David d’Avray

Biographic Data

ID5692194
NAMEDavid d’Avray
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEd’Avray
SIGNATURED’AVRAY D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • The Cambridge History of the Papacy

    Open AccessLouis I Hamilton, Antonella De Michelis et al.BOOKThe Cambridge History of the Papacy2025

    Historically, the papacy has had – and continues to have – significant and sustained influence on society and culture. In the contemporary world, this influence is felt far afield from the traditional geographic and cultural center of papal authority in western Europe, notably in the Global South. Volume 3 frames questions around the papacy's cultural influence, focusing on the influence that successive popes and various vectors of papal authorit…

  • Journeys of the Mind

    Open AccessD L D'Avray, David d’AvrayARTICLEThe English Historical Review2025

  • The medieval church as an economic firm

    Open AccessD L D’avray, David d’AvrayARTICLEPublic Choice2024Cited by: 2References: 34

  • Jean Dunbabin

    Open AccessD L D’avray, David d’AvrayARTICLEThe English Historical Review2024

    Journal Article Jean Dunbabin: Principal Publications Get access David D'Avray David D'Avray d.d'[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, ceaa001, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaa001 Published: 30 March 2020

  • Jean Dunbabin

    Open AccessD L D’avray, David d’AvrayARTICLEThe English Historical Review2024

    The Oxford that Jean Dunbabin entered as an undergraduate had many medieval historians, but perhaps only two identifiable ‘schools’. One circle centred on K.B. MacFarlane and topics relating to English landed society and monarchy. The other consisted of scholars such as Richard Hunt, W.A. Pantin, Marjorie Reeves, Richard Southern and Beryl Smalley. These historians leaned towards intellectual and cultural history written from manuscripts. Since O…

  • Rationalities and rationalization

    D L D’avray, David d’AvrayCHAPTERRoutledge International Handbook…2022

    Max Weber is famous as the sociologist of rationality par excellence but his deepest insights have been obscured by overconcentration on one aspect of his thought about it. The aspect in question is the rationalization of the modern world. The outcome is a distorted caricature of Weber’s theory of rationality. A clue to the way back to understanding him is his comment that Hindu asceticism is the most rationalized in world history. For Weber, the…

  • A lexander R ussell . Conciliarism and Heresy in Fifteenth-Century England

    Open AccessD L D’avray, David d’AvrayARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    Alexander Russell’s intelligent and original monograph, Conciliarism and Heresy in Fifteenth-Century England: Collective Authority in the Age of the General Councils, relates the fifteenth-century councils of Constance and Basle to the religious climate of their time and to the practice of collective elite action. It will be remembered that these were councils dominated by intellectuals. The idea was in abeyance that a general council was a counc…

  • A Weberian approach to the history of ethics

    D L D’avray, David d’AvrayARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2018

    A distinction between hard-to-shake but rational convictions, on the one hand, and the rationality that calculates causal and logical consequences, on the other hand, can generate questions for the history of ethics. Most moral thinkers draw some such distinction but the contours of the line differ greatly, and, in drawing the line, past moral thinkers tend to be influenced by their own deeply held principles, which in turn tend to reflect their …

  • Royal Bastards

    Open AccessD L D’avray, David d’AvrayARTICLEThe English Historical Review2017

    This is Sara McDougall’s second book and it should establish her as one of the high flyers among American medieval historians. Historiographically, it belongs to a genre combining kinship analysis with political and legal history which can be traced back to Georges Duby. For all the criticisms that one can level against Duby as a historian (and McDougall adds some), his books had the merit of bringing social history, events history and canon law …

  • Cathars in Question

    Antonio Sennis, Bernard Hamilton et al.EDITORBOOKCathars in Question2016

  • Popular and Elite Religion

    Open AccessD L D’avray, David d’AvrayARTICLEStudies in Church History2006References: 2

    In rejecting the distinction between elite and popular religion, Eamon Duffy’s presidential address echoes a much earlier contribution to Studies in Church History. Arnaldo Momigliano found the dichotomy misleading where Christian historians of Late Antiquity were concerned, as Dermot Fenlon points out later in this volume, showing that the other historians too were thinking along the same lines. In the present volume Professor Duffy makes a simi…

  • Another Friar and Antiquity

    D L D’avray, David d’AvrayARTICLEStudies in Church History1981

    One of the most interesting of the classicizing friars appears to have remained undiscovered and unstudied to date. I know him from only one work, a collection of sermons or collationes, and that work from one anonymous manuscript. It may be that further research will succeed in identifying the author (which is a reason for publicizing the manuscript). From internal evidence and the script of the manuscript it is likely that he lived in the later…