Dr Ryan Lavelle, Lecturer
Ryan Lavelle gained his first degree at Royal Holloway, University of London, and an MA in Medieval Studies at the University of York. He studied for a PhD at Winchester, which he was awarded in 2002.
My research interests include royal landholding in Anglo-Saxon Wessex (for which I have a monograph based on my PhD research), the politics of the late Anglo-Saxon kingdom and early medieval warfare. I am currently preparing a volume for Boydell and Brewer's Warfare in History Series, provisionally titled Alfred's Wars: Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age. I would be pleased to supervise PhD projects associated with these areas and am happy to discuss them with prospective postgraduate students.
My teaching interests include Anglo-Saxon England, the Normans and the Norman Conquest, and the Carolingian Renaissance.
I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and am a committee member of the Winchester branch of the Historical Association, as well as the Centre for Wessex History and Archaeology, for which I am the general editor of the Wessex Historical Databases. I am also a member of the Haskins Society for Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Angevin and Viking History and De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History.
Ryan.Lavelle@winchester.ac.uk
01962 827137 (internal 7137); Medecroft room 318
Books
Royal Estates in Anglo-Saxon Wessex: Land, Politics and Family Strategies, British Archaeological Reports British Series 439 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2007)
Aethelred II: King of the English, 978-1016 (Stroud: Tempus, 2002; revised edition, 2008)
Fortifications in Wessex, c.800-1066 (Oxford: Osprey, 2003) [64-page booklet]
Articles/ Chapters
‘The Politics of Rebellion: The Ætheling Æthelwold and West Saxon Royal Succession, 899-902’, in P. Skinner (ed.), Challenging the Boundaries of Medieval History: the Legacy of Timothy Reuter, Studies in the Early Middle Ages 22 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), 51-80
‘A Territorial Landscape: The Late Anglo-Saxon and Post-Conquest Estates’, in B. Cunliffe, The Danebury Environs Roman Programme, Volume 1 : Overview (Oxford: Institute of Archaeology, 2008), 133-57
‘The King's Wife and Family Property Strategies: Late Anglo-Saxon Wessex, 871-1066’, Anglo-Norman Studies 29 (2007), 84-99
‘The Use and Abuse of Hostages in Later Anglo-Saxon England’, Early Medieval Europe 13.3 (2006), 269-96 [link available via Blackwell synergy website; please email for a pdf copy]
‘Why Grateley? Reflections on Anglo-Saxon Kingship in a Hampshire Landscape’, Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 60 (2005), 154-69 [click here for a pdf copy]
‘All the King’s Men? Land and Royal Service in Eleventh-Century Wessex’, Southern History 26 (2004), 1-37
‘Review Article: Documenting Winchester’s Minsters’, Southern History 26 (2004), 141-50
‘The “Farm of One Night” and the Organisation of Royal Estates in Late Anglo-Saxon Wessex’, Haskins Society Journal 14 (2005 for 2003), 53-82
‘Towards a Political Contextualization of Peacemaking and Peace Agreements in Anglo-Saxon England’, in D. Wolfthal (ed.), Peace and Negotiation: Strategies for Coexistence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 4 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000), 39-55
Forthcoming
‘Geographies of Power in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: The Royal Estates of Wessex’, in A.D. Jorgensen (ed.), Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Language, Literature, History, Studies in the Early Middle Ages 23 (Turnhout: Brepols)
Other publications
Entries on works concerning King Æthelred II, Earl Godwine of Wessex, King Edward the Martyr and a review of general works on Anglo-Saxon England for D. Loades (ed.), Reader’s Guide to British History (New York and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003)
‘Ethnic Cleansing in Anglo-Saxon England’ [on the St Brice’s Day Massacre, 1002], BBC History Magazine 3:11 (November 2002), 42-4
‘The Bayeux Tapestry: Images of Battle in the Eleventh Century’, Osprey Military Journal 4:3 (2002), 7-10
‘Æthelwold of Wessex: “King of the Pagans”’, Osprey Military Journal 2:6 (2000), 15-24