Dr John Davies
- Research Fellow: Associate Director of Arts Lab (Arts & Humanities Senior Management)
- Affiliated Researcher in School of Humanities (School of Humanities)
telephone:
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John.R.Davies@glasgow.ac.uk
Room 421, Sir Alexander Stone Building, University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4019Biography
Since June 2021, John Davies has been Associate Director of Arts Lab, with responsibility for Labs and Themes, and is lead for cross-college research collaborations in the College of Arts.
John read Theology at Durham University, where he focused on Church History and Liturgy. After gaining his PhD from the University of Cambridge, he held a research post at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. In 2004 he joined the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. He became part of the History team at the University of Glasgow in 2008. His main interests include the ecclesiastical history of Britain in the middle ages, with a special interest in ecclesiastical organisation, the cult of saints, hagiography, and liturgy. His most recent work has been on the diplomatic and palaeography of medieval charters; monastic chronicles; the study of liturgy (liturgical theology as well as liturgical history); and medieval Scottish Law. His most recent book is the first modern critical edition of Regiam Maiestatem, the single most important text of medieval Scots law, presenting royal authority in the early fourteenth century and describing jurisdiction, law and procedure in the king’s courts; published in the Stair Society's series in 2022, with a substantial introduction by Professor Alice Taylor.
In addition to scholarship relating to the Insular middle ages, John also works on cross-cultural comparative history with historians in India, exploring early medieval records of property-transfer. John's interest in Indian history, and close working partnership with the University of Calcutta, has led to further ventures, concerned with Indian cultural heritage, and he has organised several workshops in Kolkata on the historical cultural heritage of Bengal as well as the lived heritage of minority and diaspora communities. The main output of the most recent collaborative project with colleagues in Kolkata is The Making of Goddess Durga: Art, Heritage and the Public (edited by S. K. Das & B. Basak, Springer 2021), which highlights the challenges of heritage facing the community of Kumbhakars (religious sculptors) in Kumartuli and wider Bengal, opening up cross-disciplinary conversations and situating itself at the interface between art history, the sociology of aesthetics, politics and government, social history, cultural studies, social anthropology and archaeology. With Ophira Gamliel (Theology and Religious Studies), John is currently leading a project collaborating with international visual and performing artists, 'Re-imaging Kochi’s Jewish Life: Visualising an Erased Heritage'.
John was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2016.
Since 2012 John has been editor of The Innes Review: The Journal of Scottish Catholic History and sits on the council of the Scottish Catholic Historical Association. From 2015 to 2019 he served on the council of the Scottish History Society (the leading publisher of original sources relating to the history of Scotland).
Outside the University, John has been a member of the Liturgy Committee of the Scottish Episcopal Church since 2009 (as Convener 2015 to 2020), and the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation since 2017 (as a member of the Steering Committee since 2024). He was a member of the Joint Liturgical Group of Great Britain 2015 to 2020, and sat on the Faith and Order Board of the Scottish Episcopal Church 2015 to 2020.
Research interests
Research interests:
- Ecclesiastical history of Great Britain in the middle ages
- Medieval Charters
- Medieval Chronicles
- The Lives of the Saints
- Medieval Prosopography
- Digital Humanities
- History of Medieval Wales
- History of Medieval Scotland
- Scottish Wars of Independence
- History of Liturgy
- Liturgical Theology
- Global Middle Ages
- Comparative History
- Heritage
- Medieval Scottish Law
Publications
2024
Davies, J. R. (2024) Kitsch in religion: identifying the kitsch aesthetic in liturgy. In: Szostak, Michał (ed.) Non-Artistic Kitsch. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 237-246. ISBN 9783031722363 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-72237-0_12)
Gamliel, O. , Davies, J. , Eliyahu, M., Sateesh, R., Aravind, S., Bhaskar, A., Sasidharan, S. U. and E.V., F. (2024) Kappalile (In the Boat). [Film]
2022
Davies, J. R. (2022) Liturgy and the Buried Giant. In: Nichols, Bridget and Taylor, Nicholas (eds.) The End of the Church? Conversations with the Work of David Jasper. Sacristy Press: Durham, pp. 227-242. ISBN 9781789592528
Davies, J. R. and Taylor, A. (2022) Regiam Majestatem: The Earliest Known Version. Series: The Stair Society, 68. The Stair Society: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781872517353
Davies, J. R. (2022) Dan D. Cruickshank, The Theology and Ecclesiology of the Prayer Book Crisis, 1906–1928, Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Pivot, 2019). ISBN 978-3-030-27129-9 hardback; 978-3-030-27130-5 eBook. Pp. ix + 127. £54.99 (hardback); £43.99 (eBook). Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 6(2), pp. 48-50. [Book Review]
Davies, J. R. and Taylor, N. (2022) Sacraments and ministry in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 6(1), pp. 69-80.
