This chapter is published within Early Medieval English Life Courses: Cultural-Historical Perspectives, ed. Porck and Soper. Please email me if you would like to cite it and I will send you a PDF with page numbers.

The ninth-century Annales Fontanellenses are a concise set of monastic annals composed by the community of St Wandrille, situated along the lower reaches of the river Seine. Covering the 840s and 850s, their contents are concerned with a relatively brief but highly tumultuous period in the history of the Frankish realm, representing an eclectic…[Read more]

Queens were important figures within the court communities of pre-Norman England, their status defined by their relationship to the king, whether as queen-consort, queen-mother, queen-regent, or queen-dowager. These were positions with an attendant degree of prestige and authority, but a vulnerability to the vicissitudes of the king’s fortunes. O…[Read more]

This is the Author Accepted Manuscript for my chapter, ‘Origin Legends and Objects’, in ‘Origin Legends in Early Medieval Western Europe’, ed. Lindy Brady and Patrick Warren (Brill, 2022) – https://brill.com/view/title/55035
Please contact me if you would like to cite this so I can send you a copy with corrections and page numbers as published.