Barbara Yorke

She is currently emeritus professor of early Medieval history at the University of Winchester, and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[1] Yorke started postgraduate study in 1973, supervised by Barlow and the early modern historian Professor Ivan Roots.Her thesis, “Anglo-Saxon Kingship in Practice 400–899”, was examined in 1978 by Henry Loyn, and the work "broke new ground in its consideration of the historical development of royal genealogies as well as opening up new lines of enquiry in the study of often fragmentary, laconic sources".[4] Some of the papers were published along with additional material as a Festschrift, The Land of the English Kin, edited by Ryan Lavelle and Alexander Langlands, both former students of Yorke.[4] Yorke has made important contributions to the post-medieval reception of the Middle Ages, otherwise known as 'medievalism', especially concerning how the reputation and public image of King Alfred has developed from the post-Conquest period, through the Victorian era, to the present – a phenomenon she terms 'Alfredism'.
Alma materExeter UniversityHistoryUniversity of WinchesterFRHistSAnglo-SaxonEngland19th-century Anglo-Saxonismemeritus professorRoyal Historical SocietyUniversity College LondonHorsham High School for GirlsProfessor Frank BarlowLady Aileen FoxHenry LoynToller LectureFestschriftmedievalismBBC HistoryUniversity of ManchesterWayback Machine