弗兰克·梅利·斯坦顿

弗兰克·梅利·斯坦顿爵士（英语：Sir Frank Merry Stenton|，1880年5月17日—1967年9月15日) 是一位研究盎格鲁-撒克逊英格兰的英国历史学家，1937至1945年间任皇家历史学会会长。是《牛津英格兰史》中<盎格鲁-萨克逊英格兰>（1943年出版）的作者。

1926年至1946年间担任雷丁大学历史学教授，1946年至1950年任该大学副校长，在担任副校长职务期间，他主持买下了白教堂广场，后来被用作了大学新校区。2008年11月，雷丁大学的一个新宿舍被命名为Stenton Hall，以资纪念。

他的妻子是桃瑞丝·玛丽·斯坦顿也是一位历史学家，曾为《鹈鹕英格兰史》写下<中世纪早期英格兰社会>一文，也曾为她丈夫的书写过序言。

斯坦顿曾在牛津大学基布尔学院学习，1947年被选为“Honorary Fellow”。在1948年的新年荣誉榜上被赐予下级勋位爵士，同年2月10日由乔治六世在白金汉宫颁发。

Sir Frank Merry Stenton (17 May 1880 – 15 September 1967) was an English historian of Anglo-Saxon England, a professor of history at the University of Reading (1926–1946), president of the Royal Historical Society (1937–1945), Reading University's vice-chancellor (1946–1950).

Life

The son of Henry Stenton of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, he was educated at Keble College, Oxford, and was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1947.

With Allen Mawer, Stenton wrote the second English Place-Name Society volume, The Place-Names of Buckinghamshire, published in 1925. He delivered the Ford Lectures at Oxford University in 1929. He went on to write Anglo-Saxon England, a volume of the Oxford History of England, first published in 1943 and described by Simon Keynes as "magisterial and massively authoritative". In the view of Nicholas Higham writing in 1992 it "remains the most complete study of Anglo-Saxon history that has ever appeared. He was himself a historian of the first rank, an eminent place-name scholar and in addition well versed in archaeological literature." Rory Naismith describes him as "the great historian".

Stenton was a professor of history at the University of Reading (1926 – 1946), and subsequently the university's vice-chancellor (1946–1950). During his period as vice-chancellor at Reading, he presided over the university's purchase of Whiteknights Park, creating the new campus that allowed for the expansion of the university in later decades. In November 2008, it was announced that a new hall of residence to be constructed on that campus would be named Stenton Hall, in his honour. The annual Stenton Lecture, given by an eminent historian, was inaugurated at Reading University in 1967.

He was knighted in the 1948 New Year Honours, and received the accolade from King George VI at Buckingham Palace on 10 February 1948.

His wife, Doris Mary Stenton, wrote a preface to the third edition of Anglo-Saxon England, published after his death, and edited Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England: Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton, published in 1970. She was a historian in her own right, producing English Society in the Early Middle Ages for the Pelican History of England, and The English Woman in History (1957). They are buried together at Halloughton, Nottinghamshire.

Stenton's papers, together with those of his wife Doris, Lady Stenton, their library and his coin collection are part of the Special Collections in the University of Reading.

Publications

Stenton's publications include:

First Century of English Feudalism, 1066-1166 (Ford Lectures) (New ed.). Greenwood Press. 1979 [1932]. ISBN 978-0313209154.

"The Danes in England". History, 5 (1920): 173–177. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-229X.1920.tb01326.x

Types of Manorial Structure in the Northern Danelaw

Documents illustrative of the social and economic history of the Danelaw, from various collections (1920)

Anglo-Saxon England (3rd ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 1971 [1943]. ISBN 978-0-19-821716-9.