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Celtic essays, 2001–2007
Dumville, David N., Celtic essays, 2001–2007, 2 vols, vol. 1, Aberdeen: Centre for Celtic Studies, University of Aberdeen, 2007.
Celtic essays, 2001–2007
Dumville, David N., Celtic essays, 2001–2007, 2 vols, vol. 2, Aberdeen: Centre for Celtic Studies, University of Aberdeen, 2007.
A palaeographer's review: the insular system of scripts in the early Middle Ages
Dumville, David N., A palaeographer's review: the insular system of scripts in the early Middle Ages, 2 vols, vol. 2, Kansai University Institute of Oriental and Occidental Studies, Sources and Materials Series, 20.2, Suita, Osaka: Kansai University Press, 2007.
Brenhinoedd y Saeson, ‘The kings of the Saxons’, AD 682–954: texts P, R, S in parallel
Dumville, David N., Brenhinoedd y Saeson, ‘The kings of the Saxons’, AD 682–954: texts P, R, S in parallel, Basic Texts for Medieval British History, 1, Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen, Department of History, 2005.
Abbreviations used in insular script before A.D. 850: tabulation based on the work of W. M. Lindsay
Dumville, David N., Abbreviations used in insular script before A.D. 850: tabulation based on the work of W. M. Lindsay, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Manuscript Studies, 2, Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 2004.
The early mediaeval Insular churches and the preservation of Roman literature: towards a historical and palaeographical reëvaluation
Dumville, David N., The early mediaeval Insular churches and the preservation of Roman literature: towards a historical and palaeographical reëvaluation, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Manuscript Studies, 3, Cambridge: Department of ASNC, 2004. iv + 51 pp.
Cáin Adomnáin and Canones Adomnani
Ó Néill, Pádraig P., and David N. Dumville [eds. and trs.], Cáin Adomnáin and Canones Adomnani, Basic Texts in Gaelic History, 2, Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 2003.
Annales Cambriae, A.D. 682-954: texts A-C in parallel
Dumville, David N., Annales Cambriae, A.D. 682-954: texts A-C in parallel, Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 2002. pp. v-xix + 1-24.
Saint David of Wales
Dumville, David N., Saint David of Wales, Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lectures, 1, Cambridge: ASNC, 2000.
A palaeographer's review: the insular system of scripts in the early Middle Ages
Dumville, David N., A palaeographer's review: the insular system of scripts in the early Middle Ages, 2 vols, vol. 1, Kansai University Institute of Oriental and Occidental Studies, Sources and Materials Series, 20.1, Suita, Osaka: Kansai University Press, 1999.
Councils and synods of the Gaelic early and central Middle Ages
Dumville, David N., Councils and synods of the Gaelic early and central Middle Ages, Quiggin Pamphlets on the Sources of Mediaeval Gaelic History, 3, Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 1997. ii + 62 pp.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a collaborative edition, vol. 1. Facsimile of MS. F.: The Domitian bilingual
Dumville, David [ed.], The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a collaborative edition, vol. 1. Facsimile of MS. F.: The Domitian bilingual, Cambridge: Brewer, 1995.
Britons and Anglo-Saxons in the Early Middle Ages
Dumville, David N., Britons and Anglo-Saxons in the Early Middle Ages, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 379, Aldershot: Variorum, 1993.
English Caroline script and monastic history: studies in Benedictinism, AD 950-1030
Dumville, David N., English Caroline script and monastic history: studies in Benedictinism, AD 950-1030, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History, 6, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1993.
Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar
Dumville, David N., Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History, 3, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1992.
Liturgy and the ecclesiastical history of late Anglo-Saxon England: four studies
