Roger Andrew Stalley (born 12 June 1945) is a scholar and teacher in medieval architecture and sculpture. His speciality is Early Gothic and Romanesque architecture and sculpture in England and Western Europe with a particular focus on Irish architecture and art. He has published numerous papers and books including ''Cistercian Monasteries of Ireland'' in 1987, for which he was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion in 1988 by the

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, and ''Early Medieval Architecture'' in 1999 for the Oxford History of Art series. He is noted for his innovative teaching practices for example, The Medieval Architecture Online Teaching Project, and is recognised in the 2021 publication ''Mapping New Territories in Art and Architectural Histories, Essays in Honour of Roger Stalley.''

Education and career

Professor Stalley spent his formative years in Coventry and Lincolnshire before graduating from the

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) with a degree in modern history, following which he read for a master's degree in the history of European art at the

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, London. He graduated in 1969 and moved to Ireland, where he has remained, apart from a brief spell in North Carolina in 1985 undertaking a fellowship at the

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. Now a Fellow Emeritus of

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(appointed 2011), he commenced his time in Ireland as a lecturer in history of art at Trinity College in 1969, where he spent the majority of his career except for his time in North Carolina and as a Fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies at

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between 1975 and 1976. Upon his retirement from university life in 2010, he had been the head of the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College for two years, having been awarded full professorship in 1990.

Honours and appointments to public bodies

* Fellow of the

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(Elected 1978) * Fellow of the

, North Carolina 1985 * Member of the

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(Elected 1993) * Member of the

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(Elected 2000) * Honorary Fellow of the

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2001 for services to Irish Architectural History Stalley has provided his services to a number of public bodies, including acting as a member of the Irish Architectural Archive, on the governing board of the

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(2002–2004), as a council member at the

(2001–2004) and as foreign advisor to the International Center of Medieval Art (New York) for three terms, the last being 2002–2005.

Other information

Photographs contributed by Roger Stalley to the Conway Library are currently being digitised by the

, as part of the Courtauld Connects project. As well as contributing, Professor Stalley has also used photographs from the library in his work, e.g. an image of Gloucester Cathedral in his article 'Innovation in English Gothic Architecture: Risks, Impediments, and Opportunities for ''British Art Studies'' in June 2017.

Selected publications

*''Architecture and Sculpture in Ireland, 1150-1350'', Dublin : Gill & Macmillan ; London : Macmillan, 1971, *''The Cistercian Monasteries of Ireland : an account of the history, art and architecture of the White Monks in Ireland from 1142 to 1540'', New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1987, *''Irish High Crosses'', Dublin : Eason & Son, 1991, *''Ireland and Europe in the Middle Ages : selected essays on architecture and sculpture'', London : Pindar, 1994, *''Early Medieval Architecture'', Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999, *''Irish Round Towers'', Dublin : Country House, 2000, *''Early Irish Sculpture and the Art of the High Crosses'', New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2020,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stalley, Roger Living people 1945 births British medievalists British art historians Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art