Professor Sarah Foot
Qualifications
MA, PhD (Cambridge)
Role or Position
Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History
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Academic Background
Educated at Newnham College Cambridge. Research Fellow then Fellow and Tutor, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1989-93; Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor of Early Medieval History at University of Sheffield, 1993-2007.
Undergraduate Teaching
History of the Western Church, 1050-1350; The English Church and Mission, 597-754
Research Interests
Medieval monasticism, particularly Anglo-Saxon monasteries, women and religion and the Cistercians. Wider interests in the early medieval Church and society and the invention of the English and in historiography and historical theory. Current projects: An edition of the Anglo-Saxon Charters of Bury St Edmunds Abbey for the British Academy, with Kathryn A Lowe. The Oxford History of Historical Writing, II 600-1400, edited with Chase F. Robison (in press: Oxford University Press, 2012); and with Nancy Partner, The Sage Handbook of Historical Theory (for publication in 2013)
Publications include
Veiled Women: the Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo-Saxon England (2 vols, Ashgate, 2000)
Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England c. 600-900 (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Æthelstan: the First English Monarch (Yale University Press, 2011)
‘Plenty, Portents and Plague: Anglo-Saxon Readings of the Natural World’, in The Church and the Natural World, ed. Peter Clarke and Tony Claydon, Studies in Church History 46 (2010), pp. 15-41
‘Church and Monastery in Bede’s Northumbria’, in The Cambridge Companion to Bede, ed. Scott De Gregorio (Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 54-68
Hobbies
Travel, music, wine and laughter
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