CONTACT INFORMATION:
School of Arts Histories and Cultures
University of Manchester
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Manchester, M13 9PL UK
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SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
(1) The interface between Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England, the Anglo-Saxon conversion, early British/English historical narrative literature, King Arthur, Bede, Gildas, Historia Brittonum.
(2) Medieval Landscape History, with a particular research interest in the North West of England
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
The Carvetii Sutton, Tribes of Roman Britain Series, 1985, 2nd. Ed. 1991, 158pp (joint author)
The Northern Counties to AD 1000 Longman, Regional History of England Series, 1986, 392pp
Rome, Britain and the Anglo-Saxons Routledge 1992, 263pp
The Kingdom of Northumbria AD 350-1100 Sutton, 1993, 296pp
The origins of Cheshire 1993 MUP, 231pp
The English Conquest: Gildas and Britain in the Fifth Century MUP, 1994, 220pp
An English Empire: Bede and the early Anglo-Saxon Kings MUP, 1995, 269pp
The Convert Kings: power and religious affiliation in early Anglo-Saxon England MUP 1997, 293pp
The Death of Anglo-Saxon England Sutton, 1997, 234pp
The Norman Conquest Sutton 1998, 118pp
King Arthur: Myth-Making and History Routledge 2002, 295pp
A Frontier Landscape: Lancashire and Cheshire in the Middle Ages Windgather Press 2004
Edited books:
The Changing Past Manchester University, Dept. of Extra-Mural Studies, 1979, 87pp
Excavations at Ordsall Hall Demesne Farm 1978-79, Greater Manchester Archaeological Group 1980, 36pp
Edward the Elder, Routledge 2001, 320pp (jointly with D.H.Hill)
Archaeology of the Roman Empire: a memorial to Professor G. D. B. Jones, British Archaeological Reports International Series 940, 2001, 355pp
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Marginally, in the context of Bede’s work, Gildas, early English society and the British.
History of the Medieval Book:
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Marginally in the context of the Annales Cambriae.
Other Possible Themes:
I am interested in applying the critical apparatus of Literature to Medieval Historical Narratives such as Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica.
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Martin Ryan: The relationship between land tenure and power in pre-Viking England
Richard Watson: Central Lancashire in the Viking Age
Roy Gilmartin: The Medieval Landscape of Medieval North Cheshire
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
I am interested in online learning for medieval landscape history and have already developed some materials. I would be interested in offering a further developed course unit via the computer supported by videoconferencinge.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
The English Conversion to Christianity in the 7th century
Discordant Visions: The Matter of Britain (the origins and development of King Arthur from Gildas to Geoffrey of Monmouth)
The Medieval Landscape of North-West England
MEDIEVAL COURSES WOULD LIKE TO SEE DEVELOPED:
The English Medieval Landscape
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