Dumville, David N., Liturgy and the ecclesiastical history of late Anglo-Saxon England: four studies, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History, 5, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1992.
Histories and pseudo-histories of the insular Middle Ages
Dumville, David N., Histories and pseudo-histories of the insular Middle Ages, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 316, Aldershot: Variorum, 1990.  
abstract:
The centuries that followed the Roman withdrawal from the British Isles have not been called 'Dark' for nothing; in the sources that survive, fact and legend seem inextricably intertwined, and the work of later medieval writers has only deepened the confusion. Dr. Dumville has done much to help dissect and disentangle these sources, probing the cultural history of the Insular Middle Ages, tracing the channels through which historical knowledge was transmitted and the interaction of political thought and historical writing - ideologically based historiography looms large as evidence in any attempt to grasp how medieval people comprehended their past. In these essays, he concentrates on the historiographical practices of the Irish, Britons and English, which shared much in common. Specific themes are the Insular cultivation of genealogy, the classic British pseudo-history (as in the Historia Brittonum and Geoffrey of Monmouth), the important Cistercian school of historical studies at Sawley, and the traditions of annalistic chronicling. An important section of Addenda is also provided.
(source: the publisher’s promotional abstract)
abstract:
The centuries that followed the Roman withdrawal from the British Isles have not been called 'Dark' for nothing; in the sources that survive, fact and legend seem inextricably intertwined, and the work of later medieval writers has only deepened the confusion. Dr. Dumville has done much to help dissect and disentangle these sources, probing the cultural history of the Insular Middle Ages, tracing the channels through which historical knowledge was transmitted and the interaction of political thought and historical writing - ideologically based historiography looms large as evidence in any attempt to grasp how medieval people comprehended their past. In these essays, he concentrates on the historiographical practices of the Irish, Britons and English, which shared much in common. Specific themes are the Insular cultivation of genealogy, the classic British pseudo-history (as in the Historia Brittonum and Geoffrey of Monmouth), the important Cistercian school of historical studies at Sawley, and the traditions of annalistic chronicling. An important section of Addenda is also provided.
(source: the publisher’s promotional abstract)
The Historia Brittonum
Dumville, David N., The Historia Brittonum, vol. 2: The ‘Chartres’ recension, Cambridge: Brewer, 1988.
The Historia Brittonum
Dumville, David N., The Historia Brittonum, 3 vols, Cambridge: Brewer, 1985–1988.
includes: David N. Dumville, The Historia Brittonum: The ‘Vatican’ recension, vol. 3 • David N. Dumville, The Historia Brittonum: The Sawley and Durham recensions, vol. 7 • David N. Dumville, The Historia Brittonum: The ‘Chartres’ recension, vol. 2
The Historia Brittonum
Dumville, David N., The Historia Brittonum, vol. 7: The Sawley and Durham recensions, Cambridge: Brewer, 1986.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a collaborative edition, vol. 17. The annals of St. Neots with Vita prima Sancti Neoti
Dumville, David N., and Michael Lapidge [eds.], The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a collaborative edition, vol. 17. The annals of St. Neots with Vita prima Sancti Neoti, Cambridge: Brewer, 1985.
The Historia Brittonum
Dumville, David N. [ed.], The Historia Brittonum, vol. 3: The ‘Vatican’ recension, Cambridge: Brewer, 1985.
Chronicles and annals of mediaeval Ireland and Wales: the Clonmacnoise-group texts
Grabowski, Kathryn, and David Dumville [ed.], Chronicles and annals of mediaeval Ireland and Wales: the Clonmacnoise-group texts, Studies in Celtic History, 4, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1984.

