Dr Lesley Abrams

Name and Title

Dr Lesley Abrams

Qualifications

BA, MA (Oxford), BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)

Academic Positions

Lecturer in History, Brasenose College, and Fellow of Balliol College

Academic Background and Previous Positions

1996-2000: Lecturer, Department of History and Welsh History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

1991-1995: Faculty Lecturer, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge

Undergraduate Teaching Areas

British and continental early medieval history, especially Anglo-Saxon England and the Viking World

Graduate Teaching Areas

As above

Research Interests

Conversion to Christianity; overseas settlements of the Scandinavian diaspora during the Viking Age

Publications

2004-9

- ‘Conversion and the Church in Viking-Age Ireland', Proceedings of the Fifteenth Viking Congress, ed. J. Sheehan et al. (forthcoming Dec. 2009)

- ‘Early Religious Practice in the Greenland Settlement', Journal of the North Atlantic special vol. 2 (2009), 52-65

- ‘King Edgar and the Men of the Danelaw', in Edgar, King of the English 959-975. New Interpretations, ed. D. Scragg (Woodbridge, 2008), pp. 171-91

- ‘Germanic Christianities, 600-1100', Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 3, ed. T. Noble and J.M.H. Smith (Cambridge, 2008), pp. 107-29

- ‘Conversion and the Church in the Hebrides in the Viking Age - a Very Difficult Thing Indeed', in West Over Sea. Studies in Scandinavian Sea-borne Expansion and Settlement, ed. B. Ballin-Smith et al. (Leiden, 2007), pp. 169-94

- ‘Scandinavian Place-Names and Settlement-History: Flegg, Norfolk', Vikings and Norse in the North Atlantic, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Viking Congress, ed. A. Mortensen and S. Arge (Torshavn, 2005), pp. 307-22

- ‘Les fondations scandinaves en angleterre', Les fondations scandinaves en Occident et les débuts du duché de Normandie, ed. P. Bauduin et al. (Caen, 2005), pp 133-44

- ‘Place-Names and the History of Scandinavian Settlement in England', Land, Sea and Home, ed. J. Hines et al. (Leeds, 2004), pp. 379-431 (with David N. Parsons)

Other

FSA (Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries)and FRHistS (Fellow of the Royal Historical Society)

E-mail

lesley.abrams@balliol.ox.ac.uk  

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