Professor Graham A Loud

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School of History
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT
UK

Email: g.a.loud@leeds.ac.uk

Background

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Education

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DPhil University of Oxford 1978

Teaching assistant at the University of Southampton, Michaelmas term 1976, and at Royal Holloway College, University of London, Summer term 1978.

Senior Scholar, Christ Church, Oxford 1975-8.

BA First Class, Modern History, University of Oxford 1974, with formal congratulations from the Board of Examiners.

Won Arnold Modern Historical Essay prize, University of Oxford 1974

Open Exhibitioner, Merton College, Oxford, 1971-4.

Career History

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Professor of Medieval Italian History (2003- )

Reader in Medieval Italian History 2000-3

Senior Lecturer in Medieval History 1992-2000

Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Leeds 1978-92

Balsdon Senior Research Fellow, British School at Rome, 1990.

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Research Outlook

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Research Output

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(a) Books.

  • Church and Society in the Norman Principality of Capua 1058-1197 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1985) xv + 283 pp
  • Church and Chronicle in the Middle Ages. Essays Presented to John Taylor, edited by GA Loud and IN Wood (London, Hambledon, 1991) xxvi + 270 pp
  • The History of the Tyrants of Sicily by Hugo Falcandus 1154-69 [with Thomas Wiedemann] (Manchester Medieval Translations 1998), xvii + 286 pp
  • Conquerors and Churchmen in Norman Italy (Variorum Collected Studies Series, Aldershot 1999), xii + 314 pp [items reprinted therein signified below CC]
  • Montecassino and Benevento in the Middle Ages. Essays in South Italian Church History (Variorum Collected Studies Series, Aldershot 2000), xi + 334 pp [items reprinted therein signified below MB]
  • The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest (Harlow: Longman/Pearson Education 2000), xii + 329 pp
  • [Hubert Houben, Roger II of Sicily. A Ruler between East and West, translated by GA Loud and DB Milburn (Cambridge University Press, 2002), xxvi + 231 pp ]
  • The Society of Norman Italy, edited by GA Loud and A Metcalfe (Leiden: Brill, 2002), xx + 347 pp
  • The History of the Normans, by Amatus of Montecassino, trans P Dunbar, revised with introduction and notes by GA Loud (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2004), xxi + 220 pp
  • The Latin Church in Norman Italy (Cambridge University Press 2007), xviii + 577 pp

(b) Parts of Books.

  • 'An introduction to the Somerset Domesday', The Somerset Domesday, ed R Erskine and A Williams (London: Alecto Historical Editions, 1989), pp 1-31.
  • 'The Muslim world before 1095', [consulting editor], in Chronicles of the Crusades, ed EM Hallam (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989), pp 19-57.
  • 'The Liri Valley in the Middle Ages', Archaeological Survey in the Lower Liri Valley, Central Italy, ed JW Hayes and IP Martini (Oxford, British Archaeological Reports, International Series 595, 1994), pp 53-68 [MB].
  • 'La Gens Normannorum: nascità di un mito letterario', I Normanni, popolo d'Europa MXXX-MCC. Catalogo della mostra, ed M d'Onofrio (Venice 1994), pp 161-3.
  • 'The English monarchy 1066-1199', The Monarchy: Fifteen Hundred Years of British Tradition, ed R Smith and JS Moore (London: Smith's Peerage Limited, for the Manorial Society, 1998), pp 101-115, 344-9.
  • 'Knight service and knights' fees', and 'William I', in Medieval England: an Encyclopedia, ed PE Szarmach, MT Taormina and JT Rosenthal (New York and London: Garland Press, 1998), pp 395-7, 787-9.
  • 'Southern Italy in the tenth century', in New Cambridge Medieval History vol III, ed T Reuter (Cambridge UP 1999), pp 624-45.
  • ‘The Papacy and the rulers of southern Italy 1058-1198’, in The Society of Norman Italy, ed GA Loud and A Metcalfe (Leiden: Brill, 2002), pp 151-84.
  • 'Southern Italy in the eleventh century', in New Cambridge Medieval History vol IV(2), ed D Luscombe and J Riley-Smith (Cambridge U.P. 2004), pp 94-119.
  • ‘Norman Sicily in the twelfth century’, in New Cambridge Medieval History vol IV(2), ed D Luscombe and J Riley-Smith (Cambridge U.P. 2004), pp 442-74.