Theses

Dumville, David N., “Textual history of the Welsh-Latin Historia Brittonum”, Ph.D. thesis, Edinburgh University, 1975.  
abstract:
This thesis presents a new edition of the major recensions of the Historia Brittonum. It is the first to depart from the pattern of conflated texts which has been followed by editors since 1691. Each may now be read as a text in its own right. I have argued that the 'Harleian' recension is the primary version of the Historia Brittonum and belongs to the year 829/30, and have shown that the attribution of the work to one 'Nennius' is late and unacceptable. The complicated textual tradition has been examined, from this early-ninth-century origin, throughout its mediaeval history; the fullest development is seen in the 'Sawley' recension of the beginning of the thirteenth century. I have also considered the early modern tradition of the work, represented by a large group of paper manuscripts prepared by or for the antiquaries of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as no printed text was available until 1691. In addition to detailed studies of manuscripts and textual tradition, I have prepared a literal modern English translation of the primary recension and have made a detailed preliminary study of its latinity. My remarks on the later recensions concentrate on establishing the filiation of the manuscripts and on placing each new version within the context of the textual tradition as a whole. This has seemed to be the primary requirement in any new investigation of the Historia. Work can now go forward, from a secure textual base, on the implications of this important series of texts for historical and literary studies.
(source: ERA)
Edinburgh Research Archive – PDF: <link>
abstract:
This thesis presents a new edition of the major recensions of the Historia Brittonum. It is the first to depart from the pattern of conflated texts which has been followed by editors since 1691. Each may now be read as a text in its own right. I have argued that the 'Harleian' recension is the primary version of the Historia Brittonum and belongs to the year 829/30, and have shown that the attribution of the work to one 'Nennius' is late and unacceptable. The complicated textual tradition has been examined, from this early-ninth-century origin, throughout its mediaeval history; the fullest development is seen in the 'Sawley' recension of the beginning of the thirteenth century. I have also considered the early modern tradition of the work, represented by a large group of paper manuscripts prepared by or for the antiquaries of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as no printed text was available until 1691. In addition to detailed studies of manuscripts and textual tradition, I have prepared a literal modern English translation of the primary recension and have made a detailed preliminary study of its latinity. My remarks on the later recensions concentrate on establishing the filiation of the manuscripts and on placing each new version within the context of the textual tradition as a whole. This has seemed to be the primary requirement in any new investigation of the Historia. Work can now go forward, from a secure textual base, on the implications of this important series of texts for historical and literary studies.
(source: ERA)

Works edited

Church and society in Ireland, A. D. 400–1200
Hughes, Kathleen, Church and society in Ireland, A. D. 400–1200, ed. David N. Dumville, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 258, London: Variorum Reprints, 1987.
The church and the Welsh border in the central Middle Ages
Brooke, Christopher N. L., The church and the Welsh border in the central Middle Ages, ed. David N. Dumville, Studies in Celtic History, 8, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1986.
Celtic Britain in the early Middle Ages: studies in Scottish and Welsh sources
Hughes, Kathleen, Celtic Britain in the early Middle Ages: studies in Scottish and Welsh sources, ed. David N. Dumville, Studies in Celtic History, 2, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1980.  
Papers revised or previously unpublished
Papers revised or previously unpublished

Works edited

Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993
Dumville, David N., and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, Studies in Celtic History, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993.
France and the British Isles in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: essays by members of Girton College, Cambridge, in memory of Ruth Morgan
Jondorf, Gillian, and David N. Dumville (eds), France and the British Isles in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: essays by members of Girton College, Cambridge, in memory of Ruth Morgan, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1991.
Gildas: new approaches
Lapidge, Michael, and David N. Dumville (eds), Gildas: new approaches, Studies in Celtic History, 5, Cambridge: Boydell Press, 1984.
Ireland in early medieval Europe: studies in memory of Kathleen Hughes
Whitelock, Dorothy, Rosamund McKitterick, and David N. Dumville (eds), Ireland in early medieval Europe: studies in memory of Kathleen Hughes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Contributions to journals

Dumville, David N., “From late antiquity to early modernity: a history of Gaelic literature, A.D. 250–1750”, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 36 (2018): 90–104.
Dumville, David N., “Frivolity and reform in the church: the Irish experience, 1066–1166”, Studies in Church History 48 — The church and literature (2012): 47–64.  
abstract:

In mid November 1064, what was perhaps the most important pre-Crusade pilgrimage to Jerusalem left Bavaria under the leadership of Günther, bishop of Bamberg. The number of pilgrims, all unarmed, is stated as some seven thousand in the least incredible source text. The leading ecclesiastics came from all over the northern half of the Empire, from Utrecht to Regensburg. A substantial contingent hailed from the province of Mainz, led by Archbishop Siegfried. Only some two thousand are said to have returned the following year. Our earliest source is the chronicle kept at Mainz by the Gaelic inclusus, Moelbrigte / Marianus Scottus (d. 1082/3), who had lived at Mainz since 1069 and was certainly writing his chronicle by 1073/4.

abstract:

