Barbara Yorke

Barbara Anne Elizabeth Yorke (* 1951 ) is a British medievalist .

After earning a bachelor's degree in history and archeology from the University of Exeter in 1975 , a master’s degree in archive administration at the University of Liverpool followed the following year . In 1979 she received her doctorate at her first alma mater with a thesis on Anglo-Saxon Kingship in Practice, 400-899 . From 1977 she was a lecturer at the University of Winchester and since 2001 professor of early medieval history there. She has now retired.

As her research area she gives the early medieval British history, in particular the royalty, religion and conversion, Wessex and the life of women, as well as "Anglo-Saxonism" of the 19th century.

She is married to Robert Yorke, an archivist at the London College of Arms and a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .

Works

• Wessex in the early Middle Ages (Studies in the Early History of Britain) , Continuum, 1995, ISBN 978-0718518561 .
• Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England . Routledge, London-New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-415-16639-3 . PDF (6.2 MB)
• Bishop Aethelwold: His Career and Influence . The Boydell Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0851157054
• The Anglo-Saxons . Sutton, 1999. ISBN 978-0750922203
• Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses . Continuum International, 2003, ISBN 0826460402
• The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 600-800 . Longman, 2006, ISBN 0582772923

Web links

• Presentation on the University of Winchester website