Dr David Addison
I am a social and cultural historian of religion in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. My research focusses on the Iberian Peninsula and its connections with wider Atlantic and Mediterranean networks of communication. At present I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, pursuing my British Academy funded research project 'The Making of Atlantic Christianity: Asceticism and Organisation in Far-Western Europe, AD 300-900' (2024-27). Prior to this, I was a Fellow by Examination at All Souls College, Oxford (2017-24), where I completed doctoral research on the religious and cultural history of the Iberian Peninsula. My monograph, ‘Rethinking the Church in Suevic and Visigothic Iberia’, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. I returned to All Souls as a Fifty-Pound Fellow in 2025. I have also spent time as a visiting researcher at CCHS-CSIC in Madrid (2023) and the British School at Rome (2025).
Selected Publications
(under contract: Oxford University Press).
Traditio, 80 (2025), pp. 37-81.
in José Carlos López Gómez and Antón Alvar Nuño (eds), Rural Religious Practices, Networks and Mobility in Post-Roman Iberia (London: Routledge, 2025), pp. 57-77.
Al-Masāq, 37/1 (2025), pp. 73-95.
in Jamie Wood, Damián Fernández, and Molly Lester (eds), Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom: Beyond Imitatio Imperii (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023), pp. 223-51.
Early Medieval Europe, 28/2 (2020), pp. 175-96.
