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Sims-Williams was educated at Borden Grammar School in Sittingbourne, Kent. [1] He took a B.A. at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, achieving upper-second-class honours in the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic tripos in 1972, [3] followed by a PhD at the University of Birmingham. [4]: 35 n. 130 His twin brother Nicholas Sims-Williams is a scholar of Central ...
By the early 1980s, a new wave of source-criticism was underway regarding the fifth-to-seventh centuries in Britain, and the Battle of Deorham was prominently tackled by Patrick Sims-Williams. [1] He noted that the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle shows no signs of being a contemporary record for the sixth century and many signs of being a later ...
The etymology of the name has been studied most thoroughly by John Insley, who concluded that cognate forms of the name Oisc are found in Old Saxon (Ōsic, alongside the corresponding weak noun Ōsica), [1] to which later scholarship possibly adds the runic inscription on a shield boss dating from between 150 and 220 CE found on Thorsberg moor ...
Department of Anglo-Saxon and Kindred Studies 1967-71 (Faculty of English) Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 1971-(Faculty of English) Michael Lapidge: 1974-98 Patrick Sims-Williams: 1977-93 c. 1970 David N. Dumville: 1977-2005 [14] c. 1970 Simon Keynes: 1978-2019 c. 1970 Paul Bibire: 1985-99 Andy Orchard: 1991-2000 [15] 1983 Erich ...
However, Barbara Yorke, Patrick Sims-Williams, and David Dumville, among others, have demonstrated how a number of features of the Regnal List and Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the fifth and sixth centuries clearly contradict the idea that they constitute a reliable record.
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The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List on folio 1r of Cambridge Corpus Christi College MS 173 (also known as the Parker Chronicle). The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List (also known as the West Saxon Regnal Table, West Saxon Regnal List, and Genealogical Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) is the name given in modern scholarship to a list of West-Saxon kings (which has no title in its ...
Eynsham's name is first attested in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which took its present form in the later ninth century, as Egonesham. (The Chronicle portrays the settlement as one of four captured by a West Saxon named Cuthwulf in 571 CE following the Battle of Bedcanford. The historicity of the battle is, however, in doubt.)