Jean Dunbabin


Jean Hymers Dunbabin is an honorary fellow of St Anne's College, University of Oxford. Dunbabin specialises in medieval political communities in France c. 1000-c.1350, and in southern Italy and Sicily 1250–1310, and medieval political thought. She is a fellow of the British Academy - since 2024, Emeritus Fellow.
Dunbabin has contributed to The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy, The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350–c.1450, and The New Cambridge Medieval History. She edited The English Historical Review from 1999 to 2004.

Personal life

Dunbabin is married to John Dunbabin and has two daughters, Bridget and Penny

Selected publications