Benjamin T. Hudson is an American

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based at

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State College, Pennsylvania State College is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough and Home rule municipality (Pennsylvania), home rule municipality in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a college town, home to the University Park, Pennsylvania, University Park ...

. He received his

Bachelor of Arts A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...

degree at Pennsylvania State University, received his Masters at

University College, Dublin University College Dublin (), commonly referred to as UCD, is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a collegiate university, member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 38,417 students, it is Ireland's largest ...

, and his D.Phil. at

Worcester College, Oxford Worcester College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms was ad ...

. He specializes in the history of Celtic-speaking peoples in the British Isles in the Early and

High Middle Ages The High Middle Ages, or High Medieval Period, was the periodization, period of European history between and ; it was preceded by the Early Middle Ages and followed by the Late Middle Ages, which ended according to historiographical convention ...

, 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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