In mid November 1064, what was perhaps the most important pre-Crusade pilgrimage to Jerusalem left Bavaria under the leadership of Günther, bishop of Bamberg. The number of pilgrims, all unarmed, is stated as some seven thousand in the least incredible source text. The leading ecclesiastics came from all over the northern half of the Empire, from Utrecht to Regensburg. A substantial contingent hailed from the province of Mainz, led by Archbishop Siegfried. Only some two thousand are said to have returned the following year. Our earliest source is the chronicle kept at Mainz by the Gaelic inclusus, Moelbrigte / Marianus Scottus (d. 1082/3), who had lived at Mainz since 1069 and was certainly writing his chronicle by 1073/4.

Dumville, David N., “Post-colonial Gildas: a first essay”, Quaestio Insularis 7 (2006): 1–21.
Dumville, David N., “Mael Brigte mac Tornáin, pluralist coarb (†927)”, Journal of Celtic Studies 4 (2004): 97–116.
Dumville, David N., “Félire Óengusso. Problems of dating a monument of Old Irish”, Éigse 33 (2002): 19–48.
Dumville, David N. [ed.], “Cethri prímchenéla Dáil Riata”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 20 (2000): 170–191.
Dumville, David N., “Ireland and Britain in Táin bó Fraích”, Études celtiques 32 (1996): 175–187.  
abstract:
[FR] Dùil Dromna Ceta et le Glossaire de Cormac
Le glossaire du Dùil Dromna Ceta révèle des étapes dans le développement des articles qui sont antérieures aux articles tels qu’ils se trouvent dans le glossaire de Cormac. C’est donc un témoin privilégié pour éclairer l’élaboration de ce dernier glossaire.
[EN] The value of Dúil Dromma Ceta for the study of Cormac’s Glossary lies in the fact that it can reveals stages in the development of glossary entries which predates the forms of entries attested in Cormac itself. DDC therefore is a valuable witness to the developement of Cormac’s Glossary.
Persée – Études Celtiques, vol. 32, 1996: <link>
abstract:
[FR] Dùil Dromna Ceta et le Glossaire de Cormac
Le glossaire du Dùil Dromna Ceta révèle des étapes dans le développement des articles qui sont antérieures aux articles tels qu’ils se trouvent dans le glossaire de Cormac. C’est donc un témoin privilégié pour éclairer l’élaboration de ce dernier glossaire.
[EN] The value of Dúil Dromma Ceta for the study of Cormac’s Glossary lies in the fact that it can reveals stages in the development of glossary entries which predates the forms of entries attested in Cormac itself. DDC therefore is a valuable witness to the developement of Cormac’s Glossary.
Dumville, David N., “Cath Fedo Euin”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 17 (1996): 114–127.
Dumville, David N., “ [Review of: Smyth, Alfred P., King Alfred the Great, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.]”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 31 (1996): 90–93.
Dumville, David N., “Two troublesome abbots”, Celtica 21 (1990): 146–152.
Dumville, David N., “Two approaches to the dating of Navigatio sancti Brendani”, Studi medievali 29 (1988): 95–99.
Dumville, David N., “The historical value of the Historia Brittonum”, Arthurian Literature 6 (1986): 1–26.
Dumville, David N., “The West Saxon genealogical regnal list and the chronology of early Wessex”, Peritia 4 (1985): 21–66.
Dumville, David N., “Late-seventh- or eighth-century evidence of the British transmission of Pelagius”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 10 (Winter, 1985): 39–52.
Dumville, David N., “An early text of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae and the circulation of some Latin histories in twelfth-century Normandy”, Arthurian Literature 4 (1985): 1–36.
