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Faculty of History

The Faculty

Dr David Pratt

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Dr David Pratt

Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Downing College


Departments and Institutes

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)