Research Staff:
Dr Roy Flechner
Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
Contact
Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ
Email: rf294@cam.ac.uk
Research Interests
- Conversion to Christianity, early medieval law and canon law, historiography, literacy, books and transmission.
Teaching (On research leave in Michaelmas 2011)
- Political, ecclesiastical, and social-economic history of early medieval Britain and Ireland
Selected Publications
- A Study, Edition and Translation of the Hibernensis, with commentary. Scriptores Latini Hiberniae Series, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (Forthcoming).
- 'Patrick’s reasons for leaving Britain', in F. Edmonds and P. Russell, eds., Tome: Studies in Medieval History and Law in Honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards (Woodbridge, 2011), 125–134.
- ‘An Insular tradition of ecclesiastical law: fifth to eighth century’, Anglo-Saxon/Irish Relations before the Vikings, eds. J. Graham-Campbell and M. Ryan, Proceedings of the British Academy 157 (Oxford, 2009), 23–46.
- ‘Aspects of the Breton transmission of the Hibernensis’, La Bretagne carolingienne, ed. J.-L. Deuffic, Pecia 12 (Saint-Denis, 2008), 27–44.
- ‘‘Libelli et commentarii aliorum’: The Hibernensis and the Breton Bishops’, in K. Ritari and A. Bergholm, eds., Approaches to Religion and Mythology in Celtic Studies (Newcastle, 2008), 100–119.
- ‘Dagán, Columbanus, and the Gregorian mission’, Peritia. Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland 19 (2005), 65–90.
- ‘Paschasius Radbertus and Bodleian Library, MS. Hatton 42’, Bodleian Library Record 18/4 (2004), 411–421.
- ‘The Making of the Canons of Theodore’, Peritia. Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland 17–18 (2003–2004), 121–143.
Reviews
- Review of Karen George, Gildas’s De excidio Britonum and the early British Church (Woodbridge, 2009), for The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 109 (2010), 523–525.
- Review of Thomas O’Loughlin, Adomnán and the Holy Places (London, 2007), for The Irish Theological Quarterly 73 (2008), 403–406.
- Review of P. Ní Chatháin and M. Richter, eds., Ireland and Europe in the Early Middle Ages: text and transmission (Dublin, 2002), for Éigse. A Journal of Irish Studies 35 (2005), 169–172.
- Review of Malcolm Lambert, Christians and Pagans. The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede (New Haven, 2010) for The English Historical Review. Forthcoming.
- Review of Richard Hoggett, The Archaeology of the East Anglian Conversion (Woodbridge, 2010) for The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Forthcoming.