Margaret Gibson (historian)

Margaret Templeton Gibson (25 January 1938 – 2 August 1994) was a British historian and academic, who specialised in early medieval history, biblical exegesis, and medieval philosophy. Having studied at the University of St Andrews and the University of Oxford, she then spent her entire teaching career at the University of Liverpool (1966–1991): at the height of her career, she was Reader in Medieval History and Director of the Liverpool Centre for Medieval Studies. In retirement and through illness, she was a senior research fellow at St Peter's College, Oxford until her death in 1994 from cancer.[1][2]

Selected works[edit]

  • Gibson, Margaret (1978). Lanfranc of Bec. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Gibson, Margaret (1981). Boethius: His Life, Thought and Influence. Oxford: Wiley–Blackwell.
  • Gibson, Margaret T. (1993). Bible in the Latin West. Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press.
  • Gibson, Margaret T.; Pfaff, Richard William; Heslop, T. A., eds. (1992). The Eadwine psalter: text, image, and monastic culture in twelfth-century Canterbury. London: Modern Humanities Research Association. ISBN 9780947623463.
  • Gibson, Margaret T. (1994). The Liverpool ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery. London: HMSO. ISBN 9780112905332.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Harvey, Margaret (12 August 1994). "Obituary: Margaret Gibson". The Independent. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  2. ^ Colish, Marcia L.; Meyvaert, Paul; Matter, E. Ann (1995). "Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America: Margaret Templeton Gibson". Speculum. 70 (3): 734–735. ISSN 0038-7134. Retrieved 28 January 2021.