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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 ...
Patrick Sims-Williams viewed the battle as being echoed in a territorial dispute between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the abbess of Cookham Abbey (named Cynethryth, probably the widow of Offa): Offa had taken the abbey and its lands, apparently by winning the Battle of Bensington, including land claimed not by the West-Saxon kings but by ...
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 ...
Eadfrith is known to history mainly through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript, [10] but also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle [11] and the Catalogus sanctorum pausantium in Anglia. [12] Eadfrith died in 675 [13] and was buried in Leominster. His feast day is on 26 October. [14]
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.
The Anglo-Saxon Landscape: The Kingdom of the Hwicce. Sims-Williams, Patrick (2004). ... Sims-Williams, Patrick (1990). Religion and Literature in Western England ...
This consensus was prominently questioned in 1983 by Patrick Sims-Williams, who argued that the Chronicle account could not be relied on as a true account of sixth-century events, and that it could rather reflect later inventions intended to support later political and territorial claims by the West-Saxon kings.
The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England. A Study of West Saxon and East Anglian Cults. Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 4. Cambridge University Press. Sims-Williams, Patrick (1990). Religion and Literature in Western England, 600-800. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 3. Cambridge University Press.