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: the Anglo-Saxon Charters of Bury St Edmunds Abbey; writing a biography of Æthelstan, the first English monarch. Co-editing (with Chase Robinson), The Oxford History of Historical Writing, II 600-1400; and with Nancy Partner, The Sage Handbook of Historical Theory.

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)
The historiography of the Anglo-Saxon “nation-state”’, in Power and the Nation, ed. Len Scales and Oliver Zimmer (Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 125-42
‘Finding the meaning of form: narrative in annals and chronicles’, in Writing Medieval History, ed. Nancy Partner (Hodder Arnold, 2005), pp. 88-108

Hobbies
Travel, music, wine and laughter

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