Dr. Martin Ryan, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Manc)

Teaching Associate in Early Medieval History [Anglo-Saxon history]

Photo of Dr. Martin Ryan

Email: m.ryan@sheffield.ac.uk

Room: 1 Clarkehouse Road: C2 | Telephone: 0114 22 22571


Biography

Dr. Martin Ryan joined the department in 2007 having taught at the universities of Manchester, Liverpool, and Liverpool Hope. He submitted his PhD on property and power in pre-Viking England to the University of Manchester in 2005.



Research

Current Research
Martin's current research focuses on the impact of Christianity and the Church on Anglo-Saxon society and culture. He is preparing papers on concepts of violence and inequality in pre-Viking England, particularly in the exegesis of the Venerable Bede, and on the use of charters in the construction of kingship in seventh-century Kent.

Research Interests
Dr. Ryan is part of a research group that brings together historians and anthropologists from European and American universities to explore violence and its regulation in medieval societies. He is also currently taking part in a series of Leverhulme Trust funded workshops and conferences that focus on the legacy of the historian Wilhelm Levison and the interactions between Anglo-Saxon England and the Continent.



Administrative Roles and Responsibilities

  • Module Leader: HST204, HST258

  • Seminar Tutor: HST202, HST3000



Selected Publications

  • N. J. Higham & M. J. Ryan, The Anglo-Saxon World (Yale, forthcoming 2011)

  • N. J. Higham & M. J. Ryan, eds, Anglo-Saxon Landscapes: I Written Landscapes: Names, Bounds and Renders (Boydell, forthcoming 2009)

  • N. J. Higham & M. J. Ryan, eds, Anglo-Saxon Landscapes: II Landscape History and Archaeology (Boydell, forthcoming 2009)

  • '"That dreary old question": Revisiting the Early Anglo-Saxon Hide' in Higham and Ryan, eds, Anglo-Saxon Landscapes I

  • 'Latin Learning and Christian Art in Britain and Ireland, c. 500-750' in P. Stafford, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Britain and Ireland in the Early Middle Ages (Blackwell, forthcoming 2008)

  • '"Ad sedem episcopalem reddantur": Bishops, Monks, and Monasteries in the Diocese of Worcester in the Eighth Century' in K. Cooper & J. Gregory, eds, Discipline and Diversity: Studies in Church History 43 (Boydell, 2007), pp. 114-129


Reviews in Early Medieval Europe, Landscape History, and Medieval Archaeology.
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28 November 07