2021
Davies, J. , Taylor, A., Caton, P., Ginestra, F., Geoffroy, N., Miguel, V. and Broun, D. (2021) A model of a dynamic edition of Regiam Maiestatem. [Website]
Davies, J. (2021) Review of R. Andrew McDonald, The Sea Kings: The Late Norse Kingdoms of Man and the Isles, c. 1066–1275. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 41(2), pp. 203-205. (doi: 10.3366/jshs.2021.0334)[Book Review]
Davies, J. R. (2021) Review of The History of Scottish Theology, Volume I: Celtic Origins to Reformed Orthodoxy, edited by David Fergusson and Mark W. Elliott. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 5(2), pp. 121-124. [Book Review]
Davies, J. R. (2021) Durga Puja in Glasgow. In: Das, Samir Kumar and Basak, Bishnupriya (eds.) The Making of Goddess Durga in Bengal: Art, Heritage and the Public. Springer Nature: Singapore, pp. 61-81. ISBN 9789811602627 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-0263-4_3)
Davies, J. (2021) Human being and the praise of God. In: Jasper, David and Fuller, Michael (eds.) Made in the Image of God: Being Human in the Christian Tradition. Sacristy Press: Durham, pp. 31-55. ISBN 9781789591705
Davies, J. (2021) Professor Richard Sharpe FBA, FSA, FRHistS, HonMRIA, 17 February 1954 to 21 March 2020. Innes Review,
2020
Davies, J. R. (2020) What is a Deacon? A liturgical perspective. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 4(4), pp. 15-22.
Davies, J. (2020) Review of Buchedd Beuno. The Middle Welsh Life of St Beuno. Edited, with a Short Grammar of Middle Welsh, by Patrick Sims-Williams. Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies(80), pp. 94-96. [Book Review]
Davies, J. R. (2020) Eucharist, church, and judgment: initial questions about the liturgical and ecclesiological implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 4(2), pp. 71-83.
Davies, J. (2020) The Church in Medieval Scotland: Aspects of a Roman Inheritance. Series: St Aidan's lectures. Scottish Episcopal Church, Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway: Glasgow. ISBN 9781872170190
Davies, J. R. and Broun, D. (2020) The manuscripts of the Declaration [of Arbroath]. [Research Reports or Papers]
2019
Davies, J. R. (2019) The 'Peace' in the liturgies of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 3(4), pp. 65-78.
Davies, J. R. and Taylor, N. (2019) Liturgical Revision in the Scottish Episcopal Church [Guest Curators]. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 3(4),
Davies, J. and Bhattacharya, S. (Eds.) (2019) Copper, Parchment, and Stone: Studies in the Sources for Landholding and Lordship in Early Medieval Bengal and Medieval Scotland. Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: Glasgow. ISBN 9780852619506
Davies, J. (2019) The development of the charter in Scotland. In: Davies, John Reuben and Bhattacharya, Swapna (eds.) Copper, Parchment, and Stone: Studies in the Sources for Landholding and Lordship in Early Medieval Bengal and Medieval Scotland. Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: Glasgow, pp. 69-97. ISBN 9780852619506
Davies, J. (2019) Foreword. In: Davies, John and Bhattacharya, Swapna (eds.) Copper, Parchment, and Stone: Studies in the Sources for Landholding and Lordship in Early Medieval Bengal and Medieval Scotland. Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: Glasgow, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9780852619575
Davies, J. (2019) The Church in Medieval Ceredigion. In: Jenkins, Geraint H., Suggett, Richard and White, Eryn Mant (eds.) Cardiganshire County History Volume 2: Medieval to Early Modern Cardiganshire. Series: The Cardiganshire county history (2). University of Wales Press, pp. 175-195. ISBN 9781786834522
Davies, J. (2019) Old Testament personal names in Scotland before the Wars of Independence. In: Hammond, Matthew (ed.) Personal Names and Naming Practices in Medieval Scotland. Series: Studies in Celtic History (39). Boydell & Brewer: Woodbridge, pp. 187-212. ISBN 9781783274284 (doi: 10.1017/9781787445505.008)
Davies, J. (2019) Liturgy as a repository of truth. In: Jasper, David and Wright, Jenny (eds.) Truth and the Church in a Secular Age. SCM Press: London, pp. 84-101. ISBN 9780334058168
Davies, J. (2019) Review of Celebrating Liturgical Time: Days, Weeks, and Seasons, by J. Neil Alexander. Anaphora, 12, pp. 204-208. [Book Review]
Das, S. K., Basak, B., Davies, J. R. and Guhathakurta, M. (2019) Heritage and the Mritshilpis and Pratimashilpis of Kumartuli: report on a consultative meeting held in Kolkata, West Bengal, 25 November 2018, with proposals for research. [Research Reports or Papers]
2018
Davies, J. R. (2018) Review of David W. Fagerberg. Liturgy Outside Liturgy: The Liturgical Theology of Fr. Alexander Schmemann. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 2(3), pp. 46-47. [Book Review]
Davies, J. and Spurlock, R. (Eds.) (2018) Records of the Scottish Church History Society Vol. XLVII. Series: Records of the Scottish Church History Society. Scottish Church History Society: Edinburgh, UK.
Davies, J. R. (2018) The Brothers Forbes and the liturgical books of medieval Scotland: Historical scholarship and liturgical controversy in the nineteenth-century Scottish Episcopal Church. Records of the Scottish Church History Society, 47(1), pp. 128-142. (doi: 10.3366/sch.2018.0008)
2017
Davies, J. (2017) Review of Lizette Larson-Miller, Sacramentality Renewed: Contemporary Conversations in Sacramental Theology. Anaphora, 11(2), pp. 82-84. [Book Review]
Davies, J. R. (2017) Preserving and promoting the historical cultural heritage of rural communities in West Bengal and Bangladesh: Report on a workshop held in Kolkata Saturday 29 April 2017. [Research Reports or Papers]
2016
Davies, J. R. (2016) Chasing models through Melrose, St Andrews and Holyrood. DigiPal VI: The Palaeography Awakens, London, UK, 05 Sep 2016. (Unpublished)
Davies, J. R. (2016) Phillip Tovey. Of Water and the Spirit: Mission and the Baptismal Liturgy. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2015. viii + 151 pp. £16.99 eBook & paperback. ISBN 9781848258037. Anaphora, 10(1), pp. 104-106. [Book Review]
Stokes, P., Brookes, S., Noel, G., Davies, J. , Webber, T., Broun, D. , Taylor, A. and Tucker, J. (2016) The Models of Authority Project: Extending the DigiPal Framework for Script and Decoration. In: Digital Humanities 2016, Kraków, Poland, 11-16 Jul 2016, pp. 896-899. ISBN 9788394276034
Davies, J. (2016) The standardisation of diplomatic in Scottish Royal Acts down to 1249. Part 2: letters with notification. Models of Authority, 29 Feb.