Dumville, David N., “Language, literature, and law in medieval Ireland: some questions of transmission”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 9 (Summer, 1985): 91–98.
Dumville, David N., “On editing and translating medieval Irish chronicles: the Annals of Ulster”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 10 (Winter, 1985): 67–86.
Dumville, David N., “Ystyriaethau palaeograffyddol wrth ddyddio barddoniaeth Gymraeg gynnar”, Ysgrifau beirniadol 13 (1985): 17–25.
Dumville, David N., “On the dating of the early Breton lawcodes”, Études Celtiques 21 (1984): 207–221.  
abstract:
Examen des critères permettant de déterminer l'origine et la date des Excerpta de Libris Romanorum et Francorum, texte de loi séculier breton. L’origine semble bien être armoricaine, comme le propose L. Fleuriot. Mais la date est difficile à préciser : les emprunts à la Lex Salica, définis par Ludwig Bieler, ne permettent pas une datation précise. Quant aux passages parallèles avec la Collectio Canonum Hibernensis, il est difficile de préciser le sens de l’emprunt (l’emprunt semble avoir été plutôt le fait de l’auteur des Excerpta). Il serait donc prudent de renoncer à la date 520 x 560 proposée par L. Fleuriot et de ranger provisoirement les Excerpta dans le VIIIe siècle.
Persée – Études Celtiques, vol. 21, 1984: <link>
abstract:
Examen des critères permettant de déterminer l'origine et la date des Excerpta de Libris Romanorum et Francorum, texte de loi séculier breton. L’origine semble bien être armoricaine, comme le propose L. Fleuriot. Mais la date est difficile à préciser : les emprunts à la Lex Salica, définis par Ludwig Bieler, ne permettent pas une datation précise. Quant aux passages parallèles avec la Collectio Canonum Hibernensis, il est difficile de préciser le sens de l’emprunt (l’emprunt semble avoir été plutôt le fait de l’auteur des Excerpta). Il serait donc prudent de renoncer à la date 520 x 560 proposée par L. Fleuriot et de ranger provisoirement les Excerpta dans le VIIIe siècle.
Dumville, David N., “Brittany and ‘Armes Prydein Vawr’”, Études Celtiques 20 (1983): 145–159.  
abstract:
Réévaluation des conditions historiques où fut écrit le poème gallois Armes Prydein Vawr (une prophétie politique appelant les Bretons à s’unir contre les Anglo-Saxons) . Ce poème daterait du milieu du Xe siècle. L’ intervention des bretons armoricains dans la «coalition celtique » évoquée par l’auteur du poème est surprenante, car les Bretons étaient alliés aux rois Anglo-saxons dans la première moitié du Xe s . ; mais cela se comprend si l’on admet que le poème évoque des mythes plutôt que des réalités. Le mythe de l’union des bretons armoricains et insulaires est un thème symbolisé par les rois Conan et Cadwaladr, deux chefs, armoricain et gallois, qui doivent réunifier les bretons. Leurs noms ont dû être associés par la tradition littéraire bien avant Armes Prydein Vawr.
Persée – Études Celtiques, vol. 20, 1983: <link>
abstract:
Réévaluation des conditions historiques où fut écrit le poème gallois Armes Prydein Vawr (une prophétie politique appelant les Bretons à s’unir contre les Anglo-Saxons) . Ce poème daterait du milieu du Xe siècle. L’ intervention des bretons armoricains dans la «coalition celtique » évoquée par l’auteur du poème est surprenante, car les Bretons étaient alliés aux rois Anglo-saxons dans la première moitié du Xe s . ; mais cela se comprend si l’on admet que le poème évoque des mythes plutôt que des réalités. Le mythe de l’union des bretons armoricains et insulaires est un thème symbolisé par les rois Conan et Cadwaladr, deux chefs, armoricain et gallois, qui doivent réunifier les bretons. Leurs noms ont dû être associés par la tradition littéraire bien avant Armes Prydein Vawr.
Dumville, David N., “Motes and beams: two Insular computistical manuscripts”, Peritia 2 (1983): 248–256.
