| Currenly I am completing a book on the family backgrounds and careers of the secular clergy in north-western Europe c.800-c.1215, which allows an exploration of the roles of relatives, education and patronage in clerical careers, and an examination of the impact of the tightening up of restrictions on clerical marriage from the eleventh century onwards. I have nearly finished an edition of Hereford episcopal acta 1234-75 for the English Episcopal Acta series: this will complete the edition of charters issued by bishops of Hereford in the period from the Norman Conquest down to the introduction of episcopal registers. I am on the editorial board of the Brepols series Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe. I am now assistant editor of Nottingham Medieval Studies.
Supervision
I can supervise theses in most areas of English ecclesiastical and/or political history from the tenth to the early thirteenth centuries, and also theses based on the study of charters or of the writing of history over the same period. |
Teaching
My teaching spans the earlier middle ages, from the sixth century to the twelfth. The first year module ‘The Birth of Europe’ aims to introduce students to the earlier middle ages 500-1200. My second year option, ‘Blood and Treasure’, examines the impact of the Vikings on the Franks and the Anglo-Saxons in social, political, cultural and economic terms, while the third year option ‘Kings, Saints and Monsters’ focuses on what Bede and some of his contemporaries have to say about religious conversion, warfare and kingship among the Anglo-Saxons in the seventh and eighth centuries. My special subject on the Norman Conquest looks at continuity and change in England over the eleventh century. I convene an MA module on Anglo-Saxon England 900-1066 and I contribute to other MA modules, including ‘Power and Authority: the Records of the Medieval World’. | 
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Publications | Books: single-authored / joint-authored / edited Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: viii: Hereford, compiled by J.S. Barrow, Institute of Historical Research, London, 2002, xxxiv + 184 pp, ISBN 1 871348 64 1 Edited collections of essays Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks, ed. Julia Barrow and Andrew Wareham, Ashgate, 2008, + 260pp. St Wulfstan and his World, ed. J. Barrow and N.P. Brooks, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005, xx + 242 pp, ISBN 0 7546 0802 6. | 
| | Journal articles 'Demonstrative behaviour and political communication in later Anglo-Saxon England', Anglo-Saxon England, 36, 2007, 127-150 'Chester's earliest regatta? Edgar�s Dee-Rowing revisited�, Early Medieval Europe 10, 2001, 81-93 Essays in edited collections 'The statutes of St Davids Cathedral 1224-1259' in St David of Wales: Cult, Church and Nation, ed. J. Wyn Evans and Jonathan M. Wooding, Woodbridge: Boydell, 2007, 317-329 'Religion', in The Central Middle Ages, 950-1320, ed. D. Power, Short Oxford History of Europe, gen. ed. T. Blanning, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 121-48 'William of Malmesbury's use of charters', in E. Tyler and R. Balzaretti, ed. Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West, Turnhout: Brepols, 2006, 67-89) 'The chronology of forgery production at Worcester from c.1000 to the early twelfth century', in Julia S. Barrow and N.P. Brooks, ed. St Wulfstan and his World, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005, 105-122 'The origins of vicars choral to 1300', in Vicars Choral at English Cathedrals: Cantate Domino, ed. Richard Hall and David Stocker, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2005, 11-16 'The clergy in English dioceses c. 900-c. 1066' in Pastoral Care in Late Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Francesca Tinti, Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005, 17-26 'Why forge episcopal acta? Preliminary observations on the forged charters in the English Episcopal Acta series', in The Foundation of Medieval English Ecclesiastical History: Studies Presented to David Smith, ed. P. Hoskin, C.N.L. Brooke and B. Dobson, Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005, 18-39 'The clergy in the diocese of Hereford in the eleventh and twelfth centuries', in Anglo-Norman Studies, 26, Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2003, ed. J. Gillingham, Woodbridge: Boydell, 2004, 37-54 'Bishops and clergy in English, Scottish and Welsh dioceses, 900-1215', in La pastorale della Chiesa in occidente dall'et? ottoniana al concilio lateranense IV, ed. G. Andenna, Atti della quindicesima Settimana internazionale di studio Mendola, 27-31 agosto 2001, Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2004, 223-250 'Wulfstan and Worcester: bishop and clergy in the early eleventh century', in M. Townend, ed. Wulfstan Archbishop of York: Proceedings of the Second Alcuin Conference, Turnhout: Brepols, 2004, 141-159 Encyclopedia articles ‘Vere, William de’ in on-line update of Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2007 http://www.oxforddnb.com (article 95042) ‘Reinhelm and Geoffrey de Clive’ in on-line update of Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2007 http://www.oxforddnb.com (articles 95040, 95041) ‘Foliot, Hugh’ in on-line update of Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2007 http://www.oxforddnb.com (article 95044) ‘Mapenore, Hugh de’ in on-line update of Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2007 http://www.oxforddnb.com (article 95043) ‘Libraries’, A History of the County of Chester, V, Part 2, The City of Chester: Culture, Buildings, Institutions, ed. C.P. Lewis and A.T. Thacker, The Victoria History of the Counties of England (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2005), 293-294 ‘Railways’, A History of the County of Chester, V, Part 2, The City of Chester: Culture, Buildings, Institutions, ed. C.P. Lewis and A.T. Thacker, The Victoria History of the Counties of England (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2005), 