2015
Davies, J. (2015) The standardisation of diplomatic in Scottish Royal Acts down to 1249. Part 1: Brieves. Models of Authority, 23 Dec.
Brookes, S. J., Broun, D. , Davies, J. , Noel, G., Stokes, P., Taylor, A., Tucker, J. and Webber, T. (2015) Models of Authority: Scottish Charters and the Emergence of Government 1100 to 1250. [Website]
2013
Davies, J. R. (2013) The cult of saints in the early Welsh March: aspects of cultural transmission in a time of political conflict. In: Duffy, Seán and Foran, Susan (eds.) The English Isles: Cultural Transmission and Political Conflict in Britain and Ireland, 1100-1500. Four Courts Press: Dublin, pp. 37-55. ISBN 9781846822230
Davies, J. (2013) The execution of William Wallace: Saint Bartholomew’s Eve, Monday 23 August 1305. Breaking of Britain: Cross-Border Society and Scottish Independence 1216-1314,
Davies, J. R. (2013) Welshmen in the army of Edward 1 during the Scottish campaign of 1296. Breaking of Britain: Cross-Border Society and Scottish Independence 1216-1314,
2012
Davies, J.R. , Sharpe, R. and Taylor, S. (2012) Comforting sentences from the warming room at Inchcolm abbey. Innes Review, 63(2), pp. 260-266. (doi: 10.3366/inr.2012.0041)
Davies, J.R. (2012) Old Testament personal names among the Britons: their occurrence and significance before the twelfth century. Viator, 43(1), pp. 175-192.
Beam-Frazier, A., Bradley, J., Broun, D. , Davies, J. , Hammond, M. and Pasin, M. (2012) People of Medieval Scotland 1093–1314 Database [web resource]. [Research Reports or Papers]
2011
Davies, J.R. (2011) The texts of the Ragman Roll. Breaking of Britain 1216-1314,
Davies, J.R. (2011) The making of the Ragman Roll: the work of the notary. Breaking of Britain 1216-1314,
Davies, J. (2011) Review of Helen Birkett, The Saints’ Lives of Jocelin of Furness: Hagiography, Patronage and Ecclesiastical Politics. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 62(4), p. 810. (doi: 10.1017/S0022046911000947)[Book Review]
Davies, J. (2011) Cathedrals and the cult of saints in eleventh and twelfth century Wales. In: Dalton, P., Insley, C. and Wilkinson, L.J. (eds.) Cathedrals, Communities and Conflict in the Anglo-Norman World. Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion. Boydell Press: Woodbridge, pp. 99-115. ISBN 9781843836209
Davies, J.R. (2011) The execution of William Wallace: the earliest account. Breaking of Britain 1216-1314,
Davies, J. (2011) William Wallace: pretender to the crown of Scotland. History Scotland, 11(5),
2010
Davies, J. (2010) The donor and the duty of warrandice: giving and granting in Scottish charters. In: The Reality Behind Charter Diplomatic in the Anglo-Norman Era. University of Glasgow: Glasgow, UK, pp. 120-165. ISBN 9780852619193
Davies, J.R. (2010) The cult of Saint Constantine. Society of Friends of Govan Old: Glasgow. ISBN 9780954532185
Davies, J. (2010) King David deals with a controversial transaction: the language of giving and granting in the dispute over Edrom and Nisbet. Feature of the Month: The Paradox of Medieval Scotland 1093-1286, 12,
Davies, J. R. (2010) Celtic church. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
Davies, J. R. (2010) Clas churches. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
Davies, J. R. (2010) David (Dewi), St , patron saint of Wales. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
Davies, J. R. (2010) Hywel Dda (Hywel ‘the Good’), king of Wales. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
Davies, J. R. (2010) Llandaff, Book of. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
Davies, J. R. (2010) March of Wales. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
Davies, J. R. (2010) Scotland, Ireland, Wales: early Wales to 1064. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
Davies, J. R. (2010) Sulien. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
2009
Davies, J. (2009) 'Giving', 'Granting', and 'Confirming': the problem of dispositive verbs in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scottish charters: part III - implied warrandice in Scottish charters. Feature of the Month: The Paradox of Medieval Scotland 1093-1286, 5,
Davies, J. (2009) 'Giving', 'Granting', and 'Confirming': the problem of dispositive verbs in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scottish charters: Part II. Feature of the Month: The Paradox of Medieval Scotland 1093-1286, 4,
Davies, J. (2009) 'Giving', 'Granting', and 'Confirming': the problem of dispositive verbs in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scottish charters: Part I. Feature of the Month: The Paradox of Medieval Scotland 1093-1286, 2,
Boardman, S., Davies, J.R. and Williamson, E. (Eds.) (2009) Saints' Cults in the Celtic World. Series: Studies in Celtic history. Boydell Press: Woodbridge, UK. ISBN 9781843834328
Davies, J.R. (2009) Bishop Kentigern among the Britons. In: Boardman, S., Davies, J.R. and Williamson, E. (eds.) Saints' Cults in the Celtic World. Series: Studies in Celtic history (25). Boydell Press: Woodbridge, UK, pp. 67-99. ISBN 9781843834328
