Marjorie McCallum Chibnall was an English historian, medievalist and Latin translator.
10 Facts About Marjorie Chibnall
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Marjorie Chibnall edited the Historia Ecclesiastica by Orderic Vitalis, with whom she shared the same birthplace of Atcham in Shropshire.
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Marjorie Chibnall died in Sheffield on 23 June 2012, at the age of 96.
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Marjorie Chibnall took her BLitt at the University of Cambridge on the subject of ecclesiastical law, before moving on for her doctorate to a study of the relations between the mighty Bec Abbey in Normandy and its dependent English priories.
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Marjorie Chibnall completed her doctorate in 1939 under the supervision of the economic historian Eileen Power.
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Marjorie Chibnall was from 1947 a lecturer in history at Girton College, Cambridge, and from 1953 a fellow of the college, but she relinquished her positions there in 1965 in order to complete her editorial work on the Historia Ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis.
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Marjorie Chibnall encouraged much scholarship on these topics, as an active participant at the Battle Conferences on Anglo-Norman history and an editor of their proceedings.
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Marjorie Chibnall continued to publish when she was well into her nineties.
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Marjorie Chibnall edited five volumes of Anglo-Norman Studies, the proceedings of the annual Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies.
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Marjorie Chibnall was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1978.