David Woodman

Fellow of Robinson College
Associate Professor, and Director of Studies, in History (Robinson College)
Affiliated Lecturer (Faculty of History)
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Dr David Woodman
After my undergraduate degree in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Trinity College, Cambridge University, I furthered my interests in early medieval British history at postgraduate level, completing a PhD (again at Trinity College, on the early medieval charters of York and Durham) under the supervision of Professor Simon Keynes. I then spent three years as a British Academy postdoctoral research fellow, holding concurrently a Junior Research Fellowship at Robinson College, before being appointed to the position of College Teaching Officer in History at Robinson in 2011. In 2014 I was elected to a fellowship of the Royal Historical Society.
My research interests embrace multiple aspects of early medieval history. I have published an edition of the early medieval charters of Northumbria and recently finished a biography of Edward the Confessor. I am currently writing a biography of Athelstan, the first king of England, for Princeton University Press, and finishing an edition and translation of John of Worcester’s ‘Chronicula’ for the Oxford Medieval Texts series.
I provide lectures in the Faculty of History for papers 2 and 7 (the political, social and economic aspects of British history in the period 380-1100) and provide supervisions for the same papers. I also supervise for paper 3, British political history, 1050-1509, with a focus on the period 1050-1215.
I am currently Honorary Secretary for the British Academy/Royal Historical Society Joint Committee on Anglo-Saxon charters.
I would welcome enquiries from prospective students in many aspects of early medieval British history, but am particularly keen to work with postgraduate students interested in early medieval charters or twelfth-century historiography.

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Robinson College, Cambridge, CB3 9AN

Email
daw45@cam.ac.uk
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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 T. Pickles, Kingship, Society, and the Church in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire, Medieval History and Archaeology (Oxford, 2018), forthcoming in Early Medieval Europe
 
Review of M. Coombe, A. Mouron and C. Whitehead (eds), Saints of North-East England, 600-1500, Medieval Church Studies 39 (Brepols, 2017), Northern History 54, 1-3
 
Review of B. R. O'Brien and B. Bombi (eds), Textus Roffensis: Law, Language, and Libraries in Early Medieval England, in English Historical Review 133 (2018), 681-5

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
 
'Section 7: History and Culture' (with S. Jurasinski, Z. Metlitskaya, A. Rabin and E. Rowe), The Year's Work in Old English Studies 2010 (2012)

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
 
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