Post-Doc, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
Junior Research Fellow
Clare College
About
My research focuses primarily on ways in which numismatic evidence informs aspects of early medieval history, particularly in the British Isles. I also teach and study other aspects of the society and culture of the period, including Latin and Old English literature.
I began my doctoral studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 2006, and submitted my thesis in July 2009. My thesis centred on the role of Anglo-Saxon coinage as a historical source for the period c. 750–c. 865. In the course of this work I examined both the coins themselves as well as the written and archaeological sources touching on coinage and economic life. As an appendix to the thesis, I included a catalogue of all surviving silver pennies produced in southern England 796–c. 865. I hope to publish both this catalogue and a book based on the thesis, and also to extend my research to cover the coinage of tenth- and eleventh-century England and neighbouring kingdoms.
Within the department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic I have supervised students taking undergraduate papers on Anglo-Saxon history, palaeography and codicology, Old English language and literature and Insular Latin language and literature.
In October 2009 I took up a position as a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge.
