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

http://st-andrews.academia.edu/JamesPalmer

 

Teaching and Research Interests

Early Medieval Europe (6th to 9th centuries) – in particular the cultural and political history of the Merovingian and Carolingian kingdoms; Anglo-Saxon England; ‘barbarians’ and Vikings; saints’ cults and hagiography; apocalypticism.

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Main Publications

Monographs

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

Articles

  • 'The Ordering of Time', in V. Wieser, C. Zolles, C. Feik, M. Zolles & L. Schlöndorff (eds.), Abendländische Apokalyptik. Kompendium zur Genealogie der Endzeit (Berlin, 2013).
  • “Computus after the Paschal Controversy of AD740” in I. Warntjes & D. Ó Cróinín (eds.), The Easter Controversy of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Its Manuscripts, Texts and Tables (Turnhout, 2011). [Details]
  • “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).

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Teaching Duties

On Research Leave Semester 2 - 2012/13

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 any area of continental or English history from the sixth to the eleventh centuries.

 

Main Publications

Anglo-Saxons ina Frankish World