Peter Darby

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Biography

I joined the Department of History at the University of Nottingham in September 2013 having previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leicester (2010-2013).

Research

My work on the eschatological thought of the Northumbrian monk and scholar Bede (c.673-735) has generated a monograph Bede and the end of time (Ashgate, 2013) and a volume of essays (co-edited with Faith Wallis) on the theme Bede and the future (Ashgate, 2014). I am currently completing a book on letter writing in early medieval Northumbria and editing a collection of essays called Bede the Scholar for Manchester University Press.

I am also very interested in the manuscripts produced at Bede's monastery in his lifetime, especially the Codex Amiatinus, an illuminated single-volume Bible which was completed before the year 716. This important manuscript is the earliest complete extant witness to Jerome's Vulgate translation of the Scriptures into Latin. A series of recent studies have examined some of the images preserved in the Codex Amiatinus in light of key works of exegesis by the Church Fathers (see 'publications' tab for full details).

I have organised conference sessions on the Age of Bede at the annual International Medieval Congress in Leeds since 2011. With colleagues at Nottingham, I have co-founded a Medieval Heresy and Dissent Research Network, and I am also a member of the editorial board of the Brepols book series Medieval Church Studies.

Teaching

I undertake a variety of teaching responsibilities for the department. I convene a module which explores the history of Apocalyptic thought from the biblical era to the present day, and I also run courses which examine early-medieval Britain during the period of its conversion to Christianity.

At postgraduate level I contribute to team taught modules for the MA Programme in History. I would welcome enquiries about doctoral research supervision.

Selected Publications

• PETER DARBY, 2020. Heresy and authority in Bede’s Letter to Plegwine. In: DEGREGORIO, S and KERSHAW, P, eds., Cities, Saints and Communities in Early Medieval Europe Brepols. 145-70
• PETER DARBY, 2020. The presentation of Jerome's first letter to Paulinus of Nola in the Codex Amiatinus Pentateuch diagram Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland. 30, 59-87
• PETER DARBY, 2017. The Codex Amiatinus Maiestas Domini and the Gospel prefaces of Jerome Speculum. 92(2), 343-71
• DARBY, PETER and WALLIS, FAITH, eds., 2014. Bede and the Future Ashgate.

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• PETER DARBY and MÁIRÍN MACCARRON, eds., 2023. Bede the Scholar Manchester University Press. (In Press.)
• PETER DARBY and MÁIRÍN MACCARRON, 2023. The autobiographical statement of Bede the Scholar in Ecclesiastical History 5:24. In: PETER DARBY and MÁIRÍN MACCARRON, eds., Bede the Scholar Manchester University Press. (In Press.)
• PETER DARBY, 2022. The interpenetration of image and text in the collected studies of Jennifer O’Reilly Nottingham Medieval Studies. 64, (In Press.)
• PETER DARBY, 2020. Heresy and authority in Bede’s Letter to Plegwine. In: DEGREGORIO, S and KERSHAW, P, eds., Cities, Saints and Communities in Early Medieval Europe Brepols. 145-70
• PETER DARBY, 2020. The presentation of Jerome's first letter to Paulinus of Nola in the Codex Amiatinus Pentateuch diagram Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland. 30, 59-87
• PETER DARBY, ROB LUTTON and CLAIRE TAYLOR, eds., 2019. Nottingham Medieval Studies 63: Special Issue - Heretical Self-Defence in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Brepols.
• PETER DARBY, ROB LUTTON and CLAIRE TAYLOR, 2019. Introduction: Heretical Self-Defence in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. In: PETER DARBY, ROB LUTTON and CLAIRE TAYLOR, eds., Nottingham Medieval Studies 63: Special Issue: Heretical self-defence in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 63. Brepols. 1-21
• PETER DARBY, 2018. Apocalypse and reform in Bede's De die iudicii. In: GABRIELE, M and PALMER, J, eds., Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages Routledge. 77-100
• PETER DARBY, 2017. The Codex Amiatinus Maiestas Domini and the Gospel prefaces of Jerome Speculum. 92(2), 343-71
• PETER DARBY, 2017. Sacred geometry and the five books of the Codex Amiatinus Maiestas Domini. In: NEWMAN, C, MANNION, M and GAVIN, F, eds., Islands in a Global Context Four Courts Press. 34-40
• PETER DARBY, 2017. Beda (ca. 673–735). In: HEMPELMANN, H., SWARAT, U., GEBAUER, R., HEINRICHS, W., RAEDEL, C. and ZIMMERLING, P., eds., Evangelische Lexikon für Theologie und Gemeinde SCM R.Brockhaus.
• DARBY, PETER and WALLIS, FAITH, eds., 2014. Bede and the Future Ashgate.
• DARBY, PETER, 2014. Bede's History of the Future. In: DARBY, PETER and WALLIS, FAITH, eds., Bede and the Future Ashgate. 115-138
• DARBY, PETER and WALLIS, FAITH, 2014. Introduction: the many futures of Bede. In: DARBY, PETER and WALLIS, FAITH, eds., Bede and the Future Ashgate. 1-21
• DARBY, PETER and REYNOLDS, DANIEL, 2014. Reassessing the ‘Jerusalem Pilgrims‛: the Case of Bede‛s De locis sanctis Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant. 9, 27-31
• DARBY, P, 2013. Bede's time shift of 703 in context. In: WIESER, V, ZOLLES, C, FEIK, C, ZOLLES, M and SCHLÖNDORFF, L, eds., Abendländische Apokalyptik. Kompendium zur Genealogie der Endzeit Akademie Verlag. 619-640
• DARBY, P., 2013. Bede, iconoclasm and the Temple of Solomon Early Medieval Europe. 21(4), 390-421
• DARBY, P., 2012. Bede and the end of time Ashgate.