Dr David Woodman
Contact Information
Department of ASNC, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP
(+44-1223-767314)
Email: daw45@cam.ac.uk
Departmental and College Responsibilities
Fellow and Senior Tutor of Robinson College
Academic Interests
Research Interests
- Anglo-Saxon and twelfth-century history (in particular the study of charters and the Worcester Chronicon ex chronicis).
- Dr Woodman supervises MPhil topics in various aspects of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman historiography and diplomatic.
Teaching
- Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman history (Papers 2 and 7 and 3); palaeography; diplomatic.
Selected Publications
Books
Edward the Confessor: the Sainted King (Penguin, 2020)
Charters of Northern Houses (Oxford, 2012)
Edited books
Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. with R. Naismith (Cambridge, 2017)
The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past, ed. with M. Brett (Farnham, 2015)
Articles and book chapters
'Annals 848 to 1118 in the Historia Regum', in The Battle of Carham: A Thousand Years On, ed. N. McGuigan and A. Woolf (John Donald/Birlinn, 2018), pp. 202-30
'Introduction' [with R. Naismith], in Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. R. Naismith and D. A. Woodman (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 1-17
'Hagiography and Charters in Early Northumbria', in Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. R. Naismith and D. A. Woodman (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 52-70
'Charters, Northumbria and the Unification of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries', Northern History lii (2015), pp. 35-51
'"Æthelstan A" and the Rhetoric of Rule', Anglo-Saxon England xlii (2013), pp. 217-48
'The Forging of the Anglo-Saxon Past in Fourteenth-Century Beverley', English Manuscripts before 1400, ed. A. S. G. Edwards and O. Da Rold, English Manuscript Studies: 1100-1700, vol. xvii (London, 2012), pp. 26-42