Davies, J.R. (2009) Wales and West Britain in the tenth and eleventh centuries. In: Stafford, P. (ed.) A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c.500-1100. Series: Blackwell companions to history. Wiley-Blackwell: Chichester, UK, pp. 342-357. ISBN 9781405106283
2008
Davies, J. (2008) Aspects of Church Reform in Wales, c. 1093–c. 1223. In: Lewis, C.P. (ed.) Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2007. Series: Anglo-Norman Studies (30). Boydell: Woodbridge, pp. 85-99. ISBN 9781843833796
Davies, J.R. (2008) The Augustinian and Premonstratensian canons. In: Davies, J. (ed.) Academi Encyclopedia of Wales. University of Wales: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9780708319543
Davies, J.R. (2008) The Benedictines. In: Davies, J. (ed.) Academi Encyclopedia of Wales. University of Wales: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9780708319543
Davies, J.R. (2008) Bernard (bishop of St Davids). In: Davies, J. (ed.) Academi Encyclopedia of Wales. University of Wales: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9780708319543
Davies, J.R. (2008) Herewald (bishop of Glamorgan). In: Davies, J. (ed.) Academi Encyclopedia of Wales. University of Wales: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9780708319543
Davies, J.R. (2008) St Samson of Dol. In: Davies, J. (ed.) Academi Encyclopedia of Wales. University of Wales: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9780708319543
Davies, J.R. (2008) Urban (bishop of Llandaf). In: Davies, J. (ed.) Academi Encyclopedia of Wales. University of Wales: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9780708319543
2007
Boardman, S., Williamson, E. and Davies, J. (2007) Database of Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland. [Website]
Davies, J.R. (2007) The Archbishopric St Davids and the bishops of Clas Cynidr. In: Evans, J.W. and Wooding, J.M. (eds.) St. David of Wales: Cult, Church, and Nation. Series: Studies in Celtic history (24). Boydell Press: Woodbridge, UK, pp. 296-304. ISBN 9781843833222
Davies, J.R. (2007) Some observations on the 'Nero', 'Digby', and 'Vespasian' recensions of Vita S. David. In: Evans, J.W. and Wooding, J.M. (eds.) St. David of Wales: Cult, Church, and Nation. Series: Studies in Celtic history (24). Boydell Press: Woodbridge, UK, pp. 156-160. ISBN 9781843833222
Davies, J. (2007) Review of Damian Bracken and Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel, Ireland and Europe in the Twelfth Century: Reform and Renewal. European Journal of Archaeology, 10(2), pp. 252-254. (doi: 10.1179/eja.2007.10.2-3.252)[Book Review]
Sharpe, R. and Davies, J.R. (2007) Rhygyfarch's Life of St David. In: Evans, J.W. and Wooding, J.M. (eds.) St. David of Wales: Cult, Church, and Nation. Series: Studies in Celtic history (24). Boydell Press: Woodbridge, UK, pp. 107-155. ISBN 9781843833222
2005
Davies, J.R. (2005) Ecclesiastical organisation. In: Duffy, S., MacShamhráin, A. and Moynes, J. (eds.) Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia. Series: The Routledge encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (10). Routledge: New York, USA. ISBN 9780415940528
2003
Davies, J.R. (2003) The Book of Llandaf and the Norman Church in Wales. Series: Studies in Celtic history (21). Boydell Press: Woodbridge, UK. ISBN 9781843830245
Davies, J.R. (2003) Church organization (Anglo-Saxon and Celtic). In: Loades, D.M. (ed.) Reader's Guide to British History. Fitzroy Dearborn: New York, USA. ISBN 9781579582425
Davies, J.R. (2003) Gerard of Wales. In: Loades, D.M. (ed.) Reader's Guide to British History. Fitzroy Dearborn: New York, USA. ISBN 9781579582425
Davies, J.R. (2003) Gruffudd ap Llywelyn. In: Loades, D.M. (ed.) Reader's Guide to British History. Fitzroy Dearborn: New York, USA. ISBN 9781579582425
Davies, J.R. (2003) Historia Brittonum. In: Loades, D.M. (ed.) Reader's Guide to British History. Fitzroy Dearborn: New York, USA. ISBN 9781579582425
Davies, J.R. (2003) Rhodri the Great and Hywel the Good. In: Loades, D.M. (ed.) Reader's Guide to British History. Fitzroy Dearborn: New York, USA. ISBN 9781579582425
Davies, J.R. (2003) Wales before union with England (early kingdoms). In: Loades, D.M. (ed.) Reader's Guide to British History. Fitzroy Dearborn: New York, USA. ISBN 9781579582425
2002
Davies, J.R. (2002) The saints of South Wales and the Welsh church. In: Thacker, A. and Sharpe, R. (eds.) Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 361-395. ISBN 9780198203940
Davies, J. R. (2002) The historical background to diocesan organisation and episcopal jurisdiction in south-east Wales. Theology Wales, 2002, pp. 85-90.
1999
Davies, J. (1999) The Book of Llandaf: a twelfth-century perspective. In: Harper-Bill, C. (ed.) Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1998. Series: Anglo-Norman Studies, 21. Boydell Press: Suffolk, UK. ISBN 9780851157450
1998
1997
Davies, J.R. (1997) Church, property, and conflict in Wales, AD 600–1100. Welsh History Review, 18(3), pp. 387-406.
