Stephen Christopher Rowell

{{Short description|English historian (born 1964)}}

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| thesis_title = The role of Christianity in the last pagan state in Europe: Lithuania, 1315-1342

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| notable_works = Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire within East-Central Europe, 1295–1345 (1994),{{cite book |last1=Rowell |first1=Stephen Christopher |title=Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire Within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345 |date=1994 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1-107-65876-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X1cHAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA50 |access-date=17 July 2021 |language=en}}
Chartularium Lithuaniae res gestas magni ducis Gedeminne illustrans (2003){{cite web |last1=Rowell |first1=Stephen Christopher | title=Chartularium Lithuaniae res gestas magni ducis Gedeminne illustrans / tekstus, vertimus bei komentarus parengė S.C. Rowell. - 2003 |date=2003 |url=https://www.epaveldas.lt/object/recordDescription/LNB/C1B0002960629 |website=epaveldas.lt |access-date=17 July 2021 |language=Lithuanian}}

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Stephen Christopher Rowell (born 9 May 1964 in Leicester) is a British historian, translator and author of many publications and books about the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.{{cite web |last1=Matulevičius |first1=Algirdas |title=Stephen Christopher Rowell |url=https://www.vle.lt/straipsnis/stephen-christopher-rowell/ |website=Vle.lt |access-date=8 May 2021 |language=lt}}{{cite web |title=Stephen C. Rowell, PhD (Cantab) |url=http://briai.ku.lt/darbuotojai/stephen-christopher-rowell/ |website=KU.lt |publisher=Klaipėda University |access-date=8 May 2021 |language=lt}}{{cite web |title=Rowell, S. C. |url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n93029717/ |website=worldcat.org |access-date=8 May 2021}} His book Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire within East-Central Europe, 1295–1345 was published by Cambridge University Press in 1994.{{cite book |last1=Rowell |first1=Stephen Christopher |title=Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire Within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345 |date=5 May 1994 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-45011-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i4hpVJ51y4oC |access-date=8 May 2021 |language=en}}

Biography

Stephen Rowell studied history, Latin, French, and Russian languages at Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating in 1985, before working at the college as a researcher in 1988–89. From 1990 to 1993, Rowell lectured at Clare College, Cambridge about the History of Europe and Ruthenia in the Middle Ages.

Rowell visited Lithuania for the first time in 1985. He subsequently wrote a dissertation on The Role of Christianity in the Last Pagan State in Europe: Lithuania, 1315-1342, for which he obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 1990.{{cite thesis |last1=Rowell |first1=Stephen Christopher |title=The role of Christianity in the last pagan state in Europe: Lithuania, 1315-1342. |url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386130 |website=ethos.bl.uk |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=8 May 2021 |date=1990|type=Ph.D }}

In 1992–94, Rowell lectured in history at Vilnius University, Vytautas Magnus University, and Klaipėda University. From 1993 to 1999, he was a professor at the Klaipėda University. Since 2001, he has been the editor-in-chief of the periodical Lithuanian Historical Studies.{{cite web |title=Lithuanian Historical Studies {{!}} Lietuvos istorijos institutas |url=https://www.istorija.lt/leidiniai/mokslo-zurnalai-ir-testiniai-leidiniai/lithuanian-historical-studies/671 |website=Istorija.lt |publisher=Lithuanian Institute of History |access-date=8 May 2021 |language=lt}}

Publications

Rowell has published more than 50 articles on medieval Europe and the early history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, in both Lithuanian and foreign publications.

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