Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Downing College
Key Publications
‘The Illnesses of King Alfred the Great’, in Anglo-Saxon England 30 (2001), 39-90
‘Persuasion and Invention at the Court of King Alfred the Great’, in Court Culture in the Early Middle Ages, ed. C. Cubitt (Turnhout: Brepols, 2003), pp. 189-221
The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
‘Problems of Authorship and Audience in the Writings of King Alfred the Great’, in Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World, ed. P. Wormald and J. L. Nelson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 162-91
‘Written Law and the Communication of Authority in Tenth-Century England’, in England and the Continent in the Tenth Century, ed. D. Rollason (forthcoming)