Articles
Davies, J. R. and Taylor, N. (2022) Sacraments and ministry in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 6(1), pp. 69-80.
Davies, J. (2021) Professor Richard Sharpe FBA, FSA, FRHistS, HonMRIA, 17 February 1954 to 21 March 2020. Innes Review,
Davies, J. R. (2020) What is a Deacon? A liturgical perspective. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 4(4), pp. 15-22.
Davies, J. R. (2020) Eucharist, church, and judgment: initial questions about the liturgical and ecclesiological implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 4(2), pp. 71-83.
Davies, J. R. (2019) The 'Peace' in the liturgies of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 3(4), pp. 65-78.
Davies, J. R. and Taylor, N. (2019) Liturgical Revision in the Scottish Episcopal Church [Guest Curators]. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 3(4),
Davies, J. R. (2018) The Brothers Forbes and the liturgical books of medieval Scotland: Historical scholarship and liturgical controversy in the nineteenth-century Scottish Episcopal Church. Records of the Scottish Church History Society, 47(1), pp. 128-142. (doi: 10.3366/sch.2018.0008)
Davies, J. (2016) The standardisation of diplomatic in Scottish Royal Acts down to 1249. Part 2: letters with notification. Models of Authority, 29 Feb.
Davies, J. (2015) The standardisation of diplomatic in Scottish Royal Acts down to 1249. Part 1: Brieves. Models of Authority, 23 Dec.
Marritt, S. and Davies, J. R. (2014) Scottish bishops and the relic-lists of the cartulary of Christchurch Priory, Twynham, Hampshire, 1200–1221 (with an edition and translation of the text by John Reuben Davies). Innes Review, 65(2), pp. 128-152. (doi: 10.3366/inr.2014.0072)
Davies, J. (2013) The execution of William Wallace: Saint Bartholomew’s Eve, Monday 23 August 1305. Breaking of Britain: Cross-Border Society and Scottish Independence 1216-1314,
Davies, J. R. (2013) Welshmen in the army of Edward 1 during the Scottish campaign of 1296. Breaking of Britain: Cross-Border Society and Scottish Independence 1216-1314,
Davies, J.R. , Sharpe, R. and Taylor, S. (2012) Comforting sentences from the warming room at Inchcolm abbey. Innes Review, 63(2), pp. 260-266. (doi: 10.3366/inr.2012.0041)
Davies, J.R. (2012) Old Testament personal names among the Britons: their occurrence and significance before the twelfth century. Viator, 43(1), pp. 175-192.
Davies, J.R. (2011) The texts of the Ragman Roll. Breaking of Britain 1216-1314,
Davies, J.R. (2011) The making of the Ragman Roll: the work of the notary. Breaking of Britain 1216-1314,
Davies, J.R. (2011) The execution of William Wallace: the earliest account. Breaking of Britain 1216-1314,
Davies, J. (2011) William Wallace: pretender to the crown of Scotland. History Scotland, 11(5),
Davies, J. (2010) King David deals with a controversial transaction: the language of giving and granting in the dispute over Edrom and Nisbet. Feature of the Month: The Paradox of Medieval Scotland 1093-1286, 12,
Davies, J. (2009) 'Giving', 'Granting', and 'Confirming': the problem of dispositive verbs in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scottish charters: part III - implied warrandice in Scottish charters. Feature of the Month: The Paradox of Medieval Scotland 1093-1286, 5,
Davies, J. (2009) 'Giving', 'Granting', and 'Confirming': the problem of dispositive verbs in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scottish charters: Part II. Feature of the Month: The Paradox of Medieval Scotland 1093-1286, 4,
Davies, J. (2009) 'Giving', 'Granting', and 'Confirming': the problem of dispositive verbs in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scottish charters: Part I. Feature of the Month: The Paradox of Medieval Scotland 1093-1286, 2,
Davies, J. R. (2002) The historical background to diocesan organisation and episcopal jurisdiction in south-east Wales. Theology Wales, 2002, pp. 85-90.
Davies, J.R. (1998) Liber Landavensis: its date and the identity of its editor. Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 35, pp. 1-11.
Davies, J.R. (1997) Church, property, and conflict in Wales, AD 600–1100. Welsh History Review, 18(3), pp. 387-406.
