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Robert Arthur Donkin, geographer: born
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Donkin published a number of papers on
Cistercian farming activity, introducing a new geographical dimension to monastic studies. Among his notable contributions to the field of historical geography is a 60-page synthesis on "Changes in the Early Middle Ages", which was contributed by him to the
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Lecturer in the
Geography of Latin America, Cambridge University 1971–90, Reader in Historical Geography 1990-96 (Emeritus)' Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge 1972- 96 (Emeritus), Tutor 1975-96' FBA1985' married 1970 Jennifer Kennedy (one daughter)' died Cambridge 1 February 2006.
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in 1998 – a work containing a mammoth 60 page bibliography – was published as a memoir of the
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in 1955. It was here that he was influenced by the
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Beyond Price: pearls and pearl-fishing, origins to the Age of
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monasteries, agricultural terracing, the history of
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