Dr Alex Woolf
Senior Lecturer
Research areas
My main interests lie in the history of Britain and Ireland before the coming of the Normans with a bias towards the earlier part of the period, c.400-900. Particular interests include ethnic interaction and language shift, the development of political structures, and social and economic history.
Furth of these islands, I have less well developed interests in Late Roman and early post Roman Gaul and in Scandinavia in the first millennium AD. In many ways I feel a closer affinity to students of later prehistory than those of the later Middle Ages.
PhD supervision
- Sophia Kniaz
- Frances Bickerstaff
Selected publications
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Columbanus's Ulster education
Woolf, A., 24 May 2018, Columbanus and the peoples of post-Roman Europe. O'Hara, A. (ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, p. 91-102 11 p. (Oxford studies in late antiquity).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Imagining English origins
Woolf, A. D., 1 Feb 2018, Quaestio insularis: Selected proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, p. 1-20 20 p. (Quaestio; vol. 18).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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The Scandinavian intervention
Woolf, A., Apr 2018, The Cambridge history of Ireland: Volume 1. 600-1550. Smith, B. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Vol. 1. p. 107-130 24 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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On the nature of the Picts
Woolf, A. D., Oct 2017, In: Scottish Historical Review. 96, 2, p. 214-217 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review