David Levesley d'AVRAY
- Date of Birth:
3 February 1952
- Education & Awards:
1966-69 St. Benedict's School, Ealing
1970-73 St. John's College Cambridge
1973-76 Balliol College Oxford
1974-76 Balliol postgraduate scholarships
1976-77 Institut f. lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters, Munich University
1983-84 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Institut Lateinische Philologie d. Mittelalters, Munich
1996-98 British Academy Research Reader
1999 Distinguished Teacher Award for the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences, University College London
- Academic Posts:
1977-93 Lecturer in History, University College London
1993-1996 Reader in Medieval History, University College London
1996-present Professor of History, University College, London
1997 ÂÂDirecteur dÂÂEtudes invitéÂÂ, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
- Editorial:
1996-2004 Editorial Board, Reviews in History
2003-present General Editor, Oxford Medieval Texts
2003-present Editorial Advisory Board, German History
British Academy Committees: Episcopal Acta, Auctores Britannici
- Learned bodies:
1991 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
2005 Fellow of the British Academy
- Activities in 2010:
British Academy: Section Standing Committee for Medieval Studies
Anselm Lecture, University of Kent
Congrès Internationale des Sciences Historiques: Organised and provided discussion paper for the Pontificio Comitato's Table Ronde on History and Ethics.
Books
- The Preaching of the Friars: sermons diffused from Paris before 1350 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1985).
- Death and the Prince. Memorial Preaching before 1350 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994).
- Medieval Marriage Sermons. Mass Communication in a Culture without Print. (OUP 2001).
- Medieval Marriage: symbolism and society. (OUP 2005, paperback edn. 2008).
- Medieval Religious Rationalities: a Weberian Analysis (Cambridge, 2010).
- Rationalities in History: a Weberian Essay in Comparison (Cambridge, 2010).
Also many papers in learned journals and volumes edited by others, some collected in Modern Questions about Medieval Sermons: Essays on Marriage, Death, History & Sanctity by Nicole Bériou and David dÂÂAvray, with P. Cole, J. Rile-Smith, M.Tausche (Biblioteca di ÂÂMedievo LatinoÂÂ, Collana della ÂÂSocietà Internazionale per lo Studio del Medieovo LatinoÂÂ, 11; Centro Italiano Studi SullÂÂ Alto Medioevo, Spoleto, 1994).