Books
Davies, J. R. and Taylor, A. (2022) Regiam Majestatem: The Earliest Known Version. Series: The Stair Society, 68. The Stair Society: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781872517353
Davies, J. (2020) The Church in Medieval Scotland: Aspects of a Roman Inheritance. Series: St Aidan's lectures. Scottish Episcopal Church, Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway: Glasgow. ISBN 9781872170190
Davies, J.R. (2010) The cult of Saint Constantine. Society of Friends of Govan Old: Glasgow. ISBN 9780954532185
Davies, J.R. (2003) The Book of Llandaf and the Norman Church in Wales. Series: Studies in Celtic history (21). Boydell Press: Woodbridge, UK. ISBN 9781843830245
Book Sections
Davies, J. R. (2024) Kitsch in religion: identifying the kitsch aesthetic in liturgy. In: Szostak, Michał (ed.) Non-Artistic Kitsch. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 237-246. ISBN 9783031722363 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-72237-0_12)
Davies, J. R. (2022) Liturgy and the Buried Giant. In: Nichols, Bridget and Taylor, Nicholas (eds.) The End of the Church? Conversations with the Work of David Jasper. Sacristy Press: Durham, pp. 227-242. ISBN 9781789592528
Davies, J. R. (2021) Durga Puja in Glasgow. In: Das, Samir Kumar and Basak, Bishnupriya (eds.) The Making of Goddess Durga in Bengal: Art, Heritage and the Public. Springer Nature: Singapore, pp. 61-81. ISBN 9789811602627 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-0263-4_3)
Davies, J. (2021) Human being and the praise of God. In: Jasper, David and Fuller, Michael (eds.) Made in the Image of God: Being Human in the Christian Tradition. Sacristy Press: Durham, pp. 31-55. ISBN 9781789591705
Davies, J. (2019) The development of the charter in Scotland. In: Davies, John Reuben and Bhattacharya, Swapna (eds.) Copper, Parchment, and Stone: Studies in the Sources for Landholding and Lordship in Early Medieval Bengal and Medieval Scotland. Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: Glasgow, pp. 69-97. ISBN 9780852619506
Davies, J. (2019) Foreword. In: Davies, John and Bhattacharya, Swapna (eds.) Copper, Parchment, and Stone: Studies in the Sources for Landholding and Lordship in Early Medieval Bengal and Medieval Scotland. Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: Glasgow, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9780852619575
Davies, J. (2019) The Church in Medieval Ceredigion. In: Jenkins, Geraint H., Suggett, Richard and White, Eryn Mant (eds.) Cardiganshire County History Volume 2: Medieval to Early Modern Cardiganshire. Series: The Cardiganshire county history (2). University of Wales Press, pp. 175-195. ISBN 9781786834522
Davies, J. (2019) Old Testament personal names in Scotland before the Wars of Independence. In: Hammond, Matthew (ed.) Personal Names and Naming Practices in Medieval Scotland. Series: Studies in Celtic History (39). Boydell & Brewer: Woodbridge, pp. 187-212. ISBN 9781783274284 (doi: 10.1017/9781787445505.008)
Davies, J. (2019) Liturgy as a repository of truth. In: Jasper, David and Wright, Jenny (eds.) Truth and the Church in a Secular Age. SCM Press: London, pp. 84-101. ISBN 9780334058168
Davies, J. R. (2013) The cult of saints in the early Welsh March: aspects of cultural transmission in a time of political conflict. In: Duffy, Seán and Foran, Susan (eds.) The English Isles: Cultural Transmission and Political Conflict in Britain and Ireland, 1100-1500. Four Courts Press: Dublin, pp. 37-55. ISBN 9781846822230
Davies, J. (2011) Cathedrals and the cult of saints in eleventh and twelfth century Wales. In: Dalton, P., Insley, C. and Wilkinson, L.J. (eds.) Cathedrals, Communities and Conflict in the Anglo-Norman World. Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion. Boydell Press: Woodbridge, pp. 99-115. ISBN 9781843836209
Davies, J. (2010) The donor and the duty of warrandice: giving and granting in Scottish charters. In: The Reality Behind Charter Diplomatic in the Anglo-Norman Era. University of Glasgow: Glasgow, UK, pp. 120-165. ISBN 9780852619193
Davies, J. R. (2010) Celtic church. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
Davies, J. R. (2010) Clas churches. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
Davies, J. R. (2010) David (Dewi), St , patron saint of Wales. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
Davies, J. R. (2010) Hywel Dda (Hywel ‘the Good’), king of Wales. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
Davies, J. R. (2010) Llandaff, Book of. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
Davies, J. R. (2010) March of Wales. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
Davies, J. R. (2010) Scotland, Ireland, Wales: early Wales to 1064. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
Davies, J. R. (2010) Sulien. In: Bjork, Robert E. (ed.) The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198662624 (doi: 10.1093/acref/9780198662624.001.0001)
Davies, J.R. (2009) Bishop Kentigern among the Britons. In: Boardman, S., Davies, J.R. and Williamson, E. (eds.) Saints' Cults in the Celtic World. Series: Studies in Celtic history (25). Boydell Press: Woodbridge, UK, pp. 67-99. ISBN 9781843834328
Davies, J.R. (2009) Wales and West Britain in the tenth and eleventh centuries. In: Stafford, P. (ed.) A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c.500-1100. Series: Blackwell companions to history. Wiley-Blackwell: Chichester, UK, pp. 342-357. ISBN 9781405106283
Davies, J. (2008) Aspects of Church Reform in Wales, c. 1093–c. 1223. In: Lewis, C.P. (ed.) Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2007. Series: Anglo-Norman Studies (30). Boydell: Woodbridge, pp. 85-99. ISBN 9781843833796
Davies, J.R. (2008) The Augustinian and Premonstratensian canons. In: Davies, J. (ed.) Academi Encyclopedia of Wales. University of Wales: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9780708319543
Davies, J.R. (2008) The Benedictines. In: Davies, J. (ed.) Academi Encyclopedia of Wales. University of Wales: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9780708319543