Dumville, David, “Ekiurid’s Celtic lingua: an ethnological difficulty in Waltharius”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 6 (Winter, 1983): 87–93.
Dumville, David N., “Some aspects of annalistic writing at Canterbury in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries”, Peritia 2 (1983): 23–57.
Dumville, David N., “The ‘six’ sons of Rhodri Mawr: a problem in Asser’s Life of King Alfred”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 4 (Winter, 1982): 5–18.  
Reprinted in 1993, essay XV.
Reprinted in 1993, essay XV.
Dumville, David N., “‘Beowulf’ and the Celtic world: the uses of evidence”, Traditio 37 (1981): 109–160.  
Reprinted in 1993: essay IV.
Reprinted in 1993: essay IV.
Dumville, David N., “The sixteenth-century history of two Cambridge books from Sawley”, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 7:4 (1980): 427–444.
Dumville, David N., “The ætheling: a study in Anglo-Saxon constitutional history”, Anglo-Saxon England 8 (1979): 1–33.
Dumville, David N., “The Welsh Latin annals”, Studia Celtica 12–13 (1977–1978): 461–467.
Dumville, David N., “Towards an interpretation of Fís Adomnáin”, Studia Celtica 12–13 (1977–1978): 62–77.
Dumville, David N., “On the north British section of the Historia Brittonum”, Welsh History Review 8:3 (June 1977, 1976–1977): 345–354.
Dumville, David N., “Celtic-Latin texts in northern England, c. 1150–c. 1250”, Celtica 12 (1977): 19–49.
Dumville, David N., “Sub-Roman Britain: history and legend”, History, new series, 62 (1977): 173–192.  
Dumville, David N., “The textual history of Lebor Bretnach: a preliminary study”, Éigse 16:4 (Geimhreadh 1976, 1975–1976): 255–273.
Dumville, David N., “Scéla lái brátha and the collation of Leabhar na hUidhre”, Éigse 16:1 (Samhradh 1975, 1975–1976): 24–28.
Dumville, David N., “The Anglian collection of royal genealogies and regnal lists”, Anglo-Saxon England 5 (1976): 23–50.  
Reprinted with revisions in 1990, essay V.
– Cambridge Journals: <link>
Reprinted with revisions in 1990, essay V.
Dumville, David N., “‘Nennius’ and the Historia Brittonum”, Studia Celtica 10–11 (1975–1976): 78–95.
Dumville, David N., “Echtrae and immram: some problems of definition”, Ériu 27 (1976): 73–94.
Dumville, David N., “The Liber Floridus of Lambert of Saint-Omer and the Historia Brittonum”, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 26 (1975, 1974–1976): 103–122.
Dumville, David N., “A paraphrase of the Historia Brittonum: two fragments”, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 25 (1972–1974): 101–105.
Dumville, David N., “The Corpus Christi ‘Nennius’”, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 25 (1972–1974): 369–380.
Dumville, David N., “Some aspects of the chronology of the Historia Brittonum”, Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 25 (May 1974, 1972–1974): 439–445.  
Reprinted in 1990: essay IV.
Reprinted in 1990: essay IV.
Dumville, David N., “A new chronicle-fragment of early British history”, The English Historical Review 88 (1973): 312–314.  
Reprinted with addenda as essay VI in Histories and pseudo-histories of the insular Middle Ages (1990).
JSTOR: <link> Oxfordjournals.org: <link>
Reprinted with addenda as essay VI in Histories and pseudo-histories of the insular Middle Ages (1990).
Dumville, David N., “Biblical apocrypha and the early Irish: a preliminary investigation”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 73 C (1973): 299–338.
Dumville, David N., “Liturgical drama and panegyric responsory from the eighth century? A re-examination of the origin and contents of the ninth-century section of the Book of Cerne”, The Journal of Theological Studies NS 23 (October, 1972): 374–400.

