Dr Philip Dunshea

Lecturer in Celtic History of the Medieval Period

Contact Information

Department of ASNC
Faculty of English
9 West Road
Cambridge CB3 9DP
Office F-R 14 (+44-1223-767295)
e-mail: pmd33@cam.ac.uk

Departmental and College Responsibilities

ASNC Tripos, Part I

  • The Brittonic-speaking peoples from the fourth century to the twelfth
  • The Gaelic-speaking peoples from the fourth century to the twelfth

ASNC Tripos, Part II

  • An Advanced subject in Celtic history: Sea Kings and the Celtic Speaking World c. 1014-1164
  • A subject in ASNC History: Law and Lawlessness

Academic Interests

History of the Insular world, c.300-1000; late Roman North Britain; medieval Welsh literature and pseudo-history; Anglo-Saxon Northumbria; early medieval archaeology; politics and culture in the Irish Sea zone; early medieval geography.

Selected Publications

  • 'The "Strath Caruin" awdl and the Welsh Annals', The Medieval Journal 4.2 (2014)
  • ‘Druim Alban, Dorsum Britanniae – the Spine of Britain?, Scottish Historical Review 92.2 (2013)
  • ‘The meaning of catraeth: a revised early context for Y Gododdin’, in Beyond the Gododdin: Dark Age Scotland in Medieval Wales, ed. A. Woolf (St Andrews, 2013)
  • ‘Carn Droma and the Highland Watershed’, Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal 18 (2012)
  • ‘Another 18th-century reference to Arthur’s Oven’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 140 (2011)