Claire Marie Donovan FSA RA FRHistS (née Baker; 12 February 1948 – 5 June 2019[1]) was a British historian and academic.
Claire Marie Donovan | |
|---|---|
| Born | 12 February 1948 |
| Died | 5 June 2019 (aged 71) |
| Occupation(s) | Lecturer Academic Historian |
| Spouse | |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford University of East Anglia |
| Thesis | The early development of the illustrated book of hours in England, c. 1240-1350 (1981) |
Career
editDonovan was educated in Oxford before studying an undergraduate degree in English and History of Art at the University of London. She gained a Postgraduate diploma from Somerville College, Oxford and a PhD from the University of East Anglia.[2] Her PhD thesis, "The Early Development of the Illustrated Book of Hours in England, c. 1240–1350," was filed in 1981.[3]
She was vice principal of Dartington College of Arts, an Honorary Research Fellow in the College of Humanities at the University of Exeter, a Council member of the Devon History Society, a Trustee of Poltimore House Trust[4] and Chair of the South West Association of Preservation Trusts.[2]
Personal life
editIn 1996, she married Colin Platt, a historian, archaeologist and academic.[5]
Doctoral thesis and select publications
edit- Baker, C. M. 1981. "The Early Development of the Illustrated book of Hours in England, c. 1240–1350" (unpublished Ph.D. thesis).
- Donovan, C. 1991. The de Brailes Hours: shaping the book of hours in 13th-century Oxford. London, British Library.
- Donovan, C. and Bushnell, J. 1996. John Everett Millais, 1829–1896: a centenary exhibition. Southampton, Media Arts Faculty Institute.
- Donovan, C. 2000. The Winchester Bible. Winchester, Winchester Cathedral.
- Donovan, C. 2005. Review of Kathryn A. Smith, Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England: Three Women and their Books of Hours (London: The British Library/Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 2003), in English Historical Review CXX, no. 486, pp. 203-05.
- Donovan, C. and Hemmings, J. 2014. "Evidence for Eighteenth-Century Rebuilding at Poltimore House: Interpreting Edmund Prideaux’s Drawings, 1716 and 1727", The Devon Historian 83.
References
edit- ^ "Obituary:Claire Marie Donovan". The Times.
- ^ a b Sandy Nairne (19 June 2019). "Fellow's Remembered: Claire Donovan FSA". SALON: Society of Antiquaries of London Online Newsletter. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ The Early Development of the Illustrated Book of Hours in England, c. 1240–1350 in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- ^ "Investigating Poltimore and its landscape". University of Exeter. 9 September 2010. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ Stamper, Paul (24 September 2015). "Colin Platt obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 December 2024.