Dr James Palmer
Dr James Palmer

Dr James Palmer

MPhil (Cantab.), PhD (Shef.) FRHistS

 
Contact Details

E-mail - jtp21@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462197
Fax - +44 (0)1334 463334

 

 

Teaching and Research Interests

Cultural history of the early Middle Ages (7th to 12th centuries), particularly of Germany and England. My work has focused on various aspects of historical writing, hagiography, saints' cults, popular religion, and science. I have recently published a monograph on Anglo-Saxons on the continent and how they were commemorated in the Carolingian Empire. I am currently working on a study of the power of apocalyptic traditions in early and high medieval politics and society.

Main Publications

Monographs

  • Anglo-Saxons in a Frankish World 690-900 (Brepols, 2009) [Details]

Articles

  • “Calculating Time and the End of Time in the Carolingian World c. 740- c. 820”, English Historical Review, 126/ 523 (2011).
  • “Beyond Frankish Authority? Frisia and Saxony between the Anglo-Saxons and Carolingians”, in H. Sauer & J. Story (eds.), Anglo-Saxon England and the Continent (Tempe, AZ, 2011).
  • "Anskar's Imagined Communities", in H. Antonsson & I. Garipzanov (eds.), Saints and their Lives on the Periphery: Veneration of Saints in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe (c.1000-c.1200) (Turnhout, 2010). [Details]
  • “Hagiography and Time in the Carolingian vitae of St Boniface”, in R. Corradini, M. Diesenberger & M. Niederkorn-Bruck (eds.), Zwischen Niederschrift und Wiederschrift (Vienna, 2010). [Details]
  • "Defining Paganism in the Carolingian World", Early Medieval Europe, 15.4 (2007).
  • "Saxon or European? Interpreting and Reinterpreting St Boniface", History Compass, 4.5 (2006).
  • "The Vigorous Rule of Bishop Lull: Between Bonifatian Mission and Carolingian Church Control", Early Medieval Europe, 13.3 (2005).
  • "The Frankish Cult of Martyrs and the Case of the Two Saints Boniface", Revue benedictine, 114 (2004).
  • "Rimbert's Vita Anskarii and Scandinavian Mission in the Ninth Century", Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 55.2 (2004).

Administrative Duties

Mediaeval History MLitt Co-Ordinator

Teaching Duties

Offers the following honours course:

And the following Special Subject:

Current Research Students

Joanna Thornborough, Saints' Cults and Hagiography in Early Medieval Wurzburg and St Gall.

Research Students

I am happy to supervise students undertaking research in the following areas:

  • The Merovingian, Carolingian and Salian worlds
  • Anglo-Saxon England
  • Medieval historical writing before 1200, particularly saints' Lives and chronicles
  • Medieval beliefs, especially concerning the end of the world or saints' cults

Main Publications

Anglo-Saxons ina Frankish World