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Bio | Dan Armstrong earned his PhD in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews, where he was funded by the European Research Council. Before joining UCD, Dan was a Mellon Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto), a Royal Historical Society Centenary Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research (London), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. He published his first article in the Haskins Society Journal on ‘The Norman Conquest of England, the Papacy, and the Papal Banner’ and recently co-edited a volume entitled ‘Borders and the Norman World: Frontiers and Boundaries in Medieval Europe’, which was published in December 2023 by The Boydell Press. Dan’s work focuses on papal relations with the periphery of Europe, especially the British-Irish Isles. His position at UCD is funded by the Leverhulme Trust, who have awarded him a Study Abroad Studentship to pursue a new project entitled ‘Rethinking the Anglo-Papal Past in the Aftermath of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066’. The project will examine how the Anglo-papal past was rewritten in the century after 1066 as a response to the Norman Conquest and the expansion of papal power. |
Keywords | {medieval}; {papacy}; {England}; {Anglo-Norman}; {Rome}; {British-Irish Isles} |
Nickname | Dan Armstrong |
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Education | 2018-2022, University of St Andrews: PhD (passed with minor corrections) in Medieval History 2017-2018, University of East Anglia: MA (Distinction) in Medieval History 2014-2017, Downing College, University of Cambridge: BA Honours (First-Class) in History.
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Employment | 2024-2026, University College Dublin: Visting Assistant Professor (position funded by the Leverhulme Trust). 2023-2024, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto): Mellon Fellow. 2022, University of St Andrews: Postdoctoral Research Fellow. 2021-2022, Institute of Historical Research: Royal Historical Society Centenary Fellow.
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Outreach activities | October 2022: BBC HistoryExtra Podcast: â1066: The Pope and the Conquerorâ. October 2021: History Hit Gone Medieval Podcast: âDid the Papacy Support the Norman Conquest?â
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Books | Borders and the Norman World: Frontiers and Boundaries in Medieval Europe (with Ăron KecskĂ©s, Leonie V. Hicks, and Charles C. Rozier) (The Boydell Press, 2023). xx + 395 pp. ISBN: 978-1-78327-785-8. |
Book Chapters | ‘Gregory VII, Lanfranc, and Ireland: Papal Relations at the Peripheryâ, in Borders and the Norman World: Frontiers and Boundaries in Medieval Europe (The Boydell Press, 2023), pp. 149-70. âWriting the Borders of the Norman Worldâ (with Ăron KecskĂ©s), in Borders and the Norman World: Frontiers and Boundaries in Medieval Europe (The Boydell Press, 2023), pp. 1-13.
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Peer Reviewed Journals | âThe Norman Conquest of England, the Papacy, and the Papal Bannerâ, Haskins Society Journal, 32 (2020), 47-72. |
Reviews | Review of Nicholas Karn, Kings, Lords, and Courts in Anglo-Norman England (2020), History, 106 (2021), 302-4. Review of Christina Antenhofer and Mark Mersiowsky (eds), The Roles of Medieval Chanceries: Negotiating Rules of Political Communications (2021), Speculum, 98 (2023), 829-30.
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