Benjamin T. Hudson is an American

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based at

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in State College, Pennsylvania. He received his

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degree at Pennsylvania State University, received his Masters at University College, Dublin, and his D.Phil. at Worcester College, Oxford. He specializes in the history of Celtic-speaking peoples in the British Isles in the Early and

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, and in the Norse-Gaelic

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region of the same period.

Select bibliography

* ''The Picts'', (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) * ''Irish Sea Studies: A.D. 900-1200'', (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006) *
Viking Pirates and Christian Princes; Dynasty, Religion, and Empire in the North Atlantic
', (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) * ''The Prophecy of Berchán: Irish and Scottish Highkings in the early Middle Ages'', (Westport & London: Greenwood Press, 1996) * ''Kings of Celtic Scotland'', (Westport & London: Greenwood Press, 1994)

External links

Staff profile page at Penn State
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