Christopher de Hamel

Christopher Francis Rivers de Hamel FSA FRHistS (born 20 November 1950) is a British academic librarian and expert on mediaeval manuscripts.

[1] At the age of four he moved with his parents to New Zealand, where he was educated at King's High School, Dunedin, and graduated with an honours degree in history from the University of Otago.

[2][3] He was subsequently awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree by Oxford University[4] for his research on 12th-century Bible commentaries.

[5] His thesis was titled "The production and circulation of glossed books of the Bible in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries".

[9] He delivered the 2009 Lyell Lectures at Oxford University on the subject of "Fragments in Book Bindings".

Christopher de Hamel delivers a public lecture on "The Library of Saint Thomas Becket" at Burlington House , Society of Antiquaries of London , 6 June 2017