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

Dumville, David N., “Political organisation in Dál Riata”, in: Fiona Edmonds, and Paul Russell (eds), Tome: studies in medieval Celtic history and law in honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards, 31, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2011. 41–52.
Dumville, David N., “Vikings in Insular chronicling”, in: Stefan Brink, and Neil Price (eds), The Viking world, London and New York: Routledge, 2008. 350–367.
Dumville, David N., “Charters from ‘The Book of Kells’ transcribed for James Ussher”, in: David N. Dumville, Celtic essays, 2001–2007, 2 vols, vol. 1, Aberdeen: Centre for Celtic Studies, University of Aberdeen, 2007. 233–256.
Dumville, David N., “English script in the second half of the ninth century”, in: Katherine OʼBrien OʼKeeffe, and Andy Orchard (eds), Latin learning and English lore: studies in Anglo-Saxon literature for Michael Lapidge, 2 vols, vol. 1, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 305–325.
Dumville, David N., “The colophon of ‘The Penitential of Uinniau’”, in: Louis Lemoine, and Bernard Merdrignac (eds), Corona monastica: moines bretons de Landévennec. Histoire et mémoire celtiques. Mélanges offerts au père Marc Simon, Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2004. 167–178.
Dumville, David N., “Ireland and North Britain in the earlier Middle Ages: contexts for Míniugud senchusa fher nAlban”, in: Colm Ó Baoill, and Nancy R. McGuire (eds), Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2000, Aberdeen: An Clò Gaidhealach, 2002. 185–212.
Dumville, David N., “St Cathróe of Metz and the hagiography of exoticism”, in: John Carey, Máire Herbert, and Pádraig Ó Riain (eds), Studies in Irish hagiography: saints and scholars, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. 172–188.
Dumville, David N., “The chronicle of the kings of Alba”, in: Simon Taylor (ed.), Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland, 500–1297: essays in honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. 73–86.
Dumville, David N., “Finnian of Movilla: Briton, Gael, ghost?”, in: Lindsay Proudfoot (ed.), Down, history & society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county, 10, Dublin: Geography Publications, 1997. 71–84.
Dumville, David N., “St. Patrick in Cornwall? The origin and transmission of Vita tertia S. Patricii”, in: Kathryn A. Klar, Eve E. Sweetser, and Claire Thomas (eds), A Celtic florilegium: studies in memory of Brendan O Hehir, 2, Lawrence, Massachusetts: Celtic Studies Publications, 1996. 1–7.
Dumville, David N., “Breton and English manuscripts of Amalarius’s Liber officialis”, in: Danièle Conso, Nicole Fick, and Bruno Poulle (eds), Mélanges François Kerlouégan, 515, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1994. 205–214.
Dumville, David N., “Historia Brittonum: an insular history from the Carolingian age”, in: Anton Scharer, and Georg Scheibelreiter [eds.], Historiographie im frühen Mittelalter, 32, Vienna: Oldenbourg, 1994. 406–434.
Dumville, David N., “Bishop Palladius’s computus?”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 85–88.
Dumville, David N., “St Patrick and the christianisation of Dál Riata”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 183–189.
Dumville, David N., “Picti apostatae(que)”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 129–131.
Dumville, David N., “Bibliography”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 289–316.
Dumville, David N., “Patrick Senior and Junior”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 59–64.
Dumville, David N., “The dating of the Tripartite Life of St Patrick”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 255–258.
Dumville, David N., “The floruit of St Patrick — common and less common ground”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 13–18.
Dumville, David N., “The form of St Patrick's Confessio in the ‘Book of Armagh’”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 191–202.
Dumville, David N., “Emain Macha, Ard Macha”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 147–152.
Dumville, David N., “Acta Palladii preserved in Patrician hagiography?”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 65–84.
Dumville, David N., “St Patrick and the Scandinavians of Dublin”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 259–264.
Dumville, David N., “St Patrick’s missing years”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 25–28.
Dumville, David N., “Muirchú's life of St Patrick from the ‘Book of Armagh’”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 203–219.
Dumville, David N., “British missionary activity in Ireland”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 133–145.
Dumville, David N., “Auxilius, Iserninus, Secundinus, and Benignus”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 89–105.
Dumville, David N., “William of Malmesbury’s Vita S. Patricii and his source: two lost lives of St Patrick?”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 265–271.
