'Brien
*"Twelfth Century Reform" ("A History of Irish Catholicism" II) (1968)
*"Anglo-Irish Church Life: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries" ("A History of Irish Catholicism") 1968
*"Aubrey Gwynn, Cathal Óg mac Maghnusa and the Annals of Ulster" (1998 reprint), edited by Nollaig Ó MuraíleReferences
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J. A. Watt ,J. B. Morrall ,F. X. Martin (1961), "Medieval Studies Presented to Aubrey Gwynn S. J."Notes
External links
* [http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/g/Gwynn_A/life.htm At ricorso.net]
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