(c) Articles

  • 'A re-examination of the "coronation" of Symeon of Bulgaria in 913', Journal of Theological Studies ns xxix (1978), 109-120.
  • 'Abbot Desiderius of Montecassino and the Gregorian papacy', Journal of Ecclesiastical History xxx (1979), 305-326 [MB].
  • 'Five unpublished charters of the Norman Princes of Capua', Benedictina xxvii (1980), 161-176 [CC].
  • 'The Norman Counts of Caiazzo and the abbey of Montecassino', Monastica I Scritti raccolti in memoria del xv centenario della nascità di S Benedetto 480-1980 (Miscellanea Cassinese 44, Montecassino 1981), pp 199-217 [MB].
  • 'Nunneries, nobles and women in the Norman Principality of Capua', Annali Canossani i (1981), 45-62 [CC].
  • 'How "Norman" was the Norman Conquest of southern Italy?', Nottingham Medieval Studies xxv (1981), 3-34 [CC].
  • 'A calendar of the diplomas of the Norman Princes of Capua', Papers of the British School at Rome xlix (1981), 99-143 [CC].
  • 'The Gens Normannorum. Myth or reality?', Proceedings of the Fourth Battle Conference on Norman Studies 1981, ed RA Brown (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1982), 104-116, 204-9 [CC].
  • 'Royal control of the Church in the twelfth-century kingdom of Sicily', Studies in Church History xviii (Religion and National Identity) (1982), 147-159 [CC].
  • 'The Church, warfare and military obligation in Norman Italy', Studies in Church History xx  (The Church and War) (1983), 31-45 [CC].
  • 'The Assise sur la Ligèce and Ralph of Tiberias', Crusade and Settlement. Papers Presented to RC Smail, ed PW Edbury (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, l985), pp 204-212.
  • 'The Abbey of Cava, its property and benefactors in the Norman era', Anglo-Norman Studies ix Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1986, ed RA Brown (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1987), 143-177 [CC].
  • 'Byzantine Italy and the Normans', Byzantium and the West. Proceedings of the XIXth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies 1984, ed JD Howard-Johnston (Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1988), pp 215-233 [CC]. 
  • 'Anna Komnena and her sources for the Normans of southern Italy', in Church and Chronicle in the Middle Ages. Essays Presented to John Taylor, ed GA Loud and IN Wood (London: Hambledon, 1991), pp 41-57 [CC].
  • 'The medieval records of the monastery of St Sophia, Benevento', Archives xix (1991), 364-373 [MB].
  • 'The abbots of St Sophia, Benevento, in the eleventh century', Quellen und Forschungen aus Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, lxxi (1991), 1-13 [MB].
  • 'Monarchy and monastery in the Mezzogiorno: the abbey of St Sophia, Benevento, and the Staufen', Papers of the British School at Rome lxix (1991), 283-318 [MB].
  • 'Norman Italy and the Holy Land', in The Horns of Hattin. Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Jerusalem-Haifa 1987, ed BZ Kedar (Jerusalem:Yad Izhak ben-Zvi, 1992), pp 49-63 [CC].
  • 'Churches and churchmen in an age of conquest: southern Italy, 1030-1130', The Haskins Society Journal, iv (1992), 39-55 [CC].
  • 'The genesis and context of the chronicle of Falco of Benevento', Anglo-Norman Studies xv Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1992, ed M Chibnall (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993), 177-198 [MB].
  • 'The case of the missing martyrs: Frederick II's war with the Church 1239-1250', Studies in Church History xxx (The Church and Martyrdom) (1993), 141-152 [MB].
  • 'Montecassino and Byzantium in the tenth and eleventh centuries', The Theotokos Evergetis and Eleventh-Century Monasticism, ed Margaret Mullett and Anthony Kirby (Belfast Byzantine Texts and Translations 6.1, 1994), pp 30-55 [MB].
  • 'Continuity and change in Norman Italy: the Campania during the eleventh and twelfth centuries', Journal of Medieval History, xxii (1996), 313-343 [CC].
  • 'A Lombard abbey in a Norman world: St Sophia. Benevento, 1050-1200', Anglo-Norman Studies, xix, Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1996, ed C Harper-Bill (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1997), 273-306 [MB].