91-94 ‘Gas supply’, A History of the County of Chester, V, Part 2, The City of Chester: Culture, Buildings, Institutions, ed. C.P. Lewis and A.T. Thacker, The Victoria History of the Counties of England (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2005), 41-42 ‘Sewerage’, A History of the County of Chester, V, Part 2, The City of Chester: Culture, Buildings, Institutions, ed. C.P. Lewis and A.T. Thacker, The Victoria History of the Counties of England (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2005), 39-41 ‘Water supply’, A History of the County of Chester, V, Part 2, The City of Chester: Culture, Buildings, Institutions, ed. C.P. Lewis and A.T. Thacker, The Victoria History of the Counties of England (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2005), 35-39 ‘Fire service’, A History of the County of Chester, V, Part 2, The City of Chester: Culture, Buildings, Institutions, ed. C.P. Lewis and A.T. Thacker, The Victoria History of the Counties of England (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2005), 30-32 ‘Policing’, A History of the County of Chester, V, Part 2, The City of Chester: Culture, Buildings, Institutions, ed. C.P. Lewis and A.T. Thacker, The Victoria History of the Counties of England (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2005), 29-30 ‘Wycombe [Wycumbe], William of (fl. c. 1127-c. 1148)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. plus index of contributors (Oxford, 2004), lx, 630-1 ‘Wulfwig (d. 1067)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. plus index of contributors (Oxford, 2004), lx, 566-7 ‘Wulfsige [St Wulfsige] (d. 1002)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. plus index of contributors (Oxford, 2004), lx, 555-6 ‘William (d. 1075)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. plus index of contributors (Oxford, 2004), lix, 32-3 ‘Walter [Walter of Lorraine] (d. 1079?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. plus index of contributors (Oxford, 2004), lvii, 156 ‘Robert the Lotharingian [Robert de Losinga] (d. 1095)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. plus index of contributors (Oxford, 2004), xlvii, 124-6 ‘Richard de Capella (d. 1127)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. plus index of contributors (Oxford, 2004), xlvi, 746 ‘Oscytel [Oskytel] (d. 971)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. plus index of contributors (Oxford, 2004), xlii, 41-2 ‘Maidstone, Ralph of (d. 1245)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. plus index of contributors (Oxford, 2004), xxxvi, 163-4 ‘Hermann (d. 1078)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. plus index of contributors (Oxford, 2004). xxvi, 786-7 ‘Giso (d. 1088)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. plus index of contributors (Oxford, 2004), xxii, 358-9 ‘Foliot, Robert (d. 1186)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. plus index of contributors (Oxford, 2004), xx, 221-2 ‘Briouze, Giles de (c. 1170-1215)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. plus index of contributors (Oxford, 2004), vii, 672-3 ‘Béthune, Robert de (d. 1148)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. plus index of contributors (Oxford, 2004), v, 546-8 | | | Conferences ‘Grades of ordination and clerical careers’, presented at the Thirtieth Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies, Gregynog, near Newtown, Powys, 1-6 August 2007 ‘From see to see: the translation of bishops in Anglo-Saxon England’, presented at La mobilité des clercs: Hiérarchie ecclésiastique, pensée ecclésiale et liens personnels au Moyen Age. Les translations épiscopales, Limoges 30 March 2007; a shorter version of this paper was also given at Leeds International Medieval Congress 9-12 July 2007 ‘Bishop Bricius – St Brice’, presented at Massakren pǻ Danskerne i England den 13. november 1002, Copenhagen 21 May 2007 ‘Hereford in Herefordshire’, presented at Early English Shire Towns, Rewley House, Oxford, 29-30 April 2006 ‘The aristocracy and the clergy in later Anglo-Saxon England’, presented at The Anglo-Saxon Aristocracy, King’s College London, 17-18 December 2005 ‘Clergy in childhood and adolescence, c. 900-1200’, presented at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 11-14 July 2005 ‘The chronology of the tenth-century English Benedictine reform in Edgar’s reign’, presented at Edgar the Peaceable, University of Manchester (MANCASS), 30 March-1 April 2005 ‘The ideas and application of reform, 600-1100’, presented at The Cambridge History of Christianity, III, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, September 2004 ‘The tenth-century English Benedictine “reform” (ideology and chronology)’, presented at Texts, Histories, Historiographies: the Medieval Worlds of Timothy Reuter, University of Southampton, 24-26 July 2004 ‘English Episcopal Acta’, presented at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 12-15 July 2004 ‘Clergy in the diocese of Hereford in the eleventh and twelfth centuries’, presented at the Twenty-Sixth Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies, Battle, Sussex, July 2003 ‘Wulfstan and Worcester: bishop and clergy in the early eleventh century’, presented at Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, Second Alcuin Conference, King’s Manor, York (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York), 15-18 July 2002 ‘Clergy in English dioceses in the 10th and 11th centuries’, presented at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 8-11 July 2002 ‘The statutes of St Davids cathedral, 1224-1259’, presented at St David: Cult, Church and Nation, Lampeter, 23-27 June 2002 ‘The origins of vicars choral to c. 1300’, presented at Cantate Domino: Vicars Choral, York (organised by York Archaeological Trust), 22-24 March 2002 ‘Bishops and clergy in English, Scottish and Welsh dioceses 900-1215’, presented at La Pastorale della Chiesa in Occidente, La Mendola (near Bolzano in N. Italy), 26-31 August 2001 Full pre-2001 publication list Top | |
