David Woodman
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Robinson College, Cambridge, CB3 9AN
Key publications
Books
Edited books
Constructing History Across the Norman Conquest: Worcester, c. 1050-c. 1150, ed. with F. Tinti (York, 2022)
Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. with R. Naismith (Cambridge, 2017)
The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past, ed. with M. Brett (Farnham, 2015)
Forthcoming books
The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom (Princeton University Press)
Articles and book chapters
'Poetry in the Worcester Chronicula (TCD MS 503)', in Constructing History Across the Norman Conquest: Worcester, c. 1050-c. 1150, ed. F. Tinti and D. A. Woodman (York, 2022), pp. 200-26
'Framing the Past: Charters and Chronicles at Worcester, c. 1050-c. 1150' [with F. Tinti], in Constructing History Across the Norman Conquest: Worcester, c. 1050-c. 1150, ed. F. Tinti and D. A. Woodman (York, 2022), pp. 1-30
'After this, Conquest', History Today 70, issue 12
'Annals 848 to 1118 in the Historia Regum', in The Battle of Carham: A Thousand Years On, ed. N. McGuigan and A. Woolf (John Donald/Birlinn, 2018), pp. 202-30
'Introduction' [with R. Naismith], in Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. R. Naismith and D. A. Woodman (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 1-17
'Hagiography and Charters in Early Northumbria', in Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. R. Naismith and D. A. Woodman (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 52-70
'Charters, Northumbria and the Unification of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries', Northern History lii (2015), pp. 35-51
''Æthelstan A' and the Rhetoric of Rule', Anglo-Saxon England xlii (2013), pp. 217-48
'The Forging of the Anglo-Saxon Past in Fourteenth-Century Beverley', English Manuscripts before 1400, ed. A.S.G. Edwards and O. Da Rold, English Manuscript Studies: 1100-1700, vol. xvii (London, 2012), pp. 26-42
'William of Malmesbury', Literary Encyclopedia: http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4727
Book reviews
Review of G. R. Owen-Crocker and B. W. Schneider (eds), Kingship, Legislation and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, in Parliamentary History 35 (2016), 189-92
Review of B. Snook, The Anglo-Saxon Chancery: the History, Language and Production of Anglo-Saxon Charters from Alfred to Edgar, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 67 (2016), 628-9
Review of M. P. Brown, The Book and the Transformation of Britain c. 550-1050. A Study in Written and Visual Literacy and Orality, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 65 (2014), 386-7
Review of S. E. Kelly, The Charters of Peterborough Abbey, in Early Medieval Europe 19 (2011), 363-5
Review of D. Scragg (ed.), Edgar, King of the English, 959-975, in Early Medieval Europe 19 (2011), 118-20
Review of M. Richter, Bobbio in the Early Middle Ages: The Abiding Legacy of Columbanus, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 60 (2009), 773-4
Review of S. E. Kelly, The Charters of Malmesbury Abbey, in Early Medieval Europe 17 (2008), 225-7