  • 'Betrachtungen über die normannische Eroberung Süditaliens', Papstgeschichte, Reichsgeschichte, Landesgeschichte. Festschrift für Peter Herde zum 65. Geburtstag von Freunden, Schülern und Kollegen dargebracht (Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1998), pp 115-131 [CC].
  • 'Politics, piety and ecclesiastical patronage in twelfth-century Benevento', Cavalieri alla conquista del Sud. Studi sull'Italia normanna in memoria di Leon-Robert Ménager, ed E Cuozzo and J-M Martin (Rome/Bari: Laterza, 1998), pp 283-312 [MB].
  • 'William the Bad or William the Unlucky? Kingship in Sicily 1154-1166', Haskins Society Journal viii (1999, for 1996), 99-113.
  • 'Coinage, wealth and plunder in the age of Robert Guiscard', English Historical Review, cxiv (1999), 815-843.
  • 'Il regno normanno-svevo visto dal regno d'Inghilterra', in Il Mezzogiorno normanno-svevo visto dall'Europa e dal mondo mediterraneo (Atti delle tredecesime giornate normanno-sveve, Bari, 21-24 ottobre 1997) (Bari: Edizioni Dedalo, 1999), pp 175-195.
  • 'La campania nell'età normanna', in Mezzogiorno - Federico II - Mezzogiorno (Atti del convegnointernazionale di studio promosso dall’Istituto Internazionale di Studi Federiciani, Potenza-Avigliano-Castel Lagopesole-Melfi, Ottobre 1994, ed CD Fonseca (Galatina 2000), i 253-272.
  • ‘The kingdom of Sicily and the kingdom of England 1066-1266’, History lxxxviii (2003), 540-567.
  • ‘The monastic economy in the principality of Salerno during the eleventh and twelfth centuries’, Papers of the British School of Rome lxxi (2003), 147-185.
  • 'L’attivita economica dei monasteri nel principato di Salerno', in Salerno nel XII secolo. Istituzioni, società, cultura. Atti del convegno internazionale, ed P Delogu and P Peduto (Salerno 2004), 310-36.
  • 'William I de Mohun', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography xxxviii (Oxford 2004)
  • ‘Monastic chronicles in the twelfth-century Abruzzi’, Anglo-Norman Studies, xxvii, Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2004, ed J Gillingham (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005), 101-31.
  • ‘Monastic miracles in southern Italy, c 1040-c 1140’, Studies in Church History xli (Signs, Wonders, Miracles) (2005), 109-22.
  • ‘Some reflections on the failure of the Second Crusade’, Crusades. The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, iv (2005), 1-14.
  • ‘Amalfi’, ‘Arnold of Lübeck’, ‘Conrad III’, ‘Frederick Barbarossa’, ‘Gregory VII’, ‘Otto of Freising’, ‘The Pilgrimage of Henry the Lion’. ‘Roger I of Sicily’, ‘Roger II of Sicily’, ‘Sicily and the Crusades’, ‘Five letters concerning the Second Crusade’, and ‘The Lost Autobiographical Chapter of William of Tyre’s Chronicle’, in The Encyclopedia of the Crusades, ed AV Murray (4 vols., ABC Clio 2006), i.58, 96, 270-1; ii.472-5, 544-6, iii.901-2, 963-4; iv.1044-5, 1104-7, 1298-1301, 1305-7.
  • ‘Varieties of monastic discipline in Norman Italy’, Studies in Church History xliii (Discipline and Diversity) (2007), 144-58.

(d) Forthcoming Publications.

  • ‘Tipologia di discipline monastiche nell’Italia meridionale nei secoli XI e XII’, in Archivio storico per le provincie napoletane (2007)
  • ‘History writing in the twelfth-century kingdom of Sicily’, in Chronicling History in Medieval Italy, ed S Dale, A Williams Lewin and D Osheim (Penn State Press, 2008)
  • 'I Principi di Capua, Montecassino e le chiese del principato, 1058-1130', in Il Regesto di Sant’Angelo in Formis, Commentario, ed F Avagliano (Miscellanea cassinese, 2008).
  • Translations of ‘the Vatican text of King Roger’s assizes’, Caffaro’s ‘Capture of Almeria and Tortosa’, and parts of the ‘Volturno Chronicle’ and the ‘Casauria Chronicle’ in Medieval Italy: a Documentary Survey, ed K Jansen, F Andrews and J Drell (University of Pennsylvania Press 2008)
  • ‘Alexander of Telese’, ‘Amatus of Montecassino’, ‘Hugo Falcandus’, and ‘Lambert of Hersfeld’, in Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, ed G Dunphy (2009)

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