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Books
Places of Contested Power:
Conflict and Rebellion in England and France, 830-1150,
(Woodbridge: Boydell, 2020) The Land of the English Kin:
Studies in Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Professor
Barbara Yorke,
(Leiden: Brill, 2020) - edited, with Alexander Langlands Cnut: The North Sea King,
Penguin Monarchs series (London: Random House, 2017) Danes in Wessex: The
Scandinavian Impact on Southern England, c.800-c.1100 (Oxford:
Oxbow, 2016) - edited, with Simon Roffey Alfred's Wars: Sources and Interpretations of
Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age, Warfare in History
series (Woodbridge: Boydell 2010 [paperback, 2012]) - selected
for the 2011 Outstanding
Academic Title list by Choice
magazine and the
2012 Verbruggen Prize, awarded by De
Re Militari: The
Society for Medieval Military History. Royal Estates in Anglo-Saxon Aethelred II: King of the English, 978-1016
(Stroud: Tempus, 2002; revised edition, 2008) Fortifications in |
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Articles/ Chapters ‘Le contrôle
des
terres royales dans le royaume anglo-saxon (IX e au début du XI e
siècle) : que
saurions-nous sans le Domesday Book?’, in Biens publics, biens du
roi: Les
bases économiques des pouvoirs royaux dans le haut Moyen Âge, ed.
F.
Bougard and V. Loré (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), pp. 213-31 'Perceiving
and Personifying Status and Submission in Pre-Viking England: Some
Observations on a Few Early Hostages', in M. Bennett and K. Weikert
(eds), Medieval Hostageship,
c.700–c.1500: Hostage, Captive, Prisoner of War, Guarantee, Peacemaker
(London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 36-59 'Controlling and
Contesting Urban Spaces: Rulers and Urban Communities in Southern
England and Northern France from the Later 9th to 11th Century', in N.
Christie and H. Herold (eds), Fortified
Settlements in Early Medieval Europe: Defended Communities of the
8th–10th Centuries (Oxford: Oxbow, 2016), pp. 158-74 (with Simon Roffey) ‘West Saxons and Danes: Negotiating Identities in the Early Middle Ages’, in R. Lavelle and S. Roffey (eds), Danes in Wessex: the Scandinavian impact on Southern England, c.800–c.1100 (Oxford: Oxbow, 2016), pp. 7-34 ‘Law, Death and
Peacemaking in the “Second Viking Age”: An Ealdorman, his King, and
Some “Danes” in Wessex’, in Lavelle and Roffey (eds) Danes in Wessex, pp. 123-43 ‘Sous la lumière
d’Alfred le Grand ou dans l’obscurité des Vikings? Quelques problèmes
et possibilités dans la périodisation de l’histoire anglaise
“pre-Conquest”’, in J.-F. Dunyach and A. Mairey (eds), Les âges de
Britannia : Repenser l’histoire des mondes britanniques (Moyen Âge-XXIe
siècle) (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015), 33–54 ‘Royal Control and the
Disposition of Estates in Tenth-Century England: Reflections on the
Charters of King Eadwig (955-959)’, Haskins Society Journal 23
(2014), 23-49 ‘Anglo-Saxonists,
Æthelred II and a Rolling Millennium—1978–2014, and Beyond’, in B.
[K.] Carella and L. S. Chardonnens (eds), Unræd: Intellectual
Thought
and Rule in Æthelredian England, special issue of English Studies
95 (2014), 721–32 ‘Ine 70.1 and Royal Provision in Anglo-Saxon Wessex’, in G. Owen-Crocker and B. W. Schneider (eds), Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2013), pp. 259-73 ‘Representing Authority in an Early Medieval Chronicle: Submission, Rebellion and the Limits of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, c.899-1065’, in J. Dresvina and N. Sparks (eds), Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012), pp. 62-101 ‘Campagnes et stratégies des armées anglo-saxonnes pendant l'époque viking’, Médiévales 63 (autumn 2012), 123-44 (translation, with modifications, of chapter 5 of Alfred's Wars) ‘Geographies
of Power in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: The Royal Estates of ‘The Politics of Rebellion: The Ætheling Æthelwold and West Saxon Royal Succession, 899-902’, in P. Skinner (ed.), Challenging the Boundaries of Medieval History: the Legacy of Timothy Reuter, Studies in the Early Middle Ages 22 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009), pp. 51-80 ‘A
Territorial Landscape: The Late Anglo-Saxon and Post-Conquest Estates',
in B. Cunliffe, The Danebury Environs Roman Programme,
Volume 1 : Overview ( ‘The
King's Wife and Family Property Strategies: Late Anglo-Saxon 'The Use and Abuse of Hostages in Later Anglo-Saxon England', Early Medieval Europe 14.3 (2006), 269-96 ‘Why Grateley? Reflections on Anglo-Saxon Kingship in a Hampshire Landscape’, Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 60 (2005), 154-69 Click here for a web-only PDF copy (opens a new window) ‘All
the
King’s Men? Land and Royal Service in Eleventh-Century Wessex’, Southern
History 26 (2004), 1-37 ‘Towards a Political Contextualization of Peacemaking and Peace Agreements in Anglo-Saxon England’, in D. Wolfthal (ed.), Peace and Negotiation: Strategies for Coexistence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 4 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000), pp. 39-55 |
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Other Publications ‘How England Rode the Viking Storm’, BBC History Magazine 2015, no. 11 (November 2015), 22-27 (with Elton O. S. Medeiros) ‘Entrevista: Estudos Anglo-Saxônicos’, Brathair 12:2 (2012), 149–54 ‘The Dark Side of the Anglo-Saxons’, BBC History Magazine 2012, no. 13 (Christmas 2012), 21-27 ‘Fighting the Vikings’, BBC History Magazine 12:1 (January 2011), 22-28 Entries on works concerning King Æthelred II, Earl Godwine of Wessex, King Edward the Martyr and a review of general works on Anglo-Saxon England for D. Loades (ed.), Reader’s Guide to British History (New York and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003) ‘Ethnic Cleansing in Anglo-Saxon England’ (on the St Brice’s Day Massacre, 1002), BBC History Magazine 3:11 (November 2002), 42-44 ‘The Bayeux Tapestry: Images of Battle in the Eleventh Century’, Osprey Military Journal 4:3 (2002), 7-10 ‘Æthelwold of Wessex: “King of the Pagans”’, Osprey Military Journal 2:6 (2000), 15-24 Click here to access the text on the Osprey website (opens a new window) |
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