David W. Rollason is an English

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and

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. He is a Professor in history at

Durham University Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament (UK), Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by r ...

. He specialises in the cult of saints in Anglo-Saxon England, the history of

Northumbria Northumbria () was an early medieval Heptarchy, kingdom in what is now Northern England and Scottish Lowlands, South Scotland. The name derives from the Old English meaning "the people or province north of the Humber", as opposed to the Sout ...

and in the historical writings of Durham, most notably producing a modern edition and translation of the '' Libellus de exordio'' and co-operating on an edition of the '' Durham Liber Vitae''. Outside of his academic interests, David Rollason is a keen cyclist, cycling 175 miles from

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to Seaton Delaval to raise money to assist the

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in their purchase of Seaton Delaval Hall.

Selected publications

* ''The Mildrith Legend: A Study in Early Medieval Hagiography in England'' (1982) * ed. with G. Bonner and C. Stancliffe ''St Cuthbert, his Cult and his Community to AD 1200'' (1989) * ''Saints and Relics in Anglo-Saxon England'' (1989) * with D. Gore & G. Fellows-Jensen, ''Sources for York History to AD 1100'' (York, 1998) * ed. & tr. ''Symeon of Durham. Libellus de exordio atque procursu istius, hoc est Dunhelmensis, ecclesie'' (Oxford, 2000) * ''Bede and Germany'' (Jarrow Lecture, 2002) * ''Northumbria 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) . * ed. with many others, ''The Durham Liber Vitae. British Library, MS Domitian A.VII, An Edition with Digital Facsimile, and Prosopographical and Linguistic Commentaries'' (British Library, 2007) * ''Early Medieval Europe 300–1050: A Guide for Studying and Teaching'', 2nd edn (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018)

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* Academics of Durham University British medievalists English historians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Anglo-Saxon studies scholars {{UK-historian-stub