Davies, J.R. (2008) Bernard (bishop of St Davids). In: Davies, J. (ed.) Academi Encyclopedia of Wales. University of Wales: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9780708319543
Davies, J.R. (2008) Herewald (bishop of Glamorgan). In: Davies, J. (ed.) Academi Encyclopedia of Wales. University of Wales: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9780708319543
Davies, J.R. (2008) St Samson of Dol. In: Davies, J. (ed.) Academi Encyclopedia of Wales. University of Wales: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9780708319543
Davies, J.R. (2008) Urban (bishop of Llandaf). In: Davies, J. (ed.) Academi Encyclopedia of Wales. University of Wales: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 9780708319543
Davies, J.R. (2007) The Archbishopric St Davids and the bishops of Clas Cynidr. In: Evans, J.W. and Wooding, J.M. (eds.) St. David of Wales: Cult, Church, and Nation. Series: Studies in Celtic history (24). Boydell Press: Woodbridge, UK, pp. 296-304. ISBN 9781843833222
Davies, J.R. (2007) Some observations on the 'Nero', 'Digby', and 'Vespasian' recensions of Vita S. David. In: Evans, J.W. and Wooding, J.M. (eds.) St. David of Wales: Cult, Church, and Nation. Series: Studies in Celtic history (24). Boydell Press: Woodbridge, UK, pp. 156-160. ISBN 9781843833222
Sharpe, R. and Davies, J.R. (2007) Rhygyfarch's Life of St David. In: Evans, J.W. and Wooding, J.M. (eds.) St. David of Wales: Cult, Church, and Nation. Series: Studies in Celtic history (24). Boydell Press: Woodbridge, UK, pp. 107-155. ISBN 9781843833222
Davies, J.R. (2005) Ecclesiastical organisation. In: Duffy, S., MacShamhráin, A. and Moynes, J. (eds.) Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia. Series: The Routledge encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (10). Routledge: New York, USA. ISBN 9780415940528
Davies, J.R. (2003) Church organization (Anglo-Saxon and Celtic). In: Loades, D.M. (ed.) Reader's Guide to British History. Fitzroy Dearborn: New York, USA. ISBN 9781579582425
Davies, J.R. (2003) Gerard of Wales. In: Loades, D.M. (ed.) Reader's Guide to British History. Fitzroy Dearborn: New York, USA. ISBN 9781579582425
Davies, J.R. (2003) Gruffudd ap Llywelyn. In: Loades, D.M. (ed.) Reader's Guide to British History. Fitzroy Dearborn: New York, USA. ISBN 9781579582425
Davies, J.R. (2003) Historia Brittonum. In: Loades, D.M. (ed.) Reader's Guide to British History. Fitzroy Dearborn: New York, USA. ISBN 9781579582425
Davies, J.R. (2003) Rhodri the Great and Hywel the Good. In: Loades, D.M. (ed.) Reader's Guide to British History. Fitzroy Dearborn: New York, USA. ISBN 9781579582425
Davies, J.R. (2003) Wales before union with England (early kingdoms). In: Loades, D.M. (ed.) Reader's Guide to British History. Fitzroy Dearborn: New York, USA. ISBN 9781579582425
Davies, J.R. (2002) The saints of South Wales and the Welsh church. In: Thacker, A. and Sharpe, R. (eds.) Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 361-395. ISBN 9780198203940
Davies, J. (1999) The Book of Llandaf: a twelfth-century perspective. In: Harper-Bill, C. (ed.) Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1998. Series: Anglo-Norman Studies, 21. Boydell Press: Suffolk, UK. ISBN 9780851157450
Book Reviews
Davies, J. R. (2022) Dan D. Cruickshank, The Theology and Ecclesiology of the Prayer Book Crisis, 1906–1928, Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Pivot, 2019). ISBN 978-3-030-27129-9 hardback; 978-3-030-27130-5 eBook. Pp. ix + 127. £54.99 (hardback); £43.99 (eBook). Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 6(2), pp. 48-50. [Book Review]
Davies, J. (2021) Review of R. Andrew McDonald, The Sea Kings: The Late Norse Kingdoms of Man and the Isles, c. 1066–1275. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 41(2), pp. 203-205. (doi: 10.3366/jshs.2021.0334)[Book Review]
Davies, J. R. (2021) Review of The History of Scottish Theology, Volume I: Celtic Origins to Reformed Orthodoxy, edited by David Fergusson and Mark W. Elliott. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 5(2), pp. 121-124. [Book Review]
Davies, J. (2020) Review of Buchedd Beuno. The Middle Welsh Life of St Beuno. Edited, with a Short Grammar of Middle Welsh, by Patrick Sims-Williams. Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies(80), pp. 94-96. [Book Review]
Davies, J. (2019) Review of Celebrating Liturgical Time: Days, Weeks, and Seasons, by J. Neil Alexander. Anaphora, 12, pp. 204-208. [Book Review]
Davies, J. R. (2018) Review of David W. Fagerberg. Liturgy Outside Liturgy: The Liturgical Theology of Fr. Alexander Schmemann. Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal, 2(3), pp. 46-47. [Book Review]
Davies, J. (2017) Review of Lizette Larson-Miller, Sacramentality Renewed: Contemporary Conversations in Sacramental Theology. Anaphora, 11(2), pp. 82-84. [Book Review]
Davies, J. R. (2016) Phillip Tovey. Of Water and the Spirit: Mission and the Baptismal Liturgy. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2015. viii + 151 pp. £16.99 eBook & paperback. ISBN 9781848258037. Anaphora, 10(1), pp. 104-106. [Book Review]
Davies, J. (2011) Review of Helen Birkett, The Saints’ Lives of Jocelin of Furness: Hagiography, Patronage and Ecclesiastical Politics. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 62(4), p. 810. (doi: 10.1017/S0022046911000947)[Book Review]
Davies, J. (2007) Review of Damian Bracken and Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel, Ireland and Europe in the Twelfth Century: Reform and Renewal. European Journal of Archaeology, 10(2), pp. 252-254. (doi: 10.1179/eja.2007.10.2-3.252)[Book Review]
Edited Books
Davies, J. and Bhattacharya, S. (Eds.) (2019) Copper, Parchment, and Stone: Studies in the Sources for Landholding and Lordship in Early Medieval Bengal and Medieval Scotland. Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: Glasgow. ISBN 9780852619506
Davies, J. and Spurlock, R. (Eds.) (2018) Records of the Scottish Church History Society Vol. XLVII. Series: Records of the Scottish Church History Society. Scottish Church History Society: Edinburgh, UK.
