Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke (23 June 1927 – 27 December 2015) was a British
medieval historian. From 1974 to 1994 he was
Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the
University of Cambridge
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.
Early life and education
Born on 23 June 1927, Brooke was the son of
Zachary Nugent Brooke (1883–1946) and his wife Rosa Grace Brooke (1888–1964). Following schooling at
Winchester College
Winchester College is an English Public school (United Kingdom), public school (a long-established fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) with some provision for day school, day attendees, in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It wa ...
, Brooke undertook his undergraduate work at
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, commonly known as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and ...
, where he studied with
David Knowles.
Academic career
Brooke spent his early years as head of department at Westfield College, University of London, before taking up a post at Caius from 1977 to 1994, where he remained a life fellow. He held the position of
Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge and before becoming a professor
emeritus
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In some c ...
.
He was President of the
Ecclesiastical History Society (1968–1969).
Later life
Brooke died on 27 December 2015 at the age of 88.
Personal life
He met his future wife and fellow medievalist Rosalind Brooke (née Clark) at Cambridge in 1951. She died in 2014.
Christopher N. L. Brooke died on 27 December 2015.
Selected works
Among Brooke's publications are:
* ''The Church and the Welsh Border in the Central Middle Ages''
* ''London, 800–1216: The Shaping of a City''
* ''The English Church & the Papacy, From the Conquest to the Reign of John''
* ''The Medieval Idea of Marriage''
* ''A History of the University of Cambridge. Vol. 4, 1870–1990''
* ''Churches and Churchmen in Medieval Europe''
* ''The Normans as Cathedral Builders''
* ''The Architectural History of Winchester Cathedral''
* ''The Saxon and Norman Kings''
* ''From Alfred to Henry III 871–1272''
* ''Carte Nativorum: A
Peterborough Abbey Cartulary of the Fourteenth Century''
* ''The Letters of John of Salisbury''
* ''The Letters of John of Salisbury. Vol. 2, The Later Letters (1163–1180)''
* ''A History of
Gonville and Caius College''
* ''
Gilbert Foliot
Gilbert Foliot (Wiktionary:circa, c. 1110 – 18 February 1187) was a medieval English monk and prelate, successively Abbot of Gloucester, Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London. Born to an ecclesiastical family, he became a monk at C ...
and His Letters''
* ''The Heads of Religious Houses, England and Wales: Volume 1, 940–1216''
* ''The Investiture Disputes''
* ''Religious Sentiment and Church Design in the Later Middle Ages''
* ''Archbishop Lanfranc, the English Bishops and the Council of London of 1075''
* ''The Monastic Constitutions of Lanfranc''
* ''Councils and Synods, with Other Documents Relating to the English Church: Volume I: A.D. 871–1204''
* ''Hugh the Chanter: The History of the Church of York, 1066–1127''
* ''Oxford and Cambridge''. Cambridge University Press, 1988 (with
Roger Highfield)
References
External links
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British medievalists
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Anglo-Saxon studies scholars
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Fellows of the British Academy
People educated at Winchester College
Presidents of the Ecclesiastical History Society
1927 births
2015 deaths
Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
Presidents of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
Dixie Professors of Ecclesiastical History