Prof James Palmer

Director of Research

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2197

Email

jtp21@st-andrews.ac.uk

Location

Mediaeval History, 71 South Street

Office hours

By appointment. On Research Leave (Semester 2).

 

Biography

I was born in Nottingham and studied in Sheffield (BA and PhD) and Cambridge (MPhil). I held posts at the universities of Leicester and Nottingham, before moving to St Andrews in 2007. I was a cross-faculty pro dean for research postgraduates 2014-18 and I have been a full professor since 2018.

Research areas

My research focuses on culture and religion c. 400-900. I am particularly interested in the movement of ideas and people across different cultural worlds – across Eurasia and Africa – and the consequences of the exchanges involved.

My research has focused on two principal areas: saints and hagiography (Anglo-Saxons in a Frankish World [2009] and Early Medieval Hagiography [2018]) and apocalyptic beliefs (The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages [2014] and the volume Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages [2018, co-edited with Matt Gabriele]).

I am presently working on a project on early medieval science, medicine and belief. I am also writing a textbook on the Merovingian Frankish world.

PhD supervision

• Dana Weaver
• Jessica Collett
• Matthew Edholm

Selected publications

• Open access

  The global eminent life: sixth-century collected biographies from Gregory of Tours to Huijiao of Jiaxiang Temple

  Palmer, J. T., Nov 2018, In: Medieval Worlds. Comparative and Interdisciplinary Studies. 8, p. 22-41

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Early medieval hagiography

  Palmer, J. T., 2018, Leeds: Arc Humanities Press. 122 p. (Past Imperfect)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• To Be Found Prepared: Eschatology and Reform Rhetoric c.570-c.640

  Palmer, J. T., 2018, Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Palmer, J. & M. G. (eds.). p. 31-49

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Climates of crisis: apocalypse, nature and rhetoric in the early medieval world

  Palmer, J. T., 2018, In: Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 48, 2, p. 1-20

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The adoption of the Dionysian Easter in the Frankish kingdoms (c. 670-c. 800)

  Palmer, J. T., 1 Mar 2018, In: Peritia. 28, p. 135-154

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The Apocalypse in the early Middle Ages

  Palmer, J., Nov 2014, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 254 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Calculating Time and the End of Time in the Carolingian World, c.740-820

  Palmer, J. T., Dec 2011, In: English Historical Review. 126, 523, p. 1307-1331

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Anglo-Saxons in a Frankish World, 690-900

  Palmer, J. T., 2009, Brepols Publishers. 324 p. (Studies in the Early Middle Ages; vol. 19)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Defining Paganism in the Carolingian World

  Palmer, J. T., Nov 2007, In: Early Medieval Europe. 15, 4, p. 402-425

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Rimbert's Vita Anskarii and Scandinavian mission in the ninth century

  Palmer, J. T., Apr 2004, In: Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 55, 2, p. 235-256 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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