Dr John Merrington
BA (Hons), MSt, MSc, DPhil
Quondam Fellow from 2025; Examination Fellow from 2018 to 2025
See my faculty web page for further details about my research.
- Examination Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (from 2018 to 2025)
- Doctor of Philosophy in Medieval History (from 2020 to 2024)
- Master of Science in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology (from 2019 to 2020)
- Master of Studies in Medieval History (from 2018 to 2019)
- Undergraduate, Somerville College, Oxford (from 2015 to 2018)
Thesis Title:
- Restraint and Reform: the Five Senses in Thought and Practice in Latin Europe, c. 500-900
Other Research Interests:
- The Writing of History in the Early Middle Ages; Archives; Anthropology; Gregory of Tours
- ‘Bede and Gregory of Tours: a Reconsideration’, English Historical Review (2024)
- ‘The Building Projects and the Histories of Gregory of Tours’, Early Medieval Europe 30/2 (2022), 159-84
- Centre for Intellectual History Blog Post, ‘The Nature of the Self in Fifth-Century Gaul’
- Formerly Stipendiary Lecturer at St. Hugh’s College and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
I have taught the following undergraduate courses:
- Outline courses on European and World History from 250 to 1300 and the History of the British Isles from 300 to 1100.
- Tacitus and Augustine components of ‘Tacitus to Weber’
- Foreign Texts: Einhard and Asser
- Optional Subject: Alfred and the Vikings
- Special Subject: Francia in the Age of Clovis and Gregory of Tours
- Disciplines of History
I have taught the following Master’s course:
- Theory and Methods in Historical Analysis
- Winner of Early Medieval Europe First Publication Prize (2022)
- Awarded a Distinction in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology Programme (2020)
- Awarded a Distinction in Medieval History MSt programme (2019).
- Somerville College Alumni Scholarship (2018).
- Gibbs Book Prize (2018).
- Somerville College Principal’s Prize (2018).
- Mary Somerville Prize (2018).
- Shaw Lefèvre Scholarship (2016, 2018).
- College Prize (2016).