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Richard P. Abels, Professor Medieval History, Anglo-Saxon History Email: abels@usna.edu Education: Recent Publications: "King Alfred the Great and his Biographers: Images and Imagination." In David Bates, Julia Crick, and Sarah Hamilton (eds), Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250: Essays in Honour of Frank Barlow. Boydel and Brewer, 2006. "Cowardice and Duty in Anglo-Saxon England." Journal of Medieval Military History 4 (2006). "A Lying Legacy? A Preliminary Discussion of Images of Antiquity and Altered Reality in Medieval Military History." Journal of Medieval Military History 3 (2005) (with Stephen Morillo) "Alfred the Great, the micelhaethen here and the viking threat." In Timothy Reuter, ed., Alfred the Great: Papers from the Eleventh-Centenary Conferences. Aldershot, Hants.: Ashgate, 2003. "Royal Succession and the Growth of Political Stability in Ninth-Century Wessex." Haskins Society Journal: Studies in Medieval History. 12 (2002 for 2003). "From Alfred to Harold II: The Military Failure of the Late Anglo-Saxon State." In The Normans and their Adversaries (2001).
Monographs: Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Ninth-Century England (Longman, 1998) Lordship and Military Obligation in Anglo-Saxon England (University of California, 1988). Co-edited with Barnard S. Bachrach: The Normans and their Adversaries: Essays in Memory of C. Warren Hollister (Boydell and Brewer, 2001).
Current Research:
Research has focused on the
military history of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England
from the eighth through the eleventh century. Currently working on a book about
the influences of culture on the practice and
representation of warfare in the Middle Ages, 500-1500. |