Boardman, S., Davies, J.R. and Williamson, E. (Eds.) (2009) Saints' Cults in the Celtic World. Series: Studies in Celtic history. Boydell Press: Woodbridge, UK. ISBN 9781843834328
Research Reports or Papers
Davies, J. R. and Broun, D. (2020) The manuscripts of the Declaration [of Arbroath]. [Research Reports or Papers]
Das, S. K., Basak, B., Davies, J. R. and Guhathakurta, M. (2019) Heritage and the Mritshilpis and Pratimashilpis of Kumartuli: report on a consultative meeting held in Kolkata, West Bengal, 25 November 2018, with proposals for research. [Research Reports or Papers]
Davies, J. R. (2017) Preserving and promoting the historical cultural heritage of rural communities in West Bengal and Bangladesh: Report on a workshop held in Kolkata Saturday 29 April 2017. [Research Reports or Papers]
Beam-Frazier, A., Bradley, J., Broun, D. , Davies, J. , Hammond, M. and Pasin, M. (2012) People of Medieval Scotland 1093–1314 Database [web resource]. [Research Reports or Papers]
Conference or Workshop Item
Davies, J. R. (2016) Chasing models through Melrose, St Andrews and Holyrood. DigiPal VI: The Palaeography Awakens, London, UK, 05 Sep 2016. (Unpublished)
Conference Proceedings
Stokes, P., Brookes, S., Noel, G., Davies, J. , Webber, T., Broun, D. , Taylor, A. and Tucker, J. (2016) The Models of Authority Project: Extending the DigiPal Framework for Script and Decoration. In: Digital Humanities 2016, Kraków, Poland, 11-16 Jul 2016, pp. 896-899. ISBN 9788394276034
Film
Gamliel, O. , Davies, J. , Eliyahu, M., Sateesh, R., Aravind, S., Bhaskar, A., Sasidharan, S. U. and E.V., F. (2024) Kappalile (In the Boat). [Film]
Website
Davies, J. , Taylor, A., Caton, P., Ginestra, F., Geoffroy, N., Miguel, V. and Broun, D. (2021) A model of a dynamic edition of Regiam Maiestatem. [Website]
Brookes, S. J., Broun, D. , Davies, J. , Noel, G., Stokes, P., Taylor, A., Tucker, J. and Webber, T. (2015) Models of Authority: Scottish Charters and the Emergence of Government 1100 to 1250. [Website]
Boardman, S., Williamson, E. and Davies, J. (2007) Database of Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland. [Website]
Grants
2017 PI, ‘Preserving and promoting the historical cultural heritage of communities in Bengal’. A GCRF pump-priming project funded through the Scottish Funding Council. Collaborators: University of Calcutta, University of Delhi (India), Jahangirnagar University (Dhaka, Bangladesh), Indian Museum (Kolkata, Government of India), West Bengal State Archaeology Museum (Behala, West Bengal State Govt. Directorate of Archaeology and Museums). £5,600.
2014/15 PI, ‘Land-holding and the recording of property transfer: the comparative experience of medieval Scotland and early medieval Bengal’. Research collaboration between the University of Glasgow and the University of Calcutta funded by the British Academy’s International Partnership Mobility Scheme. £9,968.
Supervision
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Browell, Naomi
What does it mean that God is 'Father' and 'Lord'? A textual analysis of liturgical elements in the Scottish Liturgy 1982 and a feminist response
- Gardner, Owain
Music, Knowledge, Faith and Reform in the Thought and Practice of Robert Grosseteste and J. S. Bach
Teaching
PREVIOUS TEACHING
- TRS2002: Christian Traditions and Transformations (Part 2: Shaping the Western Theological Tradition)
- Scotland before the Wars of Independence (MLitt in Scottish History (Taught))
- Medieval Palaeography (MLitt in Medieval History (Taught))
Professional activities & recognition
Prizes, awards & distinctions
- 2020: Research Culture Award (University of Glasgow)
Editorial boards
- 2012: Innes Review (Editor)
- 2015 - 2019: Scottish History Society
- 2021: Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal
Professional & learned societies
- 2012: Officer and Trustee, Scottish Catholic Historical Association
- 2016: Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
- 2016: Member, Society for Liturgical Study
- 2016: Member, Henry Bradshaw Society
- 2019: Member, Stair Society
- 2021: Member, Societas Liturgica
Selected international presentations
- 2017: Public Lecture series (The Indian Museum, Kolkata, India)
- 2018: Special Lecture (University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India)
- 2023: Invited Presentation at International Workshop on Historical Registers of Cosmopolitanism: Communities in Pre-colonial South India, 21 March 2023 (Funded by the Institution of Eminence) (University of Hyderabad, India)
- 2023: Invited Presentation, Communities and Oceanic Connectivities (in collaboration with IQAC and Aazhi Archives) (Maharajas College, Ernakulam, Kerala, India (Department of Islamic History))
- 2024: Key International Resource Person, Digital Archiving Workshop (Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India)
- 2024: Special Lecture (University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India)