Dumville, David N., “The death-date of St Patrick”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 29–33.
Dumville, David N., “St Patrick in the Historia Brittonum: three texts”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 221–232.
Dumville, David N., “Church-government and the spread of Christianity in Ireland”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 179–181.
Dumville, David N., “Coroticus”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 107–115.
Dumville, David N., “The Armagh list of ‘coarbs of St Patrick’”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 273–278.
Dumville, David N., “The date 432”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 39–43.
Dumville, David N., “St Patrick in an Anglo-Saxon martyrology”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 243–244.
Dumville, David N., “St Patrick at his ‘first synod’?”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 175–178.
Dumville, David N., “Verba militibus mittenda Corotici: an analysis of St Patrick’s tract on the crimes of Coroticus”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 117–127.
Dumville, David N., “St Patrick, the Annales Cambriae, and St David”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 279–288.
Dumville, David N., “St Patrick and fifth-century Irish chronology: the kings”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 45–57.
Dumville, David N., “The afterlife of Liber angeli”, in: David N. Dumville, and Lesley Abrams (eds), Saint Patrick, AD 493–1993, 13, Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993. 253–254.
Dumville, David N., “I: Sub-Roman Britain: history and legend”, in: David N. Dumville, Histories and pseudo-histories of the insular Middle Ages, 316, Aldershot: Variorum, 1990. 173–192.
Dumville, David N., “II: On the north British section of the Historia Brittonum”, in: David N. Dumville, Histories and pseudo-histories of the insular Middle Ages, 316, Aldershot: Variorum, 1990. 345–354.
Dumville, David N., “III: The Welsh Latin annals”, in: David N. Dumville, Histories and pseudo-histories of the insular Middle Ages, 316, Aldershot: Variorum, 1990. 461–467.
Dumville, David N., “XIV: An early text of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae and the circulation of some Latin histories in twelfth-century Normandy”, in: David N. Dumville, Histories and pseudo-histories of the insular Middle Ages, 316, Aldershot: Variorum, 1990. 1–36. Reprint.
Dumville, David N., “The origins of Northumbria: some aspects of the British background”, in: Steven Bassett (ed.), The origins of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1989. 213–222, 284–286.
Dumville, David N., “The Tribal Hidage: an introduction to its texts and their history”, in: Steven Bassett (ed.), The origins of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1989. 225–230, 286–287.
Dumville, David N., “Essex, Middle Anglia, and the expansion of Mercia in the south-east Midlands”, in: Steven Bassett (ed.), The origins of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1989. 123–140.
Dumville, David N., “Early Welsh poetry: problems of historicity”, in: Brynley F. Roberts (ed.), Early Welsh poetry: studies in the Book of Aneirin, Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1988. 1–16.
Dumville, David N., “Some British aspects of the earliest Irish Christianity”, in: Próinséas Ní Chatháin, and Michael Richter (eds), Irland und Europa: die Kirche im Frühmittelalter / Ireland and Europe: the early church, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1984. 16–24.
Dumville, David N., “The chronology of De excidio Britanniae, Book I”, in: Michael Lapidge, and David N. Dumville (eds), Gildas: new approaches, 5, Cambridge: Boydell Press, 1984. 61–84.
Dumville, David N., “Gildas and Maelgwn: problems of dating”, in: Michael Lapidge, and David N. Dumville (eds), Gildas: new approaches, 5, Cambridge: Boydell Press, 1984. 51–59.
Dumville, David N., “Gildas and Uinniau”, in: Michael Lapidge, and David N. Dumville (eds), Gildas: new approaches, 5, Cambridge: Boydell Press, 1984. 207–214.
Whitelock, Dorothy, Rosamond McKitterick, and David N. Dumville, “Kathleen Winifred Hughes 1926–1977”, in: Dorothy Whitelock, Rosamund McKitterick, and David N. Dumville (eds), Ireland in early medieval Europe: studies in memory of Kathleen Hughes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 1–18.
Dumville, David N., “Latin and Irish in the Annals of Ulster, A.D. 431–1050”, in: Dorothy Whitelock, Rosamund McKitterick, and David N. Dumville (eds), Ireland in early medieval Europe: studies in memory of Kathleen Hughes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 320–341.  
Reprinted in 1990, essay XVII.
Reprinted in 1990, essay XVII.
Dumville, David N., “Kingship, genealogies and regnal lists”, in: Peter H. Sawyer, and Ian N. Wood [eds.], Early medieval kingship, Leeds: School of History, University of Leeds, 1977. 72–104.  
Reprinted in 1990: essay XV.
Reprinted in 1990: essay XV.

External links

Professor David Dumville, University